Future Soundscapes Festival

What does the future sound like? Future Soundscapes investigates the past and present of science-fiction sounds at the intersection of popular culture, music and film. With sound lectures and talks, concerts, installations, screenings and performances.

Whether it is the mechanical squeaking of the joints of humanoid robots, the ominously thudding rhythm of machine cities, the digital crackling of bits and bytes or the celestial sounds of the infinite expanses of the universe, we associate each of these soundscapes with specific visual worlds from the utopian to the full-on dystopian. While the genre’s narratives and images are already omnipresent, widely discussed and etched into our collective memory, sound has remained a blank space in this discourse. That’s why Future Soundscapes now sets out to explore sound as an essential element in the conception of future worlds, be it as noise, tones or music.

Future Soundscapes Festival – Tag 1
7pm: Anna Schürmer (interpolationen.de) - Opening Sound Lecture
8pm: Manfred Miersch - Sound Lecture / Performance with subharchord and theremin
9pm: Jan Brauer - DJ accompaniment DAS HIMMELSSCHIFF / A TRIP TO MARS (1918)

Future Soundscapes Festival – Tag 2
2 & 4pm: Sound Walk with Karl Heinz Jeron
Future Soundscapes Festival - Sound Walk
6pm: Afrofuturistic SciFi-Shorts, short film programme hosted by Peggy Piesche
8:30pm: Gato Preto – Concert

Future Soundscapes Festival - Tag 3
2 & 4pm: Electrical Walk with Karl Heinz Jeron
Future Soundscapes Festival - Sound Walk
7pm: Liam Young - Lecture Performance: City Everywhere. Stories from the Post Anthropocene
8pm: Quadrature - Performance: LMG#2
9pm: Felix Kubin with Hubert Zemler and Josephin Böttger - Audiovisual Performance, Untitled
10pm: Screening: Bowie 2001 (Fritz von Runte)

A project by silent green Film Feld Forschung gGmbH.
Funded by Musicboard Berlin GmbH.