Event Series
This season, the Musical Instrument Museum is combining two current research focuses at the SIM in a series: musical interpretation and musical performance spaces. The debates in both areas regularly converge, and in many cases, they are indispensable.
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Curt-Sachs-Saal des Musikinstrumenten-Museums
For as relevant as the function of spatiality is for central questions of interpretation, and as essential as the conditions of space are for the performance of music in general, insights into the concrete practice of musical performances and the nature of the music performed are equally crucial for questions of spatiality.
Short introductions to the respective topic, vivid demonstrations live or in another medium, and discussions with the audience are intended to complement each other in different ways.
In July, Heinz von Loesch will retire, providing an opportunity to celebrate this long-time colleague and the spiritus rector of interpretation research at the SIM.
Short introductions to each topic, vivid demonstrations live or in another medium and discussions with the audience will complement each other in different ways.
Responsible and always present: Heinz von Loesch, Jo Wilhelm Siebert, Olga Sutkowska and Rebecca Wolf.
On four of the above dates, there will be an opportunity to take part in a tour of the SIM's acoustic rooms at 4.45 pm. Contribution towards expenses € 3.
DATES
Thursday, 3 April 2025, 6 pm
Dynamics - licence to disobey
Jo Wilhelm Siebert
Thursday, 15 May 2025, 6 p.m.
Background and foreground - near and far. On an important category of interpretation in works of the Viennese School
Martin Kapeller
Thursday, 5 June 2025, 6 pm
The oldest sound spaces of mankind. On the acoustic phenomena of Stone Age caves
With demonstrations on replicas of archaeological musical instruments
Anna Friederike Potengowski and Arnd Adje Both
16.45 Listen up! Tour through the SIM's acoustics rooms
Thursday, 3 July 2025, 6 p.m.
Interpretation research - quo vadis?
Christian Utz
To mark the conclusion of the book series History of musical interpretation in the 19th and 20th centuries and Heinz von Loesch's departure from the State Institute for Music Research
Thursday, 23 October 2025, 6 pm
Performance in space. Acoustic conditions of interpretation
Zora Schärer
16.45 Listen! Tour through the acoustic rooms of the SIM
Thursday, 13 November 2025, 6 pm
How live is live? Music for and in hybrid spaces
Miriam Akkermann
16.45 Listen up! Tour through the acoustic rooms of the SIM
Thursday, 4 December 2025, 6 pm
Not to be overheard! The aulos as an instrument for indoors and outdoors in ancient Athens
With demonstrations on the replica of the Louvre Aulos
Agnes Schwarzmaier and Olga Sutkowska
16.45 Listen up! Tour through the acoustic rooms of the SIM
(IN GERMAN)
