Unmenschliche Musik

Compositions by Animals, Machines & Accidents

Curators

Detlef Diederichsen & Holger Schulze

Concept

For some time now, the Western musical canon has been expanded by an interest in non-European music. But it is now time to go a step further: in the age of humanity, with “Unmenschliche Musik” (Inhuman Music) HKW will take a look at compositions by machines, animals, and chance.

Can only people make music? Do not birds and whales also sing? What remains of the most holy and intimate art form when software can create compositions that cannot be distinguished from the works of the great masters? Inhuman Music allows for innovative approaches to current issues, for example creativity and intellectual property, artificial intelligence and aleatorics, the chance technique in art, brutism as the art of noise, and other forms of the European avant-garde.

Participants

Nicholas Bussmann, David Cope, Jerry Dammers` Spatial A.K.A. Orchestra, Ebba Durstewitz, Tamer Fahri, Alexander Hacke, Lillevan, Andrew Pekler, David Rothenberg, Nobukazu Takemura and many others.

Program

All performances, lectures & panel discussions

Cooperations

berliner gesellschaft für neue musik

Location

Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin

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