Music

Goodbye UK – and Thank You for the Music

2018, Jul 27 — Aug 18

Wassermusik

Goodbye UK – and Thank You for the Music
Concerts, films, talks

In 2018, Wassermusik takes the Brexit as an opportunity to pay homage to the extraordinary musical creativity that made the United Kingdom the world’s leading pop nation, alongside the US, in terms of music as well as thought, fashion, style and other concepts. Entitled Goodbye UK – and Thank You for the Music, the festival traces the “Britishness” of pop music and investigates its mode of action.

2018, Oct 18 — 21

100 Years of Copyright

Concerts, talks, films, installations, performances, publication

A titanic struggle is currently raging over copyright. Publishers, labels and production companies battle the representatives of the digital economy over exploitation and remuneration. In this conflict, where are the interests of the artists? What about those of consumers with their desire to use high quality cultural goods? 100 Years of Copyright investigates the evolution of copyright since the birth of the cultural industry, concepts of intellectual property and artistic freedom. Initially intended as a research project, it will culminate in the fall of 2018 with concerts, talks, films, installations and performances.

2018, Nov 01 — Dec 10

Radiophonic Spaces

Walk-in radio space, experimental archive, sound studio and stage

What does an archive of radio art sound like? How do we hear and how does hearing establish our knowledge, our experience of the present and the world? Based on the results of a multi-year research project, Nathalie Singer, a radio writer and professor of experimental radio at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, and a team of radio researchers are producing a radiophonic room designed by the artist, architect and musician Cevdet Erek. Visitors can enter it to individually hear and explore more than 200 works of international radio art.

2015–2018

Technosphärenklänge

The omnipresent, increasingly intelligent device-world is becoming networked to form ever larger infrastructures. How can music respond to the complex intertwining of natural, social and technical processes

Past Projects

2018, Apr 26 — 29

100 Years of Beat

Concerts, DJ sets, talks, films, performances, installations

The first drum set came on the market in 1918 and triggered a musical revolution: It took over urban dance music and established the triad of bass drum, snare and hi-hat as the combination used the world over. While percussion in European music had long only had an embellishing function, now the drummed backbeat became the heartbeat of music. In others words, African diasporic beat practices in North America and the Caribbean completely realigned European-defined music.

2017, Nov 09 — 12

No! Music

Theme Days
Concerts, films, talks, installations

When there are no more gaps in the system, negation is the last resort. No! Music is searching for dissent in music: artists who work counter to the music industry, musicians who explore discomfort in the face of market mechanisms, or who even experiment with the negation of sound itself; and sounds that are not allowed to be heard – censored and forbidden music.

2017, Jul 21 — Aug 13

Wassermusik X

Festival
Concerts, films, talks

This summer festival held on the loveliest rooftop terrace in all of Berlin celebrates its tenth anniversary. This year’s Wassermusik is dedicated to all those musicians who have given us special moments over the last years, and to all those who have been in the program but were unable to make it to Berlin.

2017, Apr 06 — 09

Free! Music

Concerts, films, talks

How free can music be? Musicians, thinkers and artists dealt with this question in a variety of contexts in the twentieth century. Music should be free and should be freed again and again: freed of the restrictions that tonality or notational systems impose upon it, freed of the limitations of conventional instruments.

Music

Wassermusik

100 Years of Copyright

Radiophonic Spaces

Technosphärenklänge

Past Projects

100 Years of Beat

No! Music

Wassermusik X

Free! Music

Gilberto Gil & Amigos: Refavela 40

Program

The HKW

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Social Web

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