think archive
In the think archive you will find our announcements for events of the Denkraum Improvisation from February 2020 onwards. For more events further in the past, please refer to our old program booklets.
imp[or]trait #11: Transformationen der Stimme: Improvisation in imaginären Habitats (STIMME 2)
![imp[or]trait #11: Transformationen der Stimme: Improvisation in imaginären Habitats (STIMME 2)](https://exploratorium-berlin.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2023-11-16_importrait11_UteWassermann-768x768-400x400.jpg)
Talk in German + Performance
Guest: Ute Wassermann
Moderation: Mathias Maschat
Ute Wassermann is a vocal artist, composer-performer and improviser ...
imp[or]trait #10: Vokaler Klangtanz – Alex Nowitz und das Strophonion (STIMME 1)
![imp[or]trait #10: Vokaler Klangtanz – Alex Nowitz und das Strophonion (STIMME 1)](https://exploratorium-berlin.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2023-10-05_importrait_Alex-Nowitz-Strophonion_copyright-768x768-400x400.jpg)
Talk in German + Performance
Guest: Alex Nowitz
Moderation: Mathias Maschat
Alex Nowitz (* 1968) works primarily as a ...
Sunday Matinee with Georg Bertram and Lauren Newton

Talk in German language
Lauren Newton: Traces – vocal performance
Georg Bertram: „Menschliche Praxis als improvisatorische Praxis“ (“Human practice as ...
Sound & Lecture N° 21: Jon Rose & Richard Barrett / Colophony

Concert + talk in English
Guests for talk:
Jon Rose (AU) & Richard Barrett (GB/RS)
Moderation: Mathias Maschat
Colophony
Jon ...
imp[or]trait #9: Alfred 23 Harth – “Life Can Be A Gestalt In Time”
![imp[or]trait #9: Alfred 23 Harth – “Life Can Be A Gestalt In Time”](https://exploratorium-berlin.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Alfred23Harth_by_Alfred23Harth-304x400.jpg)
Talk in German
Guest: Alfred 23 Harth
Moderation: Mathias Maschat
The Neue Zeitung für Musik called him one of the ...
Symposium / Open Space: Improvisation und Ethik

Symposium / Open Space: Improvisation und Ethik
8th Symposium at the exploratorium berlin
With Joshua Bergamin, Helmut Bieler-Wendt, Tina Burova, ...
Sound & Lecture N° 20: “(Musical) Ethics Lab Satellite 1”

Concert + talk in German
Christopher A. Williams (US/AT) – concept, direction, double bass
Carl Ludwig Hübsch (DE) – tuba
...
imp[or]trait #8: echtzeitmusik – Material und Motivation
![imp[or]trait #8: echtzeitmusik – Material und Motivation](https://exploratorium-berlin.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/22_12_8_importrait_echtzeitmusik-768x768-400x400.jpg)
Talk in German
Guests: Neo Hülcker, Christian Kesten, Johannes Kreidler, Andrea Neumann
Moderation: Mathias Maschat
echtzeitmusik – Material und Motivation ...
Sound & Lecture N° 19: The Galilean Moons

Robert Dick (US) – flutes (from piccolo to double bass)
Ursel Schlicht – Piano Inside-Out
Moderation: Mathias Maschat
Ursel Schlicht ...
imp[or]trait #7: The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Improvisation in the Arts
![imp[or]trait #7: The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Improvisation in the Arts](https://exploratorium-berlin.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/pic_Alessandro-Routledge-760x1024-297x400.jpg)
Talk in German
Guest: Alessandro Bertinetto
Moderation: Mathias Maschat
The Italian philosopher and improvisation theorist Alessandro Bertinetto is our guest in ...
key_concepts #8: Correspondences: The Body and Material in Sound Installation and Performance

Talk in English
Guest: Andrea Parkins
Moderation: Mathias Maschat
Guest in the 8th edition of Mathias Maschat’s key_concepts ...
Memories of an Amnesiac

Lecture Performance and talk in English
Macarena Montesinos: Memories of an Amnesiac
In Memories of an Amnesiac, the cellist, improviser, ...
imp[or]trait #6: echtzeitmusik and its international connectivity
![imp[or]trait #6: echtzeitmusik and its international connectivity](https://exploratorium-berlin.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/importrait_ezm_2022-06-16-768x768-400x400.jpg)
Talk in English
Guests: Burkhard Beins, Angharad Davies, Yan Jun, Mariá Portugal
Moderation: Mathias Maschat
echtzeitmusik and its international ...
key_concepts #7: Improvisation – “The Living Music”

Talk in German
Guest: Alexander von Schlippenbach
Moderation: Mathias Maschat
“It was of the utmost importance to us, for ...
Sound & Lecture N° 18: Displacing Sounds – Music through Space and Tradition

Concert + talk in English
Antoine Läng (CH) – voice, jaw harp
Anouck Genthon (FR/CH) – violin
David Meier (CH) ...
imp[or]trait #5: Alfred 23 Harth – “Life Can Be A Gestalt In Time”

Talk in German
Guest: Alfred 23 Harth
Moderation: Mathias Maschat
Unfortunately, due to Corona, the conversation has to be canceled ...
Symposium: Erfahrungsraum Improvisation (“Improvisation as a Space for Experience”)

Erfahrungsraum Improvisation (“Improvisation as a Space for Experience”)
7th Symposium at the exploratorium berlin
With Simon Rose (keynote), Guro Gravem ...
Sound & Lecture N° 17: Svetlana Maraš & Biliana Voutchkova

Concert + Talk in English
Svetlana Maraš (RS / CH) – electronics
Biliana Voutchkova (BG / DE) – violin, voice
key_concepts #6: Körperlichkeit – Bewegung / Freiheit

Talk in German
Guest: Corinna Eikmeier
Moderation: Mathias Maschat
The key_concepts series by Mathias Maschat addresses key concepts, terms, theories ...
imp[or]trait #4: echtzeitmusik – “Generations”
![imp[or]trait #4: echtzeitmusik – “Generations”](https://exploratorium-berlin.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/21-11-11_echtzeitmusik_by_explo_JojiWakita_SergeiMaklyuk_final-768x768-400x400.jpg)
Talk in English
Guests: Alexander Markvart, Rieko Okuda, Ignaz Schick und Alexander von Schlippenbach
Moderation: Mathias Maschat
echtzeitmusik – ...
leeways #2: Mattin – “Social Dissonance”

Talk in German
Guest: Mattin
Moderation: Mathias Maschat
The computer musician, performance artist and noise theorist Mattin is the ...
What IIIF? Berlin 2021 – “Improvisation and Memory”

The 5th WHAT IIIF? Festival, an international research festival of interdisciplinary improvisation, takes place in the exploratorium berlin. (The festival ...
Symposium: Sinn und Präsenz in Improvisation

6th symposium at the exploratorium berlin
An event by the DENKRAUM IMPROVISATION
PARTICIPATION ONLY VIA LIVESTREAM: https://www.youtube.com/exploratoriumberlin
Unfortunately, due to ...
Sound & Lecture N° 16: Aspect Seeing – An Artistic Re-Reading

Nicola L. Hein (DE) – guitar, electronics
Christian Grüny (DE) – text, philosophy
Simon Rose (UK/DE) – baritone saxophone
Claudia ...
imp[or]trait #3: Fred Frith – “Improvisation has been central to almost everything I’ve done.”
![imp[or]trait #3: Fred Frith – “Improvisation has been central to almost everything I’ve done.”](https://exploratorium-berlin.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/fred-frith_by-heike.liss_web-683x1024-267x400.jpeg)
Talk in English
Guest: Fred Frith
Moderation: Mathias Maschat
“Improvisation has been central to almost everything I’ve done.”
In the ...
imp[or]trait #2: 1990/2020 – echtzeitmusik
![imp[or]trait #2: 1990/2020 – echtzeitmusik](https://exploratorium-berlin.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/collage-Kopie-768x768-400x400.jpg)
Talk in German
Guests: Burkhard Beins, Andrea Neumann & Ignaz Schick
Moderation: Mathias Maschat
“The term ‘Echtzeitmusik’ (trans. real ...
key_concepts #5: Materiality / Resonance – The FAAB (Feedback-Actuated Augmented Bass)

Talk in English
Guest: Adam Pultz Melbye
Moderation: Mathias Maschat
In the fifth edition of the Denkraum series key_concepts, ...
leeways #1: Bob Ostertag – “Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampat”

Talk in English
20.00 MEZ (UTC +01)
leeways #1: Bob Ostertag – “Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampat”
Guest: ...
key_concepts #4: Materialität / Klangfarbe – Präparationen und Objekte

Talk in German
Guest: Magda Mayas
Moderation: Mathias Maschat
In the fourth edition of the Denkraum series key_concepts, Mathias Maschat ...
key_concepts #3: Improvisieren als Handeln

Talk in German
Guest: Silvana K. Figueroa-Dreher
Moderation: Mathias Maschat
In the third edition of the new key_concepts series, ...
key_concepts #2: John Stevens – From the Spontaneous Music Ensemble to Search & Reflect

Talk in English
Guest: Richard Scott
Moderation: Mathias Maschat
In the second edition of the new Denkraum series key_concepts, ...
imp[or]trait #1: Mazen Kerbaj and the Irtijal International Festival of Experimental Music in Lebanon
![imp[or]trait #1: Mazen Kerbaj and the Irtijal International Festival of Experimental Music in Lebanon](https://exploratorium-berlin.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/collage_final-759x1024-296x400.jpg)
Talk in English language + solo trumpet performance
Guest: Mazen Kerbaj
Moderation: Mathias Maschat
imp[or]trait is a new series ...
key_concepts #1: Kulturelle Rahmungen improvisierter Musik

Talk in German language
key_concepts is a new series of discussions in the Denkraum Improvisation, which takes up certain aspects ...
Lab – Lectures about Improvisation

Talk and performance with REINHARD GAGEL and MATHIAS MASCHAT. The previous and the new head of the Theory and Research ...
International Symposium: Current Research on Improvisation

Presentation and discussion of current research on the phenomenon of improvisation
After several symposia on special research topics of improvisation ...
Sound and lecture N° 14: International Symbiosis – Artistic Research

Christoph Baumann (CH) – piano | Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen (DK) – various instruments | Alessandro Bertinetto (IT) – philosophy | Helmut ...