Presented in collaboration with Ultima Olso Contempoary Music Festival as a part of an open curator call to participants of the Sounds Now Curating Diversity Course held at Onassis Stegi, Athens (2021), Time of Music, Viitasaari (2022) and Ultima, Oslo (2023). The performance “Our Voices” is a tribute to the diversity and unity within the […]
Presented in collaboration with Ultima Olso Contempoary Music Festival as a part of an open curator call to participants of the Sounds Now Curating Diversity Courses held at Onassis Stegi, Athens (2021), Time of Music, Viitasaari (2022) and Ultima, Oslo (2023) A Song of Woes, We offer Steeps, curated by Nischal Khadka, is a musical […]
In 2023, Musica is organising the biannual “Labo Curatorship”, bringing together experienced coaches with a diverse group of creatives. During the Labo, Musica and a guest coach bring guidance in artistic approach, business, production and communication to the participants. The new curators/co-creators then take part in Babelut Parcours @ASTRA. About Babelut Parcours Babelut Parcours is […]
Friday 22 September and Saturday 23 September 2023, 9.30-17.00 Curating Voices of Otherness: Women, non-binary, and transgender persons’ creative resilience in a world of wars, crises, and political turmoil Register here by September 7 Wars, conflicts, and various crises are never gender-neutral because they affect the whole of society, which is itself not gender-neutral. Those crises, […]
with Toks Dada, Du Yun, Julia Gerlach and Vigdis Jakobsdottir Curatorship and curationism have become important buzzwords in the art world and world at large during the last decades. The classical and new music field, the ensembles and festivals involved are also moving towards more hybrid, collaborative projects and processes that involve other art forms […]
Led by Sounds Now mentors and experts from the music world and other professional fields, this course, held this year at Onassis Stegi in Athens, Greece, explores conceptual notions of curating. The new music world is often perceived as elitist, niche and cut off from ‘the real world’ in an ivory tower of institutionally protected […]
Postponed from last year due to Covid restrictions, Musica’s curating lab is back on! Musica, Impulse Centre for Music, is hosting its first Curating Lab within the framework of Sounds Now. Developed by London-based French-Cameroonian curator Christine Eyene, the Curating Lab will take Pelt (Belgium) as a point of departure, and its position as border […]
What Does Freedom Sound Like? Curating Diversity, Part 26–7 May 2021, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. CETFree, online (registration required) Continuing and building on the Curating Diversity symposium in September 2020, this 2-day event invites participants to explore the sounds of freedom that are continuously being created in our world – beyond Eurocentric power structures and […]
September 25, 2020, 10.30 a.m. to 8 p.m. CET Co-hosted by the Akademie der Künste, inm-berlin and Ultima in Berlin, Germany The livestream can be freely viewed on this website, as well as in the following places: YouTube – Akademie der Künste Facebook – Initiative Neue Musik Berlin About the symposium The symposium “Curating Diversity […]
