40 Years of SIM at the Kulturforum

In lectures on Luigi Nono's sketch of an "Ars combinatoria" at the Kulturforum, on sound art in public spaces and on bells in urban spaces and their compositional processing, the first part of the symposium is devoted to architecturally influenced music and the Kulturforum as a specific performance space for music.

Following this, speakers from various disciplines will examine the Kulturforum as a musically influenced urban landscape. The building history in connection with Hans Scharoun's concept of "music at the center" as well as the architecture of the State Institute for Music Research with the Musical Instrument Museum and the Kulturforum as a soundscape will be discussed from a media science and room acoustics perspective.

Finally, the potential of networking cross-disciplinary artistic research and musicology at the Kulturforum will be discussed, rounded off by a round table with representatives of neighboring institutions in order to take an initial inventory and discuss and to think together about a stronger networking of artistic and scientific sound and music-related activities at the Kulturforum.

With contributions by Veniero Rizzardi (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia), Angela Ida de Benedictis (Paul Sacher Foundation), Julia H. Schröder (University of the Arts Berlin), Jo Wilhelm Siebert (SIM), Nikolaus Bernau (journalist and author), Flavia Hennig (SIM), Heinz von Loesch (SIM), Hannah Wiemer (Institute for Media Studies), Stefan Weinzierl (TU Berlin), Simone Hohmaier (SIM).

Round table with Gero Dimter, Barbara Göbel, Sibylle Hoiman, Rebecca Wolf and Hannes Langbein.