VARIOUS

The Sound Arts programme at the Bern Academy of the Arts (HKB), under the direction of Teresa Carrasco, is delighted to present the 25th DEGEM CD. Selected and curated by lecturers, artists, musicians and researchers working on the programme it pursues the creation of a plural Sonic Planet. With this aim, the compilation is dedicated to the sonic exploration of our planet - from natural soundscapes and urban rhythms to imaginary worlds created by technology. Conceptually it responds to current ecological, political and aesthetic crises and invites sonic imaginaries that reveal and generate alternative possibilities. The nine works selected by the jury all respond to the call for compositions that design a disorienting sonic planet: a sonic world that sounds the possibility of this world in its plurality and from the in- between, making audible its invisibilities and even what we might not hear. In this sense composition becomes a worlding, a means to reveal and make accessible the plural possibilities of this world. Putting into doubt the certainty of a singular, cartographic scheme and certain vista, revealing instead the richness of the world beyond its (border) lines and Cartesian perspective. The compilation includes electroacoustic pieces by Dorothee Schabert, Denise Ritter, Leon Goltermann, Jutta Ravenna, Claudia Robles-Angel, Sabine Schäfer, Gerald Fiebig, Hiromi Ishii and Sibylle Pomorin.
Curated by Lejla Carrasco, Michael Harenberg, Benoit Piccand, Tobias Marco Rüetschi, Cathy van Eck and Salome Voegelin. Design & production by Marc Behrens.