Library of MaerzMusik
The “Library of MaerzMusik” is a new space/time for open exchange and personal study, to which the festival invites visitors daily from 14:00 with free admission. In this modular library in the Festspielhaus, artists and the public meet in interactive formats, lectures and artistic interventions.
Glass ball caleidoscope
© Kluvi1, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Friday, 19 to Sunday, 26 March 2023
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daily 14:00–18:00
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Free admission
Sunday 19.3.
15:00 Library of MaerzMusik – Opening
Chaya Czernowin and Noa Frenkel in conversation
Monday 20.3.
14:00 Pauline Oliveros / PHØNIX16 / participants: Sonic Meditation X
To participate please send an email to: MaerzMusikLibrary@berlinerfestspiele.de
16:00 Lecture: Liza Lim on Sex Magic
In this lecture, Liza Lim shares with us the collaborative working process wiht Claire Chase for Sex Magic, and how some of the flute techniques & electronic technology were developed. The lecture links ideas about embodied knowledge and performance practice to thinking around ecological co-emergence.
A shuttle bus will be available from Haus der Berliner Festspiele to Villa Elisabeth leaving at 18:00.
19:00 Musikgenossenschaft
Tuesday 21.3.
14:00 Pauline Oliveros / PHØNIX16 / participants: Sonic Meditation X
To participate please send an email to: MaerzMusikLibrary@berlinerfestspiele.de
14:30 Film screening: Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros
A film by Daniel Weintraub
“Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros” has become a crucial conduit for passing along her wisdom as it tells the story of Pauline Oilveros’s life as an iconic composer, performer, teacher, philosopher, technological innovator and humanitarian.
16:30 Telematic Q&A with IONE and Daniel Weintraub
Moderated by Miya Masaoka
Wednesday 22.3.
Haus der Berliner Festspiele
14:00 Wojtek Blecharz: FIELD 5. Aura
a sound treatment for one listener (laying on a mat with covered eyes), one performer and seven wireless speakers
Commissioned by Roskilde Festival
“A ‘field’ can be understood as a sound field or a field of possibilities, where sonic energies merge, intertwine, overlap, travel or remain static etc. I started using this term in 2017 for any piece of music where musicians are not facing the audience in a traditional stage setting but are rather located around or between the listeners. Unlike a performative / music installation, a field has a fixed score and dramaturgy.” – Wojtek Blecharz
To participate please send an email to: MaerzMusikLibrary@berlinerfestspiele.de
16:00 Reading and conversation with Laura Bowler and Juliet Fraser
SAVVY Contemporary
14:00 Wojtek Blecharz: FIELD 5. Aura
Performance by Nicolas Navarro Rueda
a sound treatment for one listener (laying on a mat with covered eyes), one performer and seven wireless speakers
Commissioned by Roskilde Festival
To participate please send an email to: listeningsessions@savvy-contemporary.com
19:00 Film screening: Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros
A film by Daniel Weintraub
“Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros” has become a crucial conduit for passing along her wisdom as it tells the story of Pauline Oilveros’s life as an iconic composer, performer, teacher, philosopher, technological innovator and humanitarian.
Thursday 23.3.
14:00 Wojtek Blecharz: FIELD 5. Aura
a sound treatment for one listener (laying on a mat with covered eyes), one performer and seven wireless speakers
Commissioned by Roskilde Festival
To participate please send an email to: MaerzMusikLibrary@berlinerfestspiele.de
15:20 Pauline Oliveros, Sonic Meditation VII: Getting Your Rocks Off
Performance by PHØNIX16
16:00 Reading and conversation with Mathias Spahlinger and Enno Poppe
A shuttle bus will be available from Haus der Berliner Festspiele to Radialsystem leaving at 17:30.
18:00: Grenzraum HÖREN 17. Pauline Oliveros: Sonic Meditations
20:00: Songs for Captured Voices Laure M. Hiendl / Elaine Mitchener / KNM Berlin
Friday 24.3.
14:00 Film screening: Sisters with Transistors: Electronic Music’s Unsung Heroines
A film by Liza Rovner
“Sisters with Transistors” is the remarkable untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today. The film maps a new history of electronic music through the visionary women whose radical experimentations with machines redefined the boundaries of music, including Clara Rockmore, Daphne Oram, Bebe Barron, Pauline Oliveros, Delia Derbyshire, Maryanne Amacher, Éliane Radigue, Suzanne Ciani, and Laurie Spiegel.
16:00 Film screening: Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros
A film by Daniel Weintraub
“Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros” has become a crucial conduit for passing along her wisdom as it tells the story of Pauline Oilveros’s life as an iconic composer, performer, teacher, philosopher, technological innovator and humanitarian.
Saturday 25.3.:
Haus der Berliner Festspiele
14:00 Wojtek Blecharz: FIELD 5. Aura
a sound treatment for one listener (laying on a mat with covered eyes), one performer and seven wireless speakers
Commissioned by Roskilde Festival
To participate please send an email to: MaerzMusikLibrary@berlinerfestspiele.de
SAVVY Contemporary
14:00 Pauline Oliveros, Sonic Meditation XI: Bowl Gong
Performance by Marisol Jiménez
14:15 Archive activation and radio session by Dang A Dang Radio
16:00 Pauline Oliveros, Sonic Meditation I+II: Teach Yourself to Fly
Performance by Veronika Böhle, Goh Lee Kwang, Michael Taylor, Timo Kreuser
17:00 Guided tour through the exhibition “Lakbayan. Voices of Resistance from the Philippines”
with the curators; in English
Sunday 26.3.
14:00 Wojtek Blecharz: FIELD 5. Aura
a sound treatment for one listener (laying on a mat with covered eyes), one performer and seven wireless speakers
Commissioned by Roskilde Festival
To participate please send an email to: MaerzMusikLibrary@berlinerfestspiele.de
18:30 “Klänge von morgen schon heute” (Sounds of Tomorrow Already Today): Positionen release party
with the editorial team and authors of the newly published issue #134
Kamila Metwaly Curator
Enno Poppe Guest Curator
Leil Zahra Mortada Co-Curator
Sophie Emilie Beha Editorial & Dramaturgy
Sonia Lescène, Ina Steffan, Stella Wegmann, Ivana Wirtz, Franziska Hempel Organisation & Production
D_P_S (Gonçalo Reynolds, Diogo Passarinho) Spatial Installation & Conception
Bert Günther Production
Kamila Metwaly, Sonia Lescène Conception & Text
Special thanks to: Matthias Pees, Claudia Nola, Birte Dördelmann, Paul Rabe, Nele Warthemann, Amina Gabr, Treffen Junge Szene, Theatertreffen, Jazzfest Berlin and many others.
For the project, around 70 % of the material comes from stage constructions and furniture from the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.
