Heroines Of Sound festival will return to Berlin next month, and has announced its full programme for this year’s edition.
The festival, which platforms female trailblazers in electronic music from both the past and the present, takes place at Radialsystem. Programming draws from music, video art, workshops, panel discussions and more.
The young polish ensemble Kompopolex will present new works by Kelley Sheehan, Stellan Veloce, Sofie Meyer, Greta Eacott, Marta Śniady and Monika Dalach, performed in Berlin for the first time.
Elsewhere, the soloist ensemble PHØNIX16 present the world premiere of Marisol Jiménez’s ‘Maŝinika Deliro’ – a combination of performance art and electroacoustic sound synthesis that “virtually transforms the human body into a sound generator through the interplay of electronics and voice, shaking up our ideas about sound with rattling vocal chords and false vocal folds”.
The longstanding artist Katalin Ladik, a pioneer of acoustic poetry in the former Yugoslavia in the 1960s and 1970s, will also be spotlighted. She presents a new work commissioned by the festival, ‘Membrane Universe’, while younger artists and authors like Ira Hadžić and Swantje Lichtenstein will also be part of the programme.
The Irish Quiet Music Ensemble will present works by Karen Power, Kathy Hinde and Anna Murray, and guest curator Julia Mihály will debut her new version of ‘18WEST – Songs For The Downfall’. Other performers include Theresa Stroetges, AKA Golden Diskó Ship; electric bassist Farida Amadou; and multifaceted Ukrainian electronic sound artist Zavoloka.
Heroines Of Sound will take place from July 11 to 13, 2024. Find more information here.
