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Apr 2-12 CIVITELLA RANIERI Short term residency in Umbria Collaborative working with filmmaker Liina Siib (Talliin), writer Anna Weidenholzer (Vienna), and sculptor Shahpour Pouyan (New York). 19 Apr STERRE-WAT-VONKEL Antjie Krog and Christian Kesten performing poetry ǀXam-poems from an extinguished click sound language in translations by Antjie Krog. Gouden Ganzenveer 2018 Amsterdam May 12 maulwerker performing music VOKALE RÄUME [VOCAL SPACES] • Boris Filanovsky Discantata World Premiere – 17' for six voices • Sabine Ercklentz Gerätepark WP – 20' for 4 performers, 6 mobile loudspeakers, and stereo–PA • Jule Flierl Dissociation Study WP – 7' for 3 voices INTERMISSION • Christian Kesten UNTITLED #20 WP – 40' for choir (20 voices in 5 groups) MAULWERKER Ariane Jessulat, Henrik Kairies, Christian Kesten, Katarina Rasinski, Tilmann Walzer, Steffi Weismann. GUESTS Zoé Alibert, Dorothea Braun, Audrey Chen, Fernanda Farah, María Ferrara, Heather Frasch, Katia Guedes, Zoe Knights, Alexey Kokhanov, Olga Kozmanidze, Rebecca Lane, Renata Sachs, Heike Schmidt, Hanna Schörken, Ela Spalding Saturday, 12 May, 2018 | 8pm Ballhaus Ost | Pappelallee 15 | 10437 Berlin May 27-29 SCHICHTEN [LAYERS]. Portrait Concert and Symposium Michael Hirsch • 27 May Portrait Concert with Ensemble ilinx Artistic direction: Leah Muir and Christian Kesten • 28/29 May Symposium with guests from science and arts: Anna Clementi, Andreas Dorfner, Barbara Gronau, Ariane Jeßulat, Christian Kesten, Mathias Lehmann, Gisela Nauck, Roland Quitt, Matthias Rebstock, Charlotte Seither, Martin Supper a.o. | Symposium direction: Ariane Jeßulat, Christian Kesten, Irene Kletschke 27 – 29 May, 2018 Universität der Künste Berlin Bundesallee 1-12 | 10719 Berlin 3 June STIMMT! Festival intersonanzen Potsdam Music for voices MAULWERKER Kunsthaus sans titre Französische Str. 16 | Potsdam 26 June DURST&FRUCHT A work for voices, instruments, video projections by Annette Schmucki with Ensembles Maulwerker and Proton premiered at Musikfestival Berne 9.9.2017 Lucerne | Switzerland Sep 7/8 BEIJING commission for a new piece 7 & 8 September, 2018 Beijing, China 23 Sep BREAKFAST OPERA by Makiko Nishikaze for 5 voices, objects, audio recordings, video projections MAULWERKER Ariane Jessulat, Henrik Kairies, Christian Kesten, Tilmann Walzer, Steffi Weismann Composition / direction: Makiko Nishikaze | stage/video: Steffi Weismann & Hsuan Huang Festival MIXED ZONE Contemporary music-theatre between narration and abstraction 20-23 September, 2018 Acker Stadt Palast | Ackerstr. 169/170 | 10115 Berlin Nov 30-Dec 2 LABOR SONOR : CHOREOGRAPHING SOUND music composers composing for dancers. dancers performing music. Transdisciplinary Festival & Symposium with composers Brandon LaBelle, Matteo Fargion, Hanna Hartman, Kaffe Matthews, Andrea Neumann, Yan Jun | Festival direction: Matthias Haenisch and Christian Kesten 30 November – 2 December, 2018 Ballhaus Ost | Pappelallee 15 | 10437 Berlin