Heroines of Sound Festival 2024
Concerts / Performance / Discourse / Video art / Workshops
Concert Panel Workshop Musik Festival Video art
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
6 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
6 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
6 Euro
Festival Programme
Thu 11 07 from 5 pm – Day 1
Sound and film bar: video art by Katalin Ladik
6 pm: Panel I – ‘Activists in the female/non-binary music scene: lone fighters or networked and co-operative?’ with Florencia Curci, Tatiana Heuman, Lenka Kocisova, Eugenia Seriakov aka Cate Hops und Stellan Veloce / Moderation Kat Ott-Alavi (musicwomen Germany)
8 pm: Concert I – Katharina Ernst, Farida Amadou
10 pm: Concert II – Ensemble Kompopolex
Fri 12 07 from 5 pm – Day 2
Sound and film bar: video art Katalin Ladik
3-6 pm: Workshop ‘Pulsatile Presences: Improvising with radio bodies and somatic rythms’ with Florencia Curci and Tatiana Heuman
6-7.30 pm: Panel II – ‘A critical reflection of the engaged body within the aesthetics of electronic music’ with Greta Eacott, Anna Murray, Karen Power und Robyn Schulkowsky / Keynote Laura Zattra (Ircam/Paris) / Moderation Sabine Sanio (Berlin)
8 pm: Concert III – Ira Hadžić, Katalin Ladik, Natalia Pschenitschnikova and Swantje Lichtenstein
10 pm: Concert IV – Quiet Music Ensemble
11.30 pm: Concert V – Golden Diskó Ship
Sat 13 07 from 4 pm – Day 3
4-5.30 pm: Panel III – ‘Body - Voice - Image. Voice performance between self-presentation and heteronomy’ with Marisol Jiménez, Julia Mihály and Ute Wassermann / Keynote Rahma Khazam (Paris) / Moderation Martina Seeber (Stuttgart)
4-0 pm: Sound and film bar: video art by Katalin Ladik
6-7.30 pm: Panel IV – ‘Acoustic poetry and music’ with Ira Hadžic, Katalin Ladik and Natalia Pschenitschnikova / Keynote Swantje Lichtenstein (Berlin) / Moderation Monika Pasiecznik (Warschau)
8 pm: Concert VI – Robyn Schulkowsky
9 pm: Concert VII – PHØNIX16, Marisol Jiménez
10 pm: Concert VIII – Julia Mihály, Teresa Riemann, Laura Robles
11 pm: Concert IX – Tatiana Heuman & Florencia Curci, Zavoloka
Credits
Heroines of Sound 2024 is funded by the Capital Cultural Fund and the Mariann Steegmann Foundation.
Further partners are CHB Berlin, Klang Festival, Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, Koda Kultur, Statens Kunstfonds. As part of Zeitgeist Ireland 24, an initiative of Culture Ireland and the Irish Embassy in Germany.
Media partnerships Radialsystem: The Berliner, Rausgegangen, tip Berlin, taz. die tageszeitung.
Feminist, diverse, and cross-genre – all characteristics that underpin the ‘Heroines of Sound’ festival, which once again presents early and current heroines of electronic sound, spanning subgenres from performance and sound art to advanced pop. The current programme sheds new light on the legendary ‘disembodied’ sound of electronic music, particularly with this year’s double focus on voice and percussion conjoined with electronics. Outstanding percussionists such as Katharina Ernst, Tatiana Heuman, Florencia Curci, Teresa Riemann, Robyn Schulkowsky, and Laura Robles offer beat-oriented drum and electronic sets, and electric bassist Farida Amadou imbues her sets with an extraordinarily percussive touch. The young Polish ensemble Kompopolex perform the Berlin premiere of new works by Kelley Sheehan, Stellan Veloce, Sofie Meyer, Greta Eacott, Marta Śniady and Monika Dalach.
Soloist ensemble PHØNIX16 present the world premiere of Marisol Jiménez’ ‘Maŝinika Deliro’ – a crossover between performance art and electro-acoustic sound synthesis that transforms the human body into a sound generator through the interplay of electronics and voice.
One festival spotlight is focussed on Katalin Ladik: as one of the few female protagonists of the artistic avant-garde, she established herself as a pioneer of acoustic poetry with her radical approach in the former Yugoslavia of the 1960s/70s. Using body and voice as instrument and medium, she calls into question conventional gender roles, as in her new work ‘Membrane Universe’.
Together with interdisciplinary performances by younger artists/authors such as Ira Hadžić and Swantje Lichtenstein, the intergenerational evening programme offers diverse encounters between language, literature, and (sound) art. Other highlights include the Berlin premiere of recent compositions by Karen Power, Kathy Hinde, and Anna Murray, performed by Irish Quiet Music Ensemble. Composer and this year’s guest curator Julia Mihály presents her new version of ‘18WEST – Songs für den Untergang’, whose stylistic references to agitprop and protest music make for a captivating piece. The programme also includes performances by experimental multi-instrumentalist Theresa Stroetges, aka Golden Diskó Ship, and Ukrainian electronic musician Zavoloka.
Further information: Festival 2024 – Heroines of Sound (heroines-of-sound.com)
