Labor Sonor : Translating Spaces

Dreitägiges Festival mit Symposium / three-day festival with symposium

How does a space influence our thoughts, actions and experiences? What do places and spaces offer, what do they allow, what do they demand, what do they prevent? How are spaces shaped and altered by what happens in them and with them? The festival LABOR SONOR : TRANSLATING SPACES explores the power of space in contemporary experimental music and sound art.
The motto of the festival is: Listen twice! The audience will have the opportunity to experience the same work simultaneously or consecutively in changing situations and spaces. Over three days, nine works by composers and installation artists will be presented at different venues. A symposium accompanies and explores the genesis of the works premiered at the festival – enabling artists, scholars and audience to enter into direct dialogue.

12–15 ausland
Frank Bretschneider »DREAM LIFE« Installation

12–22 Spätkauf Hutfabrik
Sabine Ercklentz »Gehörgang B für einen beliebigen Ort, Kopfhörer und 2 Ohren« Komposition für Kopfhörer

15–22 Ballhaus Ost 3. Etage
Sabine Ercklentz »Gehörgang A für einen konkreten Ort, Lautsprecher, Transducer und Publikum« Installation

15–22 Villa Elisabeth Studio 3
Alex Arteaga »Ein Dispositiv für sehr langsame ästhetische Beobachtung« Klangintervention

15-22 Ballhaus Ost IV Etage
Raed Yassin »A Small Leak of an Interior Monologue« (2021) Installation

18–22 Ballhaus Ost Saal
Frank Bretschneider »Dream Life« Performance

18–22 Villa Elisabeth
Christian Kesten »Spacing Places [Orte orten]« Performance

13–18 Villa Elisabeth Studio 1 & 2
Symposium

Matthias Haenisch & Students of Musicology (HU Berlin) | Katja Heldt | Mathias Maschat | Sarah Mauksch | Julia H. Schröder & Students of Audio Communication (TU Berlin)
Artistic Directors / Curators: Matthias Haenisch, Andrea Neumann
Co-Conception: Christian Kesten
Conference Lead Symposium LABOR DISKURS: Matthias Haenisch
Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin
Sponsors and Partners:
ausland berlin, Austrian Science Fund, Ballhaus Ost, Echoo Konferenz Dolmetschen, field notes, Königlich-Technische Hochschule Stockholm, Kulturbüro Elisabeth, Kunstuniversität Graz, Monat der zeitgenössischen Musik, Technische Universität Berlin, Universität der Künste / Berlin Career College (Sound Studies and Sonic Arts)