MUSIC IN THE CLOUD

Music Section, Akademie der Künste 

Has music has retreated into a cloud, which follows us wherever we go? It seems to be always available from the cloud. In the context of this exhibition, the "music in the cloud" project offers a broad spectrum of things that show how sound and urban space can interact on an artistic level.

The program presents compositions specially created for eight cultural locations in Berlin, where they can only be heard on smartphones and GPS. The city can also be explored from the perspective of an ear in sound installations and a listening room at Hanseatenweg (8th to 19th May). Ludger Brümmer’s "urban voice" installation can be heard on the foyer staircase during the exhibition. Two evening concerts on 17th and 18th May examine selected locations, their aura and atmosphere in a unique way, augmented by lectures and discussions with experts and artists.
 
In collaboration with ZKM | Institut für Musik und Akustik, DISK Berlin, radio aporee, raumlabor berlin
 
Curated by the members of the Music Section
Ludger Brümmer, Nicolaus A. Huber, Enno Poppe, Manos Tsangaris as well as Evelyn Hansen and Carsten Seiffarth
 
 
• 15th March – 26th May
Sound installation "urban voice" by Ludger Brümmer
 
• 1st – 31st May
Music from the Cloud: eight site-specific acoustic performances for smartphone Places: Tempelhofer Feld / Prinzessinnengärten Moritzplatz / Mellowpark / ZK/U Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik / ExRotaprint / DOCK 11 EDEN***** / RADIALSYSTEM V/ Kotti-Shop u.a. projects at Kottbusser Tor  www.wolkenmusik.de
 
• 8th – 19th May
Audio space: "atmospheres" by a number of composers, and sound installations by Peter Ablinger, Christina Kubisch
 
• 17th May
7pm
Lecture: Gernot Böhme "Klang-Atmosphären in Stadt und Architektur",
[Sound Atmospheres in Cities and Architecture] Discussion with Gernot Böhme, Peter Ablinger, and Matthias Sauerbruch
Discussion hosted by Raoul Mörchen

• 17th May
9pm
Concert
Films, videos and works by Walter Ruttmann / Pierre Henry, Thomas Köner, Robert Lippok
 
• 18th May
5pm
Lecture: Manos Tsangaris, "Different Conceptions of the Public"
Discussion with Manos Tsangaris, Carsten Stabenow, Arno Brandlhuber
Discussion hosted by Raoul Mörchen

• 18th May                            
7pm
Concert 
Compositions by Ondrej Adámek, Mark Andre, Georges Aperghis, Georg Friedrich Haas, Nicolaus A. Huber, Bernhard Lang, Luigi Nono, Hans Wüthrich – Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin
 

Admission is free, excluding concerts 17th and 18th May (€ 10/5)