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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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© Stefanie Kulisch

Feature | Giada Dalla Bontà: Sonic Agency in unsustainable Worlds

The Dostoevskian motto Beauty will save the world, expanding from the realms of literature to philosophical and theological debates of ethico-aesthetic nature, has nowadays reached popular culture in forms of quotational knowledge printed on posters, tea mugs and home décor items.

Rabih Beaini (c) Yusuf Alazhar

Opposite editorial | Rabih Beaini

A crack in the system is never a crack, it’s a transformation. The mere fact that it surprises us when it happens is already a misinterpretation of reality. The reality is that global changes have always been the marking point in time, defining adjustments that we, as human beings, think a...

Bettina Wackernagel + ale hop (c) Heroines of Sound

Opposite editorial | Alejandra Luciana Cárdenas / Bettina Wacker

As we continue to deal with the pandemic's aftermath, Man-made catastrophe and its ever-accelerating pace has eclipsed our longings for certainty. In these dire circumstances, the possibility of being-with each other in music spaces is of great relief because music is our reliable hom...

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Glaucia Peres da Silva und Nguyễn Thanh Thủy

Interview | There is no hierarchy.

Between 21 and 25 August, musicians, sound artists and scholars will meet at the Akademie der Künste on Hanseatenweg to address the current lack of critical engagement with and sparse artistic presence of the Sonic Global South. In conversation with co-initiator and sound artist Budhaditya...

Kamila Metwaly & Berno Odo Polzer

Opposite editorial | Kamila Metwaly and Berno Odo Polzer

We’re only approaching the density of relationality that used to be called normality, sensing the necessity to relate in different and diverse ways. Hosting or attending public spaces has itself become a question of experimentation and reconfiguration. Where does the experience of the pand...

Mazen Kerbaj

Interview | Other People’s Grammar

Trumpeter Mazen Kerbaj in conversation about his new album "Sampler / Sampled" with field Notes.