Space for Knowledge Exchange
Library of MaerzMusik
Library of MaerzMusik, 2023 © Berliner Festspiele, photo: Camille Blake
Haus der Berliner Festspiele and other venues
Free admission
Now in its third year, the Library of MaerzMusik will be open throughout the festival as a place for gatherings and collective reflection, facilitating encounters between artists, audiences and a range of content. Offering interactive formats, talks and artistic interventions, it aims to create a space for the exchange of knowledge and shared experiences that is open to the pubic free of charge.
With a spatial installation by D_P_S (Diogo Passarinho and Gonçalo Reynolds)
Saturday 22.3.
Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Bornemann Bar
15:00–16:00 | Library of MaerzMusik – Opening
Conversation with Kamila Metwaly, Brigitta Muntendorf u. a. | and others
Related event: MELENCOLIA
16:00–16:20 | Positionen – Release of the New Issue “Bühnen bahnen”
With the editors Patrick Becker and Bastian Zimmermann
Sunday 23.3.
Radialsystem
12:30–13:30 | Weather Report – Publishing on New Music in the Next Generation
Panel with Wolke Verlag’s new managing director Patrick Becker and guests
Books about new music? Whether it’s artistic research, essays, photo books, theoretical writings or editions of specific works, the question repeatedly resents itself: what will we publish about advanced music in future and how will we do it? A panel put together by the Wolke Verlag, with contributors from the music scene as well as from the arts, academia and publishing, will discuss new models, challenges and opportunities.
14:00–15:00 | Book Presentation: “13 Ways of Looking at AI, Art & Music” by Jennifer Walshe
With the composer and author Jennifer Walshe
Related event: Minor Characters
Jennifer Walshe presents her new essay, in which she takes a playful and penetrating look at the latest technical achievements and asks how Artificial Intelligence might work as a tool and source of inspiration for music and the arts.
Monday 24.3.
Radialsystem
19:15–20:00 | Artist Talk
with Nguyễn + Transitory
Related event: Drifting to the Rhythms at the Southeast of Nowhere
Tuesday 25.3.
Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Bornemann Bar
18:15–19:45 | Music Between Engagement and Autonomy
Open discussion with composers, musicians and curators
Co-presented by field notes / inm, continuation of the conversation “‘Engagierte’ vs. ‘Absolute’ Musik” (Ultraschall Berlin)
Wednesday 26.3.
Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Bornemann Bar
14:30–15:00 | The aesthetic politics of entanglement: practicing an expanded listening
Keynote by Salomé Voegelin
15:00–16:00 | Reflections on Music and Touch
Discussion with Kuba Krzewiński, Aliénor Dauchez, Bastian Zimmermann and Salomé Voegelin
Related event: Salon of Touch
Thursday 27.3.
Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Side Stage
Friday 28.3.
silent green, Atelier 2 / Kuppelhalle
17:45–21:30, Atelier 2 | Global Breath. World of Trumpet Sounds
Sound Installation
20:00–20:45, Kuppelhalle | Take a Deep Breath – Artist Talk with the Composers of Global Breath 1
Related event: silent green 1
Saturday 29.3.
silent green, Atelier 2
12:00–16:30
Discourse Programme and Workshops