Festival BLAUES RAUSCHEN 2026 Tag 5

In the organizer's words:

Festival BLAUES RAUSCHEN 2026 Day 5
Anomalies of listening

With SunJeong Hwang, Stephanie Castonguay and NKISI, this evening shifts the focus from the work to the process. Instead of a finished product, sound appears here as a movement between material, technology and memory - fragile, permeable, open.
Electronic media are not treated as an abstract surface, but are exposed in their material and ecological conditionality. Disintegrating sound carriers, hacked devices, hybrid interfaces and archives of field recordings make audible and visible that every digital practice is based on concrete resources, decisions and power relations. Technology is not thought of as neutral, but as a carrier of history, selection and exclusion.

At the same time, the concert itself becomes an experimental set-up. Listening together as a processual event in space. Artifacts, disturbances and supposed errors become productive, as breaks in the system, as indications of what would otherwise remain hidden. Between noise, polyrhythmic structures, improvisational openness and sensitive signal processing, a dense network is created that forms in the moment and immediately withdraws again.

An evening about the materiality of electronic sounds, about the archive as a contested memory and about listening as a conscious practice in a technologically shaped present, supported by two neighboring venues(Rabbit Hole Theater & Neue Musik Zentrale), which have been shaping the music scene in Essen for years with independent, sophisticated programs.

Price information:

Regular 15€ / Reduced 10 € / All Days ticket at: https://blaues-rauschen.ticket.io/amyKao82/