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KONTAKTE 2025
Festival for Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art

Concerts, Performances, Sound Installations

In June 2025, the Studio for Electroacoustic Music will once again host the KONTAKTE Festival. The festival combines current socio-political developments with versatile contemporary sound art in a four-day dialogue.

The buildings at Hanseatenweg and Pariser Platz will be permeated by experimental sound structures and transformed into places of intensive listening.

Immersive soundscapes and experimental musical impulses merge into a multi-layered and interdisciplinary programme featuring, among others, Ensemble Ascolta, GrauSchumacher Piano Duo, Thomas Schulz and Hanna Hartman, as well as works by Tony Elieh, Hainbach, Annette Krebs, Heather Frasch, Gerriet K. Sharma and Susanne Fröhlich – and what is presumably the most extensive loudspeaker orchestra in the world to date.

 

Programme

Installations at Hanseatenweg
Hanna Hartman (MONO), Thomas Schulz and students from the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf

Runtimes:
26 Jun 7 – 11 pm
27 Jun 4 – 10 pm
28 Jun 11 am – 8 pm
29 Jun 11 am – 10 pm

Thursday, 26 Jun, Hanseatenweg

8 pm, Studio
Vortices and Children’s Songs
Ensemble Ascolta with works by Arezou Rezaei, Hugo Morales and Christian Winther Christensen

10 pm, Beech Garden (in case of bad weather: Studio Lobby)
Music for Sonic Assemblages
Annette Krebs, Heather Frasch

Friday, 27 Jun, Pariser Platz

5 – 8 pm, Exhibition Halls
Huge Crash (So-far-not-guilty)
Gerriet K. Sharma, Susanne Fröhlich

Limited number of places
Registration at kontakte@adk.de

8 pm, Black Box
Passé Composé
Tony Elieh

10 pm, Black Box
Hainbach

Saturday, 28 Jun, Hanseatenweg

6 pm, Hall 2
Hyperphonie I
Works by Bernard Parmegiani, Elżbieta Sikora, Kirsten Reese and students from the HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin, UdK Berlin, HfM Saar

8 pm, Studio
Plus or Minus
GrauSchumacher Piano Duo
SWR Experimentalstudio

Sunday, 29 Jun, Hanseatenweg

4 pm, Hall 2
Hyperphonie II
Works by Bernard Parmegiani, Elżbieta Sikora, Kirsten Reese and students from the HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin, UdK Berlin, HfM Saar

6 pm, Hall 2
DEGEM Annual concert
In cooperation with the Division of Musicology, Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation guest professorship, FU Berlin

 

Funded by

 

With kind support of the

26 — 29 Jun

Hanseatenweg &
Pariser Platz

Thur 26 Jun, Sat 28 Jun, Sun 29 Jun
Hanseatenweg

Fri 27 Jun
Pariser Platz

With Ensemble Ascolta, GrauSchumacher Piano Duo, Hanna Hartman, Thomas Schulz et al.

Compositions by Tony Elieh, Heather Frasch, Susanne Fröhlich, Hainbach, Annette Krebs, Arezou Rezaei, Gerriet K. Sharma et al.

In collaboration with DEGEM, FU Berlin, HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin, UdK Berlin, TU Berlin, HfM Saar, SWR Experimentalstudio, Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf & Ensemble Ascolta

Funded by Musikfonds e.V.

With kind support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation

Tickets
Festival: € 70/50
Concerts: € 10–15/7–9
Installations: Free admission