Pentecost Symposium Munich

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The Pentecost Symposium Munich is an international forum that has been taking place in Munich since 1990 and is inspired by new music . Annual events enable interdisciplinary exchange among experts from music, art, science and society with the participation of an interested public.

The Pentecost Symposium in Munich takes up contemporary and topical issues. From a philosophical perspective, it enables new knowledge through the discourse of different disciplines. Insights are gained from the levels of sensory perception, science and the living environment.

Event form

With methods such as lectures, concerts, performances and workshops, those present at the Pentecost Symposium pursue the respective questions on three days from Friday to Sunday before Whit Monday. Participants should be stimulated to new conclusions in their personal thoughts.

The Munich Whitsun Symposium is carried out in cooperation with the Munich University of Music and Theater , the Orff Center Munich, the Real-Time Hall eV and Klang im turm, and the Munich Exchange Ring is associated. The cultural department of the state capital Munich is co-organizer. The Pentecost Symposium in Munich has no commercial objectives and is realized with funding and sponsoring.

origin

The initiator and organizer of the Munich Pentecost Symposium is Ulrike Trüstedt . As a composer for life electronic music , concrete music and performance and sound installation she succeeded in 1990, the leap , interdisciplinary dialogue of the new music from initiating.

As a pioneer of this approach, the Pentecost Symposium in Munich ties in with the knowledge culture before the Age of Enlightenment . In antiquity, as in the Middle Ages, the basic formation of the septem artes liberales was assumed . This interdisciplinarity had given way to internal specialization and the increasing exclusion of areas of knowledge such as music theory.

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