Stories
In our multimedia stories, we highlight selected topics of the festival, explore background information and start conversations.
2024
The Acousmonium at the Festival Présences électronique
Photo: Didier Allard, © INA grm
The Loudspeaker Orchestra: Acousmonium
For its 50th birthday, the GRM's Acousmonium is visiting MaerzMusik. Find out more about the loudspeaker orchestra designed by François Bayle in our multimedia story, check out interviews with artists such as KMRU, Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O'Rourke, and listen to a selection of pieces by composers like Beatriz Ferreyra, Iannis Xenakis and Eve Aboulkheir.
2023
Lucia Dlugoszewski performing “Geography of Noon”
Courtesy of the Erick Hawkins Dance Foundation, Inc.
Lucia Dlugoszewski
How not to become famous – our story “Lucia Dlugoszewski” provides some introductory insights into the life and works of this composer, performer, inventor of instruments, writer and choreographer who will be a focal figure of MaerzMusik 2023 and 2024.
2022
Éliane Radigue
© Éleonore Huisse
The Universe of Éliane Radigue
Radigue’s oeuvre encompasses three phases in which she experiments with recording devices and feedback techniques, modular synthesizers and finally acoustic instruments to explore the inner life of sounds and their becoming in listening. In our Digital Guide, you can learn more about the most important biographical stations, the working methods and the creative periods of the pioneer of electronic music.