Berlin Society for New Music
The Berlin Society for New Music e. V. (BGNM) is a forum for production and reception aesthetics as well as cultural-political issues relating to new music . The BGNM advocates dialogue on contemporary music in Berlin through lecture concerts, festivals and exhibitions . The BGNM is a local section of the Society for New Music e. V. , which in turn is the German section of the International Society for New Music.
history
The BGNM was founded in November 1990. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification , she initially strived to provide a framework for the exchange of musicians from East and West Berlin . The phase of content-related self-definition was followed by regular meetings from April 1991 onwards, in which composers presented their works and discussions took place. She also started to organize festivals in cooperation with other organizers and ensembles.
The board consists of Ralf Hoyer (1st chairman), Katharina Hanstedt (2nd chairman), Markus Bongartz (3rd chairman) and Florian Nadvornik (treasurer).
Events
The first festival was held in 1991 under the motto Musik zur Zeit - in Berlin on the premises of the Akademie der Künste , the Center Culturel Français and the House of Hungarian Culture. In 1992 , the BGNM Language and Music Commission organized the SprachTonArt festival in Palais Podewils in cooperation with the Berlin Literary Colloquium . In 1994 the festival followed with the theme Irrton , a festival of virtual irritations . The Music and Light Festival (1996) was accompanied by installations in Palais Podewils, in the Parochialkirche and in the art and auction house Sanssouci. In addition to installations and concerts , a specially designed film series enriched the 1998 festival under the heading of minimalisms .
At the end of November 2007, the BGNM organized a festival on the subject of feedback , in which questions such as the possibilities of biofeedback in music were asked.
At the end of the 1990s, the Jour fixe was introduced, to which artists are invited once a month to present their current projects.
Yearbooks
Since 1997, the results of the jour fixe have been documented through the publication of topic-specific yearbooks ( music in dialogue ):
- Metzger, Christoph / Sanio, Sabine (eds.): Music in Dialogue [Yearbook of the Berlin Society for New Music 1997, contributions by contemporary theorists from philosophy, art and music], Saarbrücken 1998
- Metzger, Christoph / Hoyer, Ralf (ed.): Musik im Dialog II [Yearbook of the Berlin Society for New Music 1998, contributions to the Jours fixes of the BGNM], Saarbrücken 1999
- Sanio, Sabine / Wackernagel, Bettina / Ravenna, Jutta (eds.): Music in Dialogue III. Klangkunst - Musiktheater [Yearbook of the Berlin Society for New Music 1999], Saarbrücken 2000
- Gerlach, Julia / Metzger, Christoph / Pfrengle, Roland / Thoraus, Christian (eds.): Music in Dialogue IV. Institutionally & elsewhere [Yearbook of the Berlin Society for New Music 2000/2001], Saarbrücken 2001
- Brüstle, Christa / Rebstock, Matthias / Schulze, Holger (eds.): Music in Dialogue V. musik - politik [Yearbook of the Berlin Society for New Music 2002], Saarbrücken 2004
- Brüstle, Christa / Rebstock, Matthias (ed.): Music in Dialogue VI. reflex zones / migration [Yearbook of the Berlin Society for New Music 2003/2004], Saarbrücken 2006
Other publications
- Sanio, Sabine (ed.): SprachTonArt [Festival for Language and Music, 24. – 27. September 1992. Berlin Society for New Music in collaboration with Podewil and the Literary Colloquium Berlin], Berlin 1992
- Sanio, Sabine (ed.): Irrton [Festival of virtual irritation, 4. – 8. May 1994. Berlin Society for New Music in collaboration with Podewil], Saarbrücken 1998
- Sanio, Sabine (ed.): Minimalisms: Forms of Reception in the 90s [Festival of the Berlin Society for New Music 1998], Ostfildern 1998