Performing Sound, Playing Technology - Panel Discussion

GLOBALE: Performing Sound, Playing Technology | Symposium


A Festival on Contemporary Musical Instruments and Interfaces


Fri, Feb 05 - Sun, Feb 07, 2016


»Performing Sound, Playing Technology. A Festival on Contemporary
Musical Instruments and Interfaces« provides insights into the
development of innovative instruments and interfaces in the field
of electronic music. A total of two concert evenings on subjects
such as instrument prosthetics, established tools thought new,
live coding, tinkering and dancing. In addition, research
projects will be presented in a symposium, and there will also be
a possibility to experiment in innovative instruments and
interfaces.

The festival thus offers a range of perspectival approaches the
objective of which is to encourage and support the critical
examination of artistic and scientific potential in contemporary
musical instruments, while at the same time thematizing the
question of the reciprocal influence of music and technology: In
what ways are new technologies applied to contemporary
instruments? What references can meanwhile be made between
instruments? How are they played and what kind of music is
produced with them? The festival visitor traces the various
perspectives of instrumentalists, developers, artists and
scientists by way of theoretical and practical approaches, and
thereby inspires participants to speculate on possible future
scenarios.