20,000 visitors were captivated by the Münsterland-wide sound festival SOUNDSEEING at the last edition in 2021. In 2023, SOUNDSEEING will again specifically link international sound artists with the NRW sound art scene, which is considered one of the most active and high-profile in Europe.
The festival will take place from March to August 2023. The festival programme includes four sound art exhibitions, sound art installations, extraordinary concerts, sound art projects for participation, sound art workshops and interactions…
Students of the Suchan Kinoshita class | University of Fine Arts Münster | Kulturgut Haus Nottbeck
Students from the Suchan Kinoshita class at the Münster Art Academy are developing interventions at the cultural property Haus Nottbeck. With the place itself as a starting point, as an instrument that can be played, the students engage with it, explore it and let it inspire their works.
Seeing a place by hearing, only seeing, only hearing or hearing by seeing. The extent to which this interplay can take place must be constantly explored anew and can never be taken for granted. Everything that is brought along fits into the existing, plays with it and explores it. The goal is an interplay that cannot arise anywhere else in this way, but could be practised everywhere in this way. At the end of the two-week work phase at the cultural estate, the works created on site in the interior and exterior spaces will be presented.
The artists are Alma Mariama Camara, Anja Mothes, Bastian Buddenbrock, Jennifer Rommel, Leon-Maxim Lindner, Malin Schlebusch, Marie Parohl, Micael Gonçalves Ribeiro, Sophie Rebentisch.
Opening: Sat 25.03.2023 | 3.00 p.m. with artistic actions and performances under the motto “I like hats; I brought a helmet.”
Location: Kulturgut Haus Nottbeck | Landrat-Predeick-Allee 1 | 59302 Oelde
Opening hours: Museum: Tue – Fri 2 – 6 p.m. | Sat, Sun and public holidays 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Outdoor exhibition presentations are possible at any time.
Admission free
Interactive sound art project | Muzak & Riha | Kulturgut Haus Nottbeck
In the multimedia transformer in Nottbeck, Muzak & Riha transform image into sound and sound into image, image sound or sound image. In the process, material is alternately stretched back and forth between the artists. Losses, interference and fragmentation become visible and audible. Found footage, literary text fragments, a phonetic alphabet and specially recorded material serve as input material. Muzak & Riha will work live on site and invite the viewers to interact. Through the participants, the project is continuously evolving and gaining focus every day, although a certain unfinished or incomplete nature remains until the end.
Opening: 09.05. from 2 p.m.
Location: Kulturgut Haus Nottbeck | Landrat-Predeick-Allee 1 | 59302 Oelde
Opening hours: Museum: Tue – Fri 2 – 6 p.m. | Sat, Sun and public holidays 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Admission free
12.05. – 04.06. | COFFEE TIME and EIGHT DOUBLE SUDOKUS
Multimedia sound art | Paul Panhuysen | Ausstellungshalle Hawerkamp
Paul Panhuysen (Netherlands), who died in 2015, was one of the pioneers of multimedia sound art and was influenced by the international Fluxus movement since the 1960s. As early as 1989, one of his spectacular long-string installations was shown at the back of the cuba in Münster. We have made a selection of the works that can be realized especially in the exhibition hall at Hawerkamp with his widow Hélène Panhuysen. The exhibition of his works, which are still current and influential today, at the Kunsthalle Hawerkamp in Münster is supported by the Panhuysen Estate. The first solo exhibition of his works post mortem, is realized with the support of the ZKM – zentrum für kunst und medien karlsruhe.
Opening: 12.05. at 7 p.m.
Welcome: Maria Winkel, Mayor of the City of Münster
Location: Exhibition Hall Hawerkamp | Hawerkamp 31 | Hall B | 48155 Münster
Opening hours: Fri 5 – 8 p.m. | Sat 3 – 6 p.m. | Sun 12 – 6 p.m.
Free admission
14.05. – 23.07. | Schattenklänge | Exhibition and performance
Peter Vogel and Achim Vogel Muranyi | Burg Vischering
Achim Vogel Muranyi and Peter Vogel Heritage present two interactive sound walls from two different eras. The analogue sound wall “Rhythmic Sounds I” from the 1990s – an electronic wall installation with 18 light sensors – and the digital sound wall “Techno Soundwall” from the present – a computer-programmed version based on audio samples. Both sound walls are inspired by club and techno music and can be played intuitively.
Both artists are linked by seven years of close collaboration. While the artist Peter Vogel, who died in 2017, laid the foundation of interactive sound object art, Achim Vogel’s work can be seen as a logical further development. Differences as well as similarities are not only of a technical nature, they also reflect their own zeitgeist in terms of content, which is particularly clear in the juxtaposition of their sound walls.
Opening with live performance Achim Vogel Muranyi: 14.05. at 3 p.m.
Location: Burg Vischering | Berenbrock 1 | 59348 Lüdinghausen
Opening hours: Tue – Sun 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Admission: Combiticket main and outer castle: adults 7,50 € | reduced 5,00 € | children from 6 and youths up to 18 years 3,50 €
Family ticket I: 1 adult and min. 2 children € 13.00
Family ticket II: 2 adults and min. 2 children € 20.00
Groups of 20 or more: 6,00 € | School groups: 2,50 € per person
Sound installation | BLACK BOX cuba-cultur Münster
At cuba, parallel to the sound art exhibition Paul Panhuysen, the installation ANTENNA by the young Belgian artist Floris Vanhoof will be shown, which translates “omnipresent electro-magnetic waves” – such as imploding stars, distant lightning, weather balloons, aeroplanes, car keys and telephones – into delightful piano sounds.
Opening: 19.05. at 7 p.m.
Location: BLACK BOX cuba-cultur | Achtermannstraße 10 | 48143 Münster
Opening hours: Tue – Fri 5 – 8 p.m. | Sat 3 – 6 p.m. | Sun 12 – 6 p.m.
Free admission
Marion Haak-Schulenburg | Mathis Mayr | Ravi Srinivasan | Gregor Schulenburg | Universitiy of Music Münster
A new musical concert format full of experiences for the audience is presented by the four-member ensemble “Ears Wide Open”. Pieces, songs and dances from different musical traditions serve as a starting point for improvisations, which are sometimes played groovy and rousing, sometimes lyrical and contemplative. The result is a concert experience in which touching, great music resounds as if by magic, in which everyone is involved – an impressive experience full of sound, interaction and togetherness, which has already enchanted the Berlin audience.
The ensemble consists of the Indian tabla virtuoso Ravi Srinivasan, who is also trained in classical Indian vocal techniques and is a virtuoso whistler. Mathis Mayr participates on the cello, and Gregor Schulenburg plays the flute, Armenian duduk and Japanese Zen flute Kyotaku. As host and expert in collaborative music making and community music, singer Marion Haak-Schulenburg directs the event. The audience is invited to join the ensemble with various instruments, singing, snapping, clapping and existing small instruments.
Start: 7.30 p.m.
Place: University of Music Münster | Ludgeriplatz 1 | 48151 Münster
Admission: AK 10 € / children, youth and students free
Sound installations and join-in actions | City center Ibbenbüren
What does a metallophone sound like? What is an H2Orchestra? What is behind a sound channel?
The only way to answer these questions is to take a trip to Ibbenbüren’s city center. There, on June 3, the Mobile Music Museum by artist Michael Bradke can be tried out and explored. Sound art to touch and do yourself!
Location: City center | 49477 Ibbenbüren
Duration: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Admission free
04.06. – 02.07. | Albrecht Fersch +++ extended until 16.07. +++
Sound art exhibition | Ibbenbüren
Albrecht Fersch, the performance, action, sound and installation artist from Berlin, brings the spaces of a vacant store in Ibbenbüren’s city center to new life with his installations “Gong-Gang“ and “Tam-Tam-Stamm“.
Hanging from the ceiling are cake pans, pots, bells, tin cans, the grille of a fan, a disused cymbal of a drum kit. With construction helmets on their heads, equipped with mallets of different lengths depending on their height, the visitors walk along under the objects and elicit a wide variety of sounds from them by touching the mallets. If several people move in the room at the same time, wondrous temporary random compositions are created.
Part of the interactive sound ensemble is also the “Tam-Tam-Stamm“ by Albrecht Fersch. A large hollowed-out tree trunk equipped with variously twisted metal rods. It can be played by the audience like a musical instrument. There are no limits to curiosity and the joy of discovery, each sound work is a unique improvisation!
Opening: 04.06. at 11.00 a.m. | with sound performance by Albrecht Fersch on the “Tam-Tam-Stamm“
Finissage: 16.07. at 11.00 a.m.
Location: Kanalstraße 2 | 49477 Ibbenbüren
Opening hours: Mon – Fri 10.00 a.m. – 6.00 p.m. | Sat 10.00 a.m. – 2.00 p.m.
Marion Haak-Schulenburg | Mathis Mayr | Ravi Srinivasan | Gregor Schulenburg | Landesmusikakademie NRW in Heek
A new musical concert format full of experiences for the audience is presented by the four-member ensemble “Ears Wide Open”. Pieces, songs and dances from different musical traditions serve as a starting point for improvisations, which are sometimes played groovy and rousing, sometimes lyrical and contemplative. The result is a concert experience in which touching, great music resounds as if by magic, in which everyone is involved – an impressive experience full of sound, interaction and togetherness, which has already enchanted the Berlin audience.
The ensemble consists of the Indian tabla virtuoso Ravi Srinivasan, who is also trained in classical Indian vocal techniques and is a virtuoso whistler. Mathis Mayr participates on the cello, and Gregor Schulenburg plays the flute, Armenian duduk and Japanese Zen flute Kyotaku. As host and expert in collaborative music making and community music, singer Marion Haak-Schulenburg directs the event. The audience is invited to join the ensemble with various instruments, singing, snapping, clapping and existing small instruments.
Start: 7.30 p.m.
Place: Landesmusikakademie NRW | Burg Nienborg | Steinweg 2 | 48619 Heek
Admission: AK 10 € / children, youth and students free
05.06. – 06.06. | Ralf Schreiber and Martina Lückener
Workshop for an elementary school | Kulturwerkstatt Altenberge
Workshop sound installation for a fourth grade class of an elementary school in Altenberge.
Workshop (not open to the public): 05.06. from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. and 06.06. from 8 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
The sound installation can be seen and heard in Altenberge until August 12.
Location: Park at the Heimatcarrée | Heimatverein Altenberge e.V. | Friedhofstraße 9 | 48341 Altenberge
Concert performance | BLACK BOX at cuba-cultur Münster
Fine Kwiatkowski, dance | Gandolfo Pagano, music | Willehad Grafenhorst, music & video projection
MONDOLETTOSOTTOILCORVO blends the experiences of two musicians, raised in opposite regions of Europe. They met in 2018 in the Madonie region of Sicily and were surprised by the synergy they immediately felt. This gave birth to the idea of this project.
“musica molto interessante” (Battiti, RAI 3, 10/28/2021).
“… in the sound energetics of this music one senses the ruthlessness of this natural event, to which animal and human disturbances apparently cannot harm anything.” (Gisela Nauck, DLF, 4/24/2021)
Improvisation is a practice in which every action is brought about by listening to each other; this creates a dialogue. The musicians interact permanently, give impulses – every action is at the same time cause and effect of unforeseen developments that create real compositions.
06.06. – 12.08. | A special soundART: chirping machines in the park
Exhibition project of the class 4 c of the Johannes-Grundschule | Altenberge
It is still chirping in the trees at the Old Cemetery until August 12: In a two-day workshop, the students soldered together small solar cell-powered “chirping machines“ together with the sound artist Ralf Schreiber and made matching (sound) bodies out of clay with the artist Martina Lückener. These were worked into the bark of the mighty lime trees on the park grounds. A special feature of the workshop was the combination of sound and form – each child had to think conceptually – and the different motor requirements: all the children worked both with the soldering iron and the
fragile tiny technology as well as with the haptically demanding material clay. Attaching the objects to the tree bark also presented some challenges, which the students solved smartly.
Location: Park area Alter Friedhof | Ortsmitte | 48341 Altenberge
In cooperation with the Heimatverein Altenberge and the Kulturwerkstatt.
Open air sound art installation Michael Bradke | City centre Bocholt
Sound artist Michael Bradke will be a guest at the Music School Festival with his interactive installations KlangKanal and WasserOrchester. The water orchestra consists of over 50 instruments and mechanical devices that elicit wondrous sounds from water or use water to produce sound. An imaginative sound exploration for children and adults. At several locations in the city centre of Bocholt!
Fri 16.06. 2 – 6 p.m. | Sat 17.06. 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. | Neutorplatz 1a – forecourt of the Stadtsparkasse branch | 46395 Bocholt
17.06. – 20.08. | Emeka Ogboh | Chi dị Ebere [God is merciful]
Sound art exhibition | DA, Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst
With his sound art installation Chi dị Ebere [God is merciful], the globally active sound artist Emeka Ogboh (Nigeria, Berlin) will design the sound art exhibition at DA, Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst, Steinfurt district. In his works, he explores how personal, public and collective memories and histographies are transferred, transformed, transcribed and inscribed in sounds and landscapes.
Opening: 17.06. at 5 p.m. | Finissage: 20.08.
Location: DA, Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst | Klosterstraße 10 | 48477 Hörstel
Opening hours: Tue – Sat 2 – 6 p.m. | Sun and public holidays 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Admission free
Guided tours through the exhibition: 25.06. | 02.07. | 16.07. | 30.07. | 13.08. each at 3 p.m. | 4 € per person
Registration: +49 (0) 2551 694215
18.06. | Sound art picnic in the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen
Scholarship holders of the Künstlerdorf, sound installations by Michael Bradke, mobile music workshop, percussion quartet...
Drums, monster flutes, water instruments and tubular bells – sound art to touch and participate in can be experienced by the whole family at the Sound Art Picnic organised by the NRW State Music Academy and Künstlerdorf Schöppingen. Current and former scholarship holders will present works inspired by sound art in the buildings of the artists’ village. Among them is the Ukrainian scholarship holder Anna Melnykova, who combines sound and photography in a novel way. The music play actions “KlangKanal“ and “Wasser-Orchester“ (Water Music) by Michael Bradke are aimed at people from 2 years to old age and form a musical open-air landscape on the grounds of the artists’ village. With the Mobile Music Workshop Münsterland, all generations can try their hand at making instruments from everyday materials and try them out directly. The Altenberge percussion quartet will provide a sound refreshment with groovy pieces. Picnic baskets are available for sale, and you are welcome to bring your own ingredients for the picnic!
Duration: 12 – 18 h
The event is suitable for visually impaired and blind people. Guides will be available by appointment. Please register by calling 02555 93810 or info@stiftung-kuenstlerdorf.de
Location: Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen | Feuerstiege 6 | 48624 Schöppingen
Free admission
Organiser: Landesmusikakademie NRW and Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen
SOUNDSEEING – the Münsterland-wide sound art festival will open KUHzeit23 in the kubaai – the newly developing quarter between the two LWL textile museums – with an open air performance by SPLASH Percussion NRW. From body percussion to drum salvos, African and South American rhythms, ragtime to minimal music, meditative or explosive: SPLASH and its young drummers and percussionists guarantee a sound-strong concert experience!
On the programme are:
“Carousel“ by David Friedman, a swinging virtuoso piece for vibraphone and marimba – composed by the Berlin jazz star on vibe
“Boxing Day“ by Wolfgang Reifeneder – a fun piece for any number of players on everyday objects, preferably cardboard boxes.
“Music for pieces of wood“ by Steve Reich – a classic of minimal music
“Le Chant de serpent“ by Eckhard Kopetzki for four players on fur instruments
“Trio per uno“ by Nebosja Zivkovic – a powerful, virtuoso number for three, on one drum only
Playing times: 11.00 – 11.45 a.m. and 1.45 – 2.00 p.m.
Venue: Podium bridge on the kubaai premises | Navi: Industriestraße 5 | 46395 Bocholt
Free admission
Open air sound art installation Michael Bradke | rock'n'popmuseum Gronau
As part of LagaKoller, Michael Bradke will present his “Giganten-Orchester“ and the metallophone. Interaction expressly desired!
In the museum: guided tours for the visually impaired in the exhibition.
Sensors, microphones, photocells, motors, magnets, LEDs or hypodermic needles – Achim Vogel Muranyi uses these elements to create his interactive light and sound walls. However, they are only completed by the viewers. The installations react to sounds and movement and create ever new optical and sonic combinations. Colors light up, small elements of the installations start to move, sounds emerge. A breathtaking process between actor and artwork begins.
Experimental, varied and very lively: Improvisation concert with the trio Jaap Blonk, voice and electronics | Steffen Roth, drums | Stephan Froleyks at TextilWerk Bocholt.
Experimental, varied and very lively: Improvisation concert with the trio Jaap Blonk, voice and electronics | Steffen Roth, drums | Stephan Froleyks at rock’n’popmuseum Gronau
Percussion interactions at the summer festival | DA, Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst | Hörstel
For the finissage of the sound art presentation by Emeka Ogboh (Nigeria, Berlin) at the summer festival in the DA Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst. Several short performances by the ensemble SPLASH Perkussion NRW are on the programme.
Duration: 2 – 5 p.m.
Location: DA, Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst | Klosterstraße 10 | 48477 Hörstel
Free admission
23.08. | Participation concert with Michael Bradke
Closed event for primary schools | Bürgerhaus Ibbenbüren
The MobileMusikMuseum is an interactive journey through the world of music. Michael Bradke, an experienced tour guide, will show the children how music is made in different ways with hands, fingers, cheeks, head and mouth. The journey will take us to Spain, India, Africa, the North Pole, America and the South Seas. On a large world map, the children can follow the route and experience and learn musical games, music, dances and “clapping stories“ with 15 clappers from different countries.
The artist Michael Bradke does not focus on an in-depth presentation of individual cultures, but tries to show “anthropological constants“ of music that exist worldwide. The focus is on the connection between music and movement, dance, language, mathematics, the expression of feelings as well as the use of the body as an instrument. These universal connections are conveyed to the children in a vivid and action-oriented way.
Duration: 10.00 – 11.00 a.m.
Place: Bürgerhaus | Wilhelmstraße 16 | 49477 Ibbenbüren Closed event: Primary schools will be contacted.
Total sound art… with: Sound concert by Klang Duo Osnabrück and music act by flutist Pia Marei Hauser, Rheine Music School. Workshops and installations: Yannik Richter (requested), Light Art & Sound – Frederic Schröder, Klanginstitut Köln, Michael Bradke and others.
Klang Duo Osnabrück “Chillin’ Grooves” – Musician’s life over beats and spherical sounds
The music is characterised by a rather calm tempo, beyond virtuosity. The pieces can be characterised as a varying body of work with flowing transitions. The combination of electronics, programmed colour-light beams and natural instruments such as RAV drum, drum and didgeridoo create a very special sound experience. The KlangDuo invites you to groove along in a relaxed way.
The Klanginstitut Köln offers a Sonic Pi workshop. Participants can programme their own sounds without any special prior knowledge. Participants learn the basics of the programme and are shown step by step how to produce their own sounds. Sonic Pi is a free open-source music programme that was originally developed for the small computer Raspberry Pi. The programme uses the computer as a musical instrument.
The Klanginstitut Köln will also be showing a sound art installation. The idea came from the Lockdown: they wanted to bridge the spatial distances musically-acoustically. For the KlangKunst Festival, the Klanginstitut is developing a Münsterland map: for all the places represented in the SOUNDSEEING Festival, characteristic sounds will be processed into musical loops that the viewers can mix and arrange themselves. Loudspeakers will be set up around the instrument so that the sounds of the places can be heard from the respective compass direction. In this way, one can acoustically overcome the distances between the places and go on a listening journey.
anni YU (she/her) is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and singer living in Cologne and moving musically between neo-soul and melodic techno.
Under the motto Love is Love, anni YU uses her music as a platform to give queer people space, to become visible and to create exchange.
Michael Bradke and his “Mobiles Musik Museum“ present the “Wasser Orchester”. The interactive sound installation can be played by 40 people at the same time. We look forward to creative, spontaneous compositions!
Do you have questions about a barrier-free visit or a guided tour of the sound art exhibitions? Would you like to reserve tickets or register for a workshop? Please simply contact the respective venue directly! You can find an overview of all venues with contact addresses and directions link here:
