
Language: English
As the largest meeting of university studios for electronic music, »next_generation« offers young composers a platform to present their compositional projects and to get into conversation with each other.
From June 25–27, 2021, a special edition of the festival »next_generation« will take place daily from 6–9 pm CEST. Special edition in the sense that ZKM | Hertz-Labor does justice to the current situation, but also to the digital transformation and conducts the festival online for the first time. The »next_generation« has long been a »net_generation«, which is not least noticeable in the current dynamics in electronic music and teaching.
Together with the participating 24 university studios, we will present a diverse program over the course of three days. Because of the pandemic, conventions and routines are being called into question and dissolved to a great extent. What was familiar is disappearing and becoming a rarity. As a result, music production and education also sees itself confronted with new challenges. That is why the presentations of experimental concert contributions and performances and the audiovisual works of the university studios will represent a reflection of this transformation.
The range of topics presented and the questions being asked during the podium discussions by the students, lecturers, and university studio directors, as well as by the experts from the ZKM | Hertz-Lab, will provide an insight into the interplay of technology and art, which is a part of the current creative work of these composers.
These discussions will cover observations about the influence of artificial intelligence on the creative process, uncertainties regarding the handling of aesthetic diversity, and strategies for maintaining aesthetic continuity amid technological upheavals.
With this program, »ne(x)t_generation 8.5« offers a representative overview of the current creative work of the upcoming generation of composers in the context of technology and art and against the background of current challenges and framework conditions.
About ne(x)t_generation 8.5
Friday, June 25
6 pm CEST | Panel Discussion
Which impact does AI have on the creative process?
Participants:
Claudia Jane Scroccaro (KE Composition Student & TA of the Studio for Electronic Music at HMDK Stuttgart)
Irini Aravidou (Master Student of Multimedia Composition, HfMT Hamburg)
Prof. Dr. Christoph Seibert (Head of the Institute for Music Informatics and Musicology (IMWI), HfM Karlsruhe)
Dr. Olivier Pasquet (Composer, Music Producer, Visual Artist, currently research associate at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (ICST), ZHdK)
Dr. Daniel Bisig (Research Staff at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (ICST), currently Assistant Professor at the Coventry University)
Prof. Ludger Brümmer (Composer, Head of ZKM | Hertz-Lab & Professor of Composition for Digital Media, HfM Trossingen)
Moderation: Yannick Hofmann (ZKM | Hertz-Lab)
8.45 pm CEST | Contributions of the university studios
Saturday, June 26
6 pm CEST | Panel Discussion
Between Art Music and Pop: How do electronic studios deal with aesthetic diversity, and what might this heterogeneity add to the education process now and in the future?
Participants:
Prof. Dr. Michael Edwards (Professor of Electronic Composition at the Institute for Computer Music and Electronic Media (ICEM), Folkwang University of the Arts)
Rebecca Beauchamp (M.F.A., ex-Media: Sound, KHM Köln)
Prof. Daisuke Ishida (Professor of Sound Art, Sound Studies and Sonic Arts, UdK Berlin)
Noémi Büchi (Composer, Performer & Master Student of Electroacoustic Composition at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (ICST), ZHdK)
Prof. Orm Finnendahl (Professor & Education Director of Composition, HfMDK Frankfurt)
Moderation: Prof. Ludger Brümmer (Composer, Head of ZKM | Hertz-Lab & Professor of Composition for Digital Media, HfM Trossingen)
8 pm CEST | Contributions of the university studios
Sunday, June 27
6 pm CEST | Panel Discussion
Technological Dynamics: What strategies do universities employ to establish aesthetic continuity against a backdrop of technological disruption?
Participants:
Claudia Jane Scroccaro (KE Composition Student & TA of the Studio for Electronic Music at HMDK Stuttgart)
Rebecca Beauchamp (M.F.A., ex-Media: Sound, KHM Köln)
Kirsten Reese (Head of the UNI.K | Studio for Electroacoustic Composition, Sound Art and Sound Research, UdK Berlin)
Prof. Dr. Christoph Seibert (Head of the Institute for Music Informatics and Musicology (IMWI), HfM Karlsruhe)
Prof. Dr. Stefan Prins (Director of the Hybrid Music Lab, HfM Carl Maria von Weber Dresden)
Moderation: Prof. Ludger Brümmer (Composer, Head of ZKM | Hertz-Lab & Professor of Composition for Digital Media, HfM Trossingen)
8.15 pm CEST | Contributions of the university studios
- Website
- The Event via Livestream
- Impressum
ZKM | Hertz-Lab
Ludger Brümmer, Yannick Hofmann (Artistic Direction)
Dominik Kautz (Project & Production Management)
ZKM | Video StudioMoritz Büchner, Hauke Jörgensen, Andy Koch, Xenia Leidig, Peter Müller, Tim Wenz, Christina Zartmann (Content Processing & Editing)
Xenia Leidig (Graphic Art & Trailer Animation)
ZKM | Communication & MarketingLena Becker, Adamantia Goulandris, Sabine Jäger, Jana Kistner, Adrian Koop, Lena Schneider, Charlot Schümann, Dominika Szope
- Organization / Institution
- ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe