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Ensemble Freie Musik plays in the exhibition Passionen EFM - Ensemble Freie Musik The EFM has been involved in instant composing for around 30 years, i.e. the creation of pieces of music from the moment, without prefabricated concepts, without prior agreements. The resulting pieces pieces and performances are not only unique and unrepeatable, they are…

Jour fixe of the Ensemble Freie Musik The art of listening as the basis of the creative process - Instant Composing with the Ensemble Freie Musik. For around 30 years, the EFM has been involved in instant composing, i.e. the creation of pieces of music from the moment, without prefabricated concepts, without prior agreements. The…

Endless Terror Bringing the horror to life. Sound installation to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The longer ago the liberation of Auschwitz took place and the fewer witnesses are still alive, the more difficult it becomes for us to grasp what happened back then. How can we approach…

Talk about the sound installation "Endless terror" January 27, 2025 marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz camp for the 80th time. Endless terror is a multi-room sound installation that addresses the permanent humiliation and terrorization of the camp inmates. From the deportation to the time inside the camp, the installation ultimately leads…

from here... LIVE! The Cooperativa plays live with the sound installation from here... from here... is an eight-channel sound installation based on a one year travel from the Caspian Sea across Central Asia, China and South Korea overland to Japan. And from Japan back to Germany. The sounds of different languages, of markets of different…

Talk about my travel from here... I travelled one year from the Caspian Sea across Central and Eastern Asia to Japan. On this journey I collected many interviews with more than 50 people. The questions had been about languages, influences of countries and how much the view on the world is characterised by where we…

from here... …the world looks very different. We mainly look at other countries out of two view points: Either we set the country in relationship to us or at least look from the view point of our history and our interests towards it. Or we look at a certain event. Rarely we have a look…

Encounter Trip to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial From November 4th to 8th, 2024, the association begegnen e.V. will do an encounter tripmeeting trip to Poland. Planned are visits to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, a guided tour of Krakow and a conversation with a contemporary witness, a tour of the Jewish center in Oświęcim and its synagogue.…

Echo chambers A musical production of the Philipp Reis Hauses in Friedrichsdorf (Taunus) with Cooperativa Ensemble (Bielefeld) How does a place sound that is so closely related to telephony as the Philipp-Reis-Haus? The Cooperative Ensemble, Bielefeld explores with musical, tonal and performative interventions possible answers. Contributors Marcus Beuter – soundart Angelika Höger – kinetic soundart,…

New sounds between east and west Orchestration of the Perzina-Hauses / Schwerin 14.09.24, 7:30 p.m. Concert in the Capella hospitalis / Bielefeld 15.09.24, 6 p.m. Cooperativa Ensemble, Bielefeld and Ensemble Schweres Wasser, Schwerin The Perzinahaus Schwerin has been built in 1905 as a piano factory. More than 30.000 pianos have been built here before it…