Heroines of Sound 2025
Concerts / Performance / Discourse / Workshop
Concert Film Panel Workshop Festival
Ticket Prices
Day Ticket
22 Euro reduced 15 Euro
2-day Ticket
38 Euro reduced 26 Euro
3-day Ticket / Festival Pass
55 Euro reduced 40 Euro
Workshop
12 Euro reduced 8 Euro
Ticket Prices
Day Ticket
22 Euro reduced 15 Euro
2-day Ticket
38 Euro reduced 26 Euro
3-day Ticket / Festival Pass
55 Euro reduced 40 Euro
Workshop
12 Euro reduced 8 Euro
Ticket Prices
Day Ticket
22 Euro reduced 15 Euro
2-day Ticket
38 Euro reduced 26 Euro
3-day Ticket / Festival Pass
55 Euro reduced 40 Euro
Workshop
12 Euro reduced 8 Euro
Credits
Heroines of Sound Festival 2025 is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, with the kind support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, the Goethe-Institut Chile and initiative neue musik Berlin e.V.
In co-operation with Radialsystem, ZK/U, Ensemble LUX:NM, Schrumpf/ LOUDsoft, Lullabyte.eu /FU Berlin, funded by the European Union.
Media partnerships: GROOVE, Missy Magazin, Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, The Wire, L.MAG, Spitz Magazin, The Berliner, Rausgegangen, tip Berlin, taz. die tageszeitung.
Feminist, diverse, genre-defying: Since 2014, the Heroines of Sound Festival has presented pioneering and contemporary electronic sound heroines. From 10 to 12 July 2025, the twelfth edition of the festival will explore various sonic languages and perspectives. Uncompromising sounds reflect the crises of our time: In the face of historically, geographically and politically defined dogmas, Heroines of Sound advocates for boundary crossings in concerts and performances that expand more than just the creative terrain.
The Finnish performance group Oblivia sheds light on the effects of the impending climate collapse with grotesque humour and effortless vibrancy. The renowned Meitar Ensemble from Tel Aviv brings together current works by Iranian, Israeli and German composers. On the last day of the festival, the brass ensemble Apparat presents a new version of the large-scale composition “Souvenir” by New Yorker artist Sarah Hennies, whose personal and psychological research approach captures the complex contradictions of transfeminine experiences.
With outstanding electronic musicians such as Nour Sokhon, Rojin Sharafi and Yara Mekawei, who combine their distinctive sound languages with mythologies and stories from their countries of origin, the programme focuses on the experimental music scene in the SWANA region. The international composer-performer scene is represented with performances conceived specifically for the festival, including by Viola Yip, Camilla M. Fehér, Chikiss and Augustė Vickunaitė.
Heroines of Sound 2025 opens at ZK/U Berlin on 4 and 5 July 2025, where the boundaries of conventional performance practice – as well as those between music, nature, and the natural sciences – are transcended in a Lullabyte Sleep concert and two concerts by Ensemble LUX:NM.
Diverse and genre-defying in approach, Heroines of Sound has, since its inaugural edition in 2014, enhanced the visibility of women and gender-diverse artists within the arts and music scenes, while uncovering connections across genres and generations. Founded in 2014 by Bettina Wackernagel and a group of Berlin-based artists with a feminist agenda, the Heroines of Sound Festival highlights the pioneers of electronic sound and sparks important conversations with current perspectives, from contemporary art music to performance, sound art, and experimental pop.
