- Event
- Symposium
next_generation XI – On Artistic Processes and Sonic Activism
Thu, June 18 – Fri, June 19, 2026
- Location
- Lecture Hall
- Language
- German
- English
As Europe’s largest gathering of university studios for electronic music, next_generation offers emerging composers a platform to present their latest musical developments.
The symposium On Artistic Processes and Sonic Activism complements the festival program and focuses on current artistic, social, and technological issues. Artists, researchers, and students explore the interrelations between sound art, social engagement, and artistic production processes.
Symposium
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Thursday, June 18
Panel 1 – Algorhythms and Live-Coding
1:30 pmThis panel examines live coding, machine learning, and hybrid programming environments as practices of intervening in algorithmic systems, situated between technical infrastructure and performative agency.
- Orm Finnendahl (HfMDK Frankfurt am Main)
New perspectives on Live-Coding – Hybrid programming concepts and performance practice using Clamps - Artem Sivashenko (IEM Graz)
Augmented Flow: The Artist as Thin Client in Neural Latent Spaces - Xiao Fu (HfMT Hamburg)
Fluidity - Götz Dipper (ZKM | Hertzlab) & Ludger Brümmer (HfM Trossingen & former head of ZKM | Hertzlab)
20 Jahre Klangdom und Zirkonium am ZKM | Karlsruhe
Panel 2 – Sonic Activism and Dissent
3 pmContributions in this panel explore how sonic practices, from the no-input mixer to geolocated compositions, become tools for political organizing, shapeshifting human perspectives and remembrance.
- Tobias Rüetschi (HKB Bern)
the No-Input Mixing Board (NIMB) as a form of sonic activism - Carmen Kleykens Vida (HfMT Hamburg)
(Titel N.N.) - Gianluca Verlingieri (METS Cuneo)
Geolocated Composition and the Sonic Memory of Resistance - Jiyoung Yoon (Guest Artist, Global Sonic Research)
Listening as a Way of Relating - Field Recording, Spatial Sound, and the Question of Connection
- Orm Finnendahl (HfMDK Frankfurt am Main)
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Friday, June 19
Panel 3 – Urban Ecologies and Institutional Spaces
1 pmThis panel centers on urban natures, clubs, and universities as sites where new publics, ecological alliances, and democratic practices are tested and enacted through sound.
- Julia Nordholz (HfMT Hamburg)
Parlament der Bäume – Technologien des Zuhörens und neue Zugänge zur urbanen Stadtnatur - Eda Er (HEAR Strasbourg)
The Voice of Water: Fluidity as a Practice of Refusal - Gabriel Saber (HfMT Hamburg)
Cyberwitches in the artspace: reclaiming mythology with multimedia praxis - Carmen Pomet (IEM Graz)
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Future Infrastructures
3 pmThe closing panel speculates on futures of electronic music studios, composer alliances and new spaces of exploration.
Roberto Pugliese (Fondazione Turchini)
Futures of Electronic Music Studios
Nicola Hein (MH Lübeck, DEGEM) + Tereza Carrasco (HKB Bern, DEGEM)Closing Keynote
Svetlana Maras (Electronic Studio Basel), 10 – 15 min - Julia Nordholz (HfMT Hamburg)
