A Garden of Forking Paths – Finale 1
The closing event of MaerzMusik continues its pandemic-induced transformation and moves into the urban space around the festival center at silent green – concerts, performances and installations that inhabit their own temporality …
Visual concept & design: Eps51, Berlin
Past Dates
- Saturday, 26 March 2022
- 3G
- 20 / reduced € 15
“A Garden of Forking Paths” opens a window of time into a relational field of sound sources – concerts, listening stations, sound installations – that connects pasts and presents from multiple places around the world. The art of field recording lies at the heart of the final weekend of MaerzMusik – Festival for Time Issues 2022. Under the continued impact of the pandemic, “A Garden of Forking Paths – Finale” takes the place of the festival’s closing event “The Long Now” and migrates into the urban space around Nettelbeckplatz in Berlin/Wedding.
Six locations, including Nettelbeckplatz itself, are simultaneously open on 26 and 27 March 2022 – a constellation of interconnected places to be visited with each relating differently to sounds from the world we inhabit. From electronic live performances of artists working with field recordings and sound installations to unaltered acoustic time capsules, and encounters of relocated sonic realities embedded in the soundscape of Wedding, this project moves into a sonic zone of acoustic ecology.
The Betonhalle at silent green, MaerzMusik’s festival hub, is its beating heart, offering live concerts by electronic artists working with field recordings; the octagonal space of silent green’s Kuppelhalle hosts sound installations to be immersed in; Atelier 2 of silent green becomes a listening station that gives space to a plurality of soundscape approaches considering their temporal situatedness; SAVVY Contemporary invites single listeners to encounter a one-on-one relation with sound; Nettelbeckplatz bears witness to sounds from entirely different realities in the world; and Cashmere Radio, finally, offers a place and a frequency in which these layers of sonic experience meet and flow together. We invite you to spend four hours floating and circulating within soundscapes on your own path.
“A Garden of Forking Paths” opens MaerzMusik 2022 at the Gropius Bau, and another closes the festival – an invitation to enter relational encounters through, in and with sound, space and time.
Programme
Betonhalle (silent green)
20:00–20:45
Félicia Atkinson (live)
23:00–24:00
KMRU (live)
Kuppelhalle (silent green)
20:00–24:00
White Cat (Sound Installation):
Tarek Atoui & Chris Watson
In the Callichoron Well - Built in the First Half of the 5th Century BCE
Inside a Stone of Demeter’s Temple Built in 650 BCE
Inside an Olive Tree of Eleusis
The Tunnel to the Underworld
Hein B. Bjerck
The Tuv Bullroarer (~2800 cal. BCE)
Chris Chafe & Greg Niemeyer
Pistol Shrimps, 11-Sep-2001
The Tsar Bell, 10-Apr-2016
Morten Norbye Halvorsen
Basevuovdi
Buøy Harbor
Llyn Cwm Llwch
Stromboli
Carl Michael von Hausswolff
Cementerio del Norte, Montevideo, Uruguay
Mona Minas Gold Mine in Colombia
Jacob Kirkegaard
Euripus Strait
Fukushima
Spherics
Eric La Casa
Flux of Worker Bees
Interior Respiration
Vibrating Bodies
Gareth Lee Patterson
Limpets, Le Frioul, Marseille, April 2010
Micronecta and Rain, Agden Residence, S. Yorkshire, Summer 2009
Tadpoles, Kings_ Wood, Kent, Spring 2010
Unidentified Phenomenon in Long Wire, Timble Ings, N. Yorkshire
LIGO
The Collision of Two Black Holes
Matthieu Saladin
Erosion of a Rock
Plant Decomposition
Minoru Sato
SUN with DIRECTION – 16h24 (short)
SUN with REFLECTION – 10h22
Thomas Tilly
Aquatic Insect
Compost
Paraponera
Tropical Bats
Atelier 2 (silent green)
20:00–21:15
Peter Cusack
Sounds from Dangerous Places, Chernobyl
21:15–21:30
Mazen Kerbaj
Starry Night
21:30–21:45
Jacob Kirkegaard
4 Rooms, Church
21:45–22:22
Extinction Room
Extinction Stories
22:22–23:00
Jana Winderen
Pasvikdalen
23:00–24:00
Robin Mackay
By The North Sea
Nettelbeckplatz
Nature Soundscapes
SAVVY Contemporary
Benjamin Patterson Resonances
Cashmere Radio
20:00–20:45
Félicia Atkinson (Cashmere Radio Live On Air)
21:00–21:30
The Ever Present Orchestra (Live Performance)
21:30–23:00
Jake Muir (Live Sound Collage)
23:00–24:00
KMRU (Cashmere Radio Live On Air)
Cast
Co-curatey by Lendl Barcelos, Kamila Metwaly, Ross Alexander Payne (Cashmere Radio), Berno Odo Polzer, Nico Sauer (Cashmere Radio), Katharina Schmidt (Cashmere Radio)