Sonic Borderlines 2026 – Listening Series / Part 2: New Performance Practice with Cross-Listening

The concert programme focuses on the act of listening through musical metaphors; each event includes a discussion on the distinctive features of different culturally shaped ways of listening in the context of texts and literature.

Sonic Borderlines works on collaborative music and compositions, developing a unique performance practice for each concert that brings together international musicians from various disciplines. They pay particular attention to socially embedded sound metaphors and ways of listening.

The format of the discussion and listening sessions enables the audience and the musicians to talk about what they have heard before and after the concert or piece. Questions and discussions about the process of mutual listening accompany every event. Developing a different musicality through listening also means that the musicians, to some extent, reinvent their instrumental technique based on what they have learnt.

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