Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg © Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk
7 May – 8 Aug
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Audio Tour

Memories in Music II Outdoor Audio Walks

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Life is Impossible without Forgetting. Photo montage: Tony Elieh
Friday, 6 Aug
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Sound Installation

6 pm – 8 pm

Memories in Music II Life is Impossible without Forgetting

Opening, sound installation by Tony Elieh

Free admission

7 – 8 Aug Installations
Opening hours:
Sat 7 Aug 2021, 4 – 8 pm
Sun 8 Aug 2021, 12 – 6 pm

€ 5/3 (Five varied audio-visual installations and one live performance)

Doppelbelichtung © Carola Bauckholt
6 – 8 Aug
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Installations

Memories in Music II Installations

With works by Carola Bauckholt, Tony Elieh, Carlos Gutiérrez, Guilherme Vaz and Walter Zimmermann

Opening hours:
Fri 6 Aug 2021, 6 – 8 pm
Sat 7 Aug 2021, 4 – 8 pm
Sun 8 Aug 2021, 12 – 6 pm

On the concert days on 6 and 7 August 2021, the installations are included in the day tickets

€ 5/3 (Single ticket)

€ 17/15 (Day pass)

Voice Affairs, Video Still © Panos Aprahamian
Friday, 6 Aug
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Concert

8 pm

Memories in Music II Voice Affairs – Focus Lebanon

Works by Panos Aprahamian, Dániel Péter Biró, Manolis Manousakis, Aya Metwalli, Samir Odeh-Tamimi, Youmna Saba, Raed Yassin and Cynthia Zaven

With Aya Metwalli, Youmna Saba, Manolis Manousakis, Raed Yassin, Panos Aprahamian and Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart

€ 17/15 (incl. late night concert subject to availability)

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Calamita. Photo © Mark Khalife
Friday, 6 Aug
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Concert

11 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio Lobby

Memories in Music II Late Night Concert – Focus Lebanon: Calamita

Sharif Sehnaoui: electric guitar
Tony Elieh: electric bass
Malek Rizkallah: drums
Aya Metwalli: vocals

Free admission (subject to availability)

Still listening II © Annesley Black; www.oldcrow.ca
Saturday, 7 Aug
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Concert

8 pm

Memories in Music II ensemble mosaik

Works by Annesley Black, Leopold Hurt, Petros Ovsepyan, Annette Schmucki and Walter Zimmermann

With Annesley Black, Leopold Hurt, Magnus Loddgard and ensemble mosaik

€ 17/15 (day pass)

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Zafraan Ensemble. Photo © Neda Navaee
Friday, 27 Aug
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Concert

8 pm

Winter Music – Tragedy Summer Time Version

Concert with works by Eberhard Grosskopf, Isabel Mundry, Rebecca Saunders, Hans Wüthrich, Helmut Zapf

Music: Zafraan Ensemble

€ 13/7

Zafraan Ensemble. Photo © Neda Navaee
Saturday, 28 Aug
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Concert

8 pm

Winter Music – Tragedy Summer Time Version

Concert with works by Vinko Globokar, Nikolaus A. Huber, Rolf Riehm, Steffen Schleiermacher and Cornelius Schwehr

Music: Zafraan Ensemble

€ 13/7

Please find below the Akademie der Künste's digital offers.

Paul and Eslanda Robeson with their son Paul Jr. in front of their house in Enfield, Connecticut, beginning 1940th. Photo: Frank Bauman, FrankBauman.com © Akademie der Künste, Paul-Robeson-Archiv

DIGITAL

Discussion

Resonating Struggles: Paul and Eslanda Robeson in East Berlin

Discussion with Matana Roberts, George Lewis, Doreen Mende and Kira Thurman

In English

Live stream from 1 June 2021

ECOEIN, photo: Gilmar Gonzales

DIGITAL

Concert

Memories in Music Naturvölker

First broadcast of the film production Naturvölker by Carlos Gutierrez, with ECOEIN, Ute Wassermann, Sabine Vogel

Live-Performance in the outdoor area of the Akademie der Künste by Tony Buck and Naturvölker by Carlos Gutierrez with Sharon Mercado, Jorge Villaseca, Sabine Vogel, Ute Wassermann

Live stream from 9 May 2021 on YouTube and Facebook

Três Sóis, Plástica Sonora von Walter Smetak (1969, Replica 2017), Foto: Albrecht Hotz

DIGITAL

Concert

Memories in Music Brazil – Europe

First broadcast of the film productions Anestesia by Walter Smetak / Marco Scarassatti and Luiz Pretti and Dialoge by Thomas Kessler, with Ensemble Modern and Silvia Ocougne

Live performances in the outdoor area of the Akademie der Künste by Ute Wassermann & Sabine Vogel, Silvia Ocougne and Guilherme Vaz

Live stream from 8 May 2021 on YouTube and Facebook

Maja S.K. Ratkje & Katarina Barruk © Sofie Verstad

DIGITAL

Concert

Memories in Music Avant Joik

Premiere of the film production Avant Joik by and with Maja S. K. Ratkje, Katarina Barruk, Matti Aikio

Live performances at Akademie der Künste by Annette Schmucki / Ernst Surberg und Tony Buck / Tony Elieh

Live stream from 7 May 2021 on YouTube and Facebook

Cobourg Nets, Research Trip. Photo: Kirsten Reese

DIGITAL

Opening Concert

Memories in Music Leichhardt in Australien

Festival opening and live streaming of the concert Leichhardt in Australien with works by Kirsten Reese and Erkki Veltheim and the Ensemble Adapter on the Internet

Live stream from 6 May 2021 on YouTube and Facebook

Annett Gröschner. Photo: Susanne Schleyer

DIGITAL

Award Ceremony

Berlin Art Prize – Jubilee Endowment 1848/1948

Video on demand

Award ceremony for Annett Gröschner, Sajan Mani, HARQUITECTES, Petra Strahovnik, Lea Schneider, Gina Haller and Susann Maria Hempel, presented by Jeanine Meerapfel, Michael Müller

In German and English

Subharchord. Photo © Kai Bienert

DIGITAL

Virtual Exhibition

Music, Makers & Machines

A digital exhibition on the history of the Studio for Electroacoustic Music at the Akademie der Künste

Recording of the non-public concert on 13 May 2020 as part of "Labor Beethoven 2020" at the Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz, Black Box, with Ensemble Adapter, Uli Fussenegger, Anda Kryeziu, Chris Moy. Photo: Mutesouvenir-kb © Kai Bienert

DIGITAL

Virtual Festival & Virtual Exhibition

Labor Beethoven 2020

With Ensemble Adapter, Novoflot, Werner Cee, Uli Fussenegger, Alice Belugou, Zoé Pouri, et al.

Georg Katzer, workshop of electroacoustic music, Kontakte I, 1980, Konrad-Wolf-Saal, East German Academy of Arts © Akademie der Künste, Photo: Christian Kraushaar

DIGITAL

Online Presentation

Video presentation in honour of Georg Katzer, founder of the Studio for Electroacoustic Music

The Akademie der Künste remembers composer Georg Katzer (1935–2019) with a series of videos released on its YouTube channel. Katzer was one of the pioneers of electroacoustic music in the GDR and founded the Studio for Electroacoustic Music at the Academy of the Arts in 1980.