GLOBALE: Performing Sound, Playing Technology

»Performing Sound, Playing Technology. A Festival on Contemporary Musical Instruments and Interfaces« provides insights into the development of innovative instruments and interfaces in the field of electronic music. A total of two concert evenings on subjects such as instrument prosthetics, established tools thought new, live coding, tinkering and dancing. In addition, research projects will be presented in a symposium, and there will also be a possibility to experiment in innovative instruments and interfaces.
 
The festival thus offers a range of perspectival approaches the objective of which is to encourage and support the critical examination of artistic and scientific potential in contemporary musical instruments, while at the same time thematizing the question of the reciprocal influence of music and technology: In what ways are new technologies applied to contemporary instruments? What references can meanwhile be made between instruments? How are they played and what kind of music is produced with them? The festival visitor traces the various perspectives of instrumentalists, developers, artists and scientists by way of theoretical and practical approaches, and thereby inspires participants to speculate on possible future scenarios.
 
One part of the festival program will be a Spatial Sound HackLab, which will be hosted together with 4DSOUND. Since 2008, 4DSOUND has developed an innovative spatial sound technology that has significantly improved and expanded the possibilities to create, perform and experience sound spatially. 4DSOUND is a fully omnidirectional sound environment, where the listener can appreciate sound in a virtually unlimited spatial continuum. Participants of the HackLab will be invited to explore new instrumental approaches, performance tools and conceptual frameworks in working with spatial sound. It will take place from 5 to 7 February 2016 at the ZKM_Media Theater.

Program

Friday, February 5 | Saturday, February 6 | Sunday, February 7

Friday, February 5, 2016

from 8 pm	Concert I Concert with performances by Peter Blasser, Fredrik Olofsson, Alberto de Campo, Hannes Hölzl, Dominik Hildebrand Marques Lopes, Amelie Hinrichsen and Till Bovermann	ZKM_Cube
	Concert II Concert with performances by Bjørnar Habbestad , Michael Fischer and Yen Tzu Chang	ZKM_Cube

Saturday, February 6, 2016

10 am–1 pm	Symposium Session I Lectures by 3Patrick Borgeat, Juan Romero, 3DMIN and Chikashi Miyama	ZKM_Lecture Hall
3 pm–6 pm	Symposium Session II Lectures by Atau Tanaka, Peter Blasser and Marco Donnarumma	ZKM_Lecture Hall
from 8 pm	Concert III Concert with performances by Atau Tanaka, Marco Donnarumma, Stelios Manousakis and Chikashi Miyama	ZKM_Cube
	Concert IV Concert by Benoît and the Mandelbrots Afterwards: DJ-Set with Jago	ZKM_Music Balcony

Sunday, February 7, 2016

10 am–11 am	Symposium Session III Lectures by Diana Cardoso, Stelios Manousakis and the ZKM | Institute for Music and Acoustics	ZKM_Lecture Hall
11 am–1 pm	Panel Discussion	ZKM_Lecture Hall
from 2 pm	Concert V Presentation of the results and performances of the 4DSOUND Hacklab	ZKM_Media Theater