Exploratorium Berlin

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The Exploratorium Berlin (spelling: exploratorium berlin ) is an event center for improvised music and creative music education . It was founded on May 22nd, 2004 by the musician and music teacher Matthias Schwabe. The sponsor is the Lilli Friedemann Foundation for improvised music and creative music education, which was also founded by Matthias Schwabe in October 2003. The exploratorium is located in a 512 m² factory floor in the Sarotti-Höfe in Berlin-Kreuzberg.

Conception

The exploratorium berlin is exclusively dedicated to the topic of free improvisation. The focus is on music, but free improvisation in other art forms, especially in movement, is also part of the concept. The exploratorium has set itself the goal of depicting and promoting the diversity of the various aspects of free improvisation. Accordingly, three central components of the work were established: the artistic, the educational and the participatory area.

The artistic work is about presenting free improvisation as part of the contemporary music scene and at the same time as a special art form in which the process of collective creation in concert is of central aesthetic importance and can be performed live by the audience. For this purpose, u. a. the musicians Sophia Gubaidulina with her improvisation ensemble ASTRAEA, Evan Parker , Malcolm Goldstein , Barre Phillips , Alexander von Schlippenbach , Phil Minton , Vinko Globokar , David Moss , Eddie Prévost , Jon Rose .

In its pedagogical work, the exploratorium is committed to an emancipatory pedagogical approach that focuses on independent research and learning from experience and focuses on the common learning of people with different musical requirements. Numerous weekend workshops and regular courses are offered for this purpose. The lecturers are improvisation teachers, some from Berlin and some from German-speaking countries, as well as guest lecturers such as Malcolm Goldstein , Barre Phillips and Urs Leimgruber .

The third pillar is the so-called “participatory” area. The starting point was a monthly “open stage” in which musicians and representatives of other art forms can improvise with one another in ad hoc formations. This form of event has produced numerous other variants: open stages for music and movement, for poetry and music, for children and young people under 15 years of age, right up to the offhand opera, an improvised spontaneous opera. In addition, initiatives have been formed that deal with the role of improvisation in instrumental lessons (“TIP”), with the role of improvisation in terminal care (“Nothing and everything”) and with independent research into the relationship between music and movement (“ Border crossings ").

From May 2012 Reinhard Gagel established a fourth mainstay, the area “Theory and Research”, which was opened in 2014 with the opening of a special library & archive for improvised music and a symposium “Explore improvisation - improvising research” as part of the 10-year exploratorium - Anniversary presented.

Projects and festivals (selection)

  • 2006, June: Festival Sound & Structure for the 100th birthday of Lilli Friedemann
  • 2009, May: Festival KlangBildung (for the fifth anniversary of exploratorium berlin)
  • 2009, October: Festival Violinale
  • 2010, May: Participation in the FeldForschungsFestival_Kultur of the Academy of Arts, Natural History Museum and Medical History Museum of the Charité
  • 2011, October: Yoshito Ohno Days
  • 2011/12: Project expressive & explorative, musical improvisation in schools in cooperation with 4 Berlin schools
  • 2012, August: Symposium expressive & explorative, musical improvisation in school
  • 2014, May: exploring improvisation - Festival Free Improvisation in Theory and Practice (for the 10th anniversary of the exploratorium berlin)

Publications

  • Reinhard Gagel, Matthias Schwabe (eds.): Expressive & explorative, musical improvisation in school . Norderstedt 2013

Discographic notes

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ exploratorium-berlin.de
  2. ↑ a b Matthias Schwabe: exploratorium berlin - scope for discovery and research . In: Positions , 62, p. 42
  3. ↑ Programs of the exploratorium berlin 2013 / I, 2013 / II, 2014 / I
  4. ↑ Katharina Bradler: Ten years of impromptu music . In: Practicing & Making Music , 2/2014, p. 38
  5. ↑ fff-k.de
  6. ↑ exploratorium-berlin.de
  7. ↑ Ortwin Nimczik: review. In: Music & Education , 2/2014, p. 78