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Madrigal Network
Die italienische Renaissance ist eine Zeit großer musikalischer Innovationen: In der Madrigalkunst der Renaissance gibt es Anknüpfungspunkte zu modernen Kompositionstechniken sowie zu den Tonsystemen der alteuropäischen und außereuropäischen...
ON – New Music Cologne e.V.: Key Works
Over thirty partners are involved in the Cologne-based network "ON - New Music Cologne e.V." - one of the projects in the New Music Network, funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation. In December 2008, the Cologne network presented a concert series...
I Shall Not Remain Silent – The Jürgen Fuchs Project
The writer and psychologist Jürgen Fuchs was one of the most prominent civil rights activists of the former GDR. In 1976 he was arrested for “forming subversive groups” and deported to West Germany in 1977. The inscription on his gravestone reads: “I...
KlangZeit 2014
In the times of conventional warfare, marching music was used as a means of synchronising and propelling troops forward into battle. Nowadays, heavy metal music blasts from MP3 players – the war soundtrack of today which gets soldiers psyched up to...
Jazz Lines Munich 2011
After a seven-year hiatus, the Jazz Lines festival in Munich took place again in 2009. With its focus on contemporary and cross-border positions in jazz, the festival has re-established its leading role in Munich’s music scene. In 2011 the festival...
jazzwerkstatt Peitz Nr. 50
Just a few kilometres away from the Polish border in the German-Sorbian region of Niederlausitz lies the town of Peitz where the largest jazz festival of the GDR took place once a year – and occasionally even several times a year – since 1973....
Jazzwerkstatt Around the World
In recent years, Berlin has witnessed the rise of a jazz scene with a distinctive, recognizable sound. The music by such artists as Aki Takase, Rudi Mahall, Gerhard Gschlößl and many others, is now known here and abroad as “German jazz” and has a...
Israel in Egypt
George Frideric Handel rendered the biblical story of Israel’s exodus from Egypt in his 1738 oratorio “Israel in Egypt”. Werner Ehrhardt now integrated this story, described in the Old Testament and Torah and alluded to in the Koran, into an...
Sound! – Start
The New Music Network kicked off its project in Hamburg with a concert at the Rolf Liebermann Studio at the NDR broadcasting company and a large festival event at Kampnagel. On Saturday, 27 September, the Asko Ensemble, the Ensemble Resonanz and the...
Sound Bridge
Works of contemporary art reflect how a nation currently sees itself. It seems that multinational collaboration on contemporary compositions would be particularly suited to motivating young musicians from various countries to become familiar with the...
