The second evening of the Heroines of Sound Festival opens with performances by Ira Hadžić, Swantje Lichtenstein and pioneer Katalin Ladik, who brings to the stage a new piece in collaboration with Natalia Pschenitschnikova. The intergenerational programme provides insight into the multifaceted spectrum of the interplay of sound, body and poetry. Language is conveyed not only through visual and vocal expression, but through movement and gestures as well, yielding a labyrinthine journey through space and time, in which even listening becomes language.

The Quiet Music Ensemble, who reinterprets “quiet music” as a “revolutionary act”, presents the German premiere of works by Irish and British composers commissioned by the ensemble. The collaborative piece “... we return to ground ...” combines music by Karen Power, dance by Mary Nunan and video by Atoosa Pour Hosseini. British composer and installation artist Kathy Hinde produces impressive sound sculptures that interact with the performers of the Quiet Music Ensemble. Anna Murray’s composition was inspired by the Noh Theater and the pine tree as a symbol of longevity and impermanence. Berlin-based multi-instrumentalist Theresa Stroetges, aka Golden Diskó Ship, then performs an audiovisual concert with both beat-driven and hymnic passages.

Panel II: „The engaged body and the aesthetics of electronic music“
Electronic music’s supposedly disembodied sound is the stuff of myth, and can easily be refuted by many current musical positions. The focus of this year’s festival is on percussion and electronic music, thereby providing an excellent opportunity to illuminate the sensorily and physically experiential moments offered by this genre. As both the percussionists and composers had equal weight in shaping this focus, the interchange between these two groups constitutes the central motif for this discursive event. Topics to be discussed include the question of the combination of instrumental and electronically generated sound as well as the specific challenges of percussion, for composers, musicians and audiences alike.