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field notes is the magazine for contemporary music in Berlin. As a print and online resource, it reports on current developments and events in the fields of new music, Echtzeitmusik and improvisation, music theater and opera, electronic and electro-acoustic music as well as sound art. All previous issues can also be read in digital form under »Editions«.

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Releases of the Month | May to September 2023

Kristoffer Cornils presents new releases by Marginal Consort, Ehsan Saboohi, Theo Nabicht and his Circle Line project, Aleksandra Słyż and many more.

Interview | Jessie Cox on Multidimensional Spaces, Creolity, and Opacity

Composer and drummer Jessie Cox talks multidimensional spaces, creolity, opacity, and pop with Elisa Erkelenz ahead of the next edition of Outernational.

Interview | Monthati Masebe on Sound Healing and Indigenous Instruments

Monthati Masebe talks sound healing, Indigenous instruments and collective composition with Elisa Erkelenz ahead of a new edition of Outernational.

Christian Wolff at AngelicA Festival Bologna 2022 by Massimo Golfieri

Interview | »I don’t deliberately try to change«

Christian Wolff talks about changes in more than 70 years of compositional practice, the dialogue between score and the performers and the portrait concert »Metal & Breath«.

CD's in denen sich Himmel und Wolken spiegeln

Releases of the Month | Releases of the Month May 2023

Kristoffer Cornils discusses new albums by Kevin Drumm, Christina Kubisch, Anna Schimkat, The Skull Mask, Nakibembe Embaire Group, among others.

Feature | Morphine Raum #32

While everything else was moving into the digital realm, and culture was increasingly drifting to the outskirts, Rabih Beaini created a space for encounters, right in the middle of the city. Since the spring of 2020, Morphine Raum (Morphine Room or Space) has become one of the most excitin...