25th Brandenburg Festival of New Music
intersonanzen 2025
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25th Anniversary of intersonanzen
The intersonanzen New Music Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary, reflecting on the past while looking ahead. Under the theme transreal, the festival will open its doors for eleven days, from May 8 to May 18, 2025. Featuring outstanding contemporary music at new and significant art venues in Potsdam – DAS MINSK Kunsthaus, Museum Barberini, and museum FLUXUS+ – the festival continues its dialogue with other art forms. Additionally, a special concert will take place at Palais Lichtenau.
Contemporary chamber music meets visual art. With a focus on string quartets (Neo, Kairos, Sonar) and the chamber orchestra ART Ensemble NRW, as well as other top international ensembles in a total of 20 concerts, performances and installations (including Black Pencil, LUX:NM, and El Perro Andaluz), the festival fosters interaction with visual artists. Spaces are shaped – musical, sonic, real, surreal, virtual – transreal.
The latest technological advancements in new media and the revolutionization of work processes through AI are creating unprecedented opportunities—and risks. This raises fresh questions about individual perspectives: Does this lead to a new personal reality, virtuality, or even a parallel world?
In a panel discussion led by Prof. Dr. Ulrike Liedtke, composers, artists, and experts—including current Musikfonds fellows—will share their experiences with AI tools and the media of today and tomorrow, engaging in a thought-provoking debate.
To mark the anniversary edition, a documentary on 25 years of intersonanzen will be presented.
The opening day on May 8, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the war—or, as it was often called in the past, the Day of Liberation.
To commemorate this occasion, we have invited Nele Hertling for a conversation. She is the daughter of composer Hanning Schröder, whose family hid a Jewish couple in their home during the Nazi era, saving them from certain death. The outstanding NeoQuartet from Poland will perform his string quartet In Memoriam: Lied der Moorsoldaten.
Programm
Tickets:
for museum FLUXUS+ and Palais Lichtenau:
tickets@intersonanzen.de
Thursday, May 8
Opening at DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam
19:00
Opening of the 25th intersonanzen “transreal” with opening speakers from politics and culture.
Opening of transvisual audio pieces and media library for 25 years of intersonanzen (daily) until May 18, during opening hours.
Video Works by Ralf Hoyer residual_risk, Peter Paul Kubitz & Stefan Lienenkämper helldunkel-mittag, Ludger Kisters translucency, Bettina Kuntzsch & Thomas Gerwin Klangbild#1, Veit Lup & Lothar Voigtländer Masse+Macht, Alex Nowitz Searching the Magpie, Rose Schulze & Helmut Zapf Räume II, Zoran Terzić Space People, Sabine Vogel I see you in the desert and hear the sea
DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam
Max-Planck-Straße 17, 14473 Potsdam
19:30
Opening Concert at DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam
NeoQuartet (PL)
Karolina Piątkowska-Nowicka – Violin, Paweł Kapica – Violin, Michał Markiewicz – Viola, Krzysztof Pawłowski – Violoncello
Sebastian Elikowski-Winkler Shadows of Revolution
Pawel Szymański Four Pieces for String Quartett
Irina Emeliantseva Streichquartett WP
Manuel Rodriguez Valenzuela Patres II
80 Years Since the End of the War: Conversation with Ralf Hoyer & Nele Hertling (née Schröder)
Hanning Schröder in memoriam: Lied der Moorsoldaten (1957)
DAS MINSK Kunsthaus Potsdam
Friday, May 9
DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam
10:00
Transvisual Sound Pieces
In the transvisual sound pieces, we experience the fusion of different perspectives from contemporary and experimental music with various visual languages. We hear and see transreal video works where sound art interacts with object art, dance, nature, visuals, and, in some cases, AI-generated fantasy worlds.
DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam
14:00
Transvisual Listening Hour
Program see May 8 – 19:00
19:30
20:15
Benoît Maubrey and the Audioballerinas, dancers with interactive, electronic sound costumes with Sabine Vogel – Flute, Frida Yngvesson, Malin Hessen, Laura Giuntoli, Risa Kojima – Dancers, Marie Rechsteiner – Choreography, Benoît Maubrey – Artistic Direction
AUDIO BALLERINAS are dancers who generate and embody sound simultaneously. Tone and movement merge into a unity of orchestrated motions and choreographed sounds. In an expansive, multi-acoustic performance, they explore topography, spaces, noises, and lighting conditions.
Sonar-Quartett
Wojciech Garbowski – Violin, Malin Grass – Violin, Ian Anderson – Viola, Konstantin Manaev – Violoncello
Markus Wettstein von nah und fern for string quartet
Susanne Stelzenbach Haut – Streichquartett Nr. 1
Gabriel Iranyi Streichquartett Nr. 5
Sonar-Quartett Interplay 2025 / Improvisation
DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam
Saturday, May 10
DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam
10:00
Transvisual Sound Pieces
In the transvisual sound pieces, we experience the fusion of different perspectives from contemporary and experimental music with various visual languages. We hear and see transreal video works where sound art interacts with object art, dance, nature, visuals, and, in some cases, AI-generated fantasy worlds.
DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam
14:00
Transvisual Listening Hour
Program see May 8 – 19:00
Museum FLUXUS+
18:00
Teufelsberg Holographic quadrophonic installation by Titus Nessel with Gebhard Ullmann (saxophone) and Philipp Gerschlauer (saxophone) incl. concert
The sound installation can be experienced until May 18th during the opening hours of the FLUXUS+ Museum.
This recording in the dome of the former flight control and listening station on Berlin’s Teufelsberg is based on decades of development work. For the first time, it is possible to reproduce the entire spatial impression of the recording situation accurately and realistically with four speakers. As a result, listeners feel as though they are right in the middle of the space where the music is being created.
Concert Gerschlauer-Ullmann Murals
In their sound paintings, Gerschlauer | Ullmann explore the sonic positionality of microtonality and improvised music. Starting from visual wall paintings that function as graphic scores, fragile, multilayered soundscapes emerge.
Museum FLUXUS+
20:30
Ensemble LUX:NM Resonating Rooms: Cycles and Echoes
a multimedia concert
Ruth Velten – Saxophone, Silke Lange – Accordion, Olga Holdorff – Violin, Zoé Cartier – Violoncello, Neus Esarellas Calderón – Synthesizer/Toypiano, Martin Offik – Sound Direction
Nico Sauer Schattenstudie 25a, (Scholar of the AI Program of the Music Fund) (2025) WP
Kristine Tjørgersen – Bubbles for Ensemble and Video (2012)
Ulrich Pogoda Cui bono for Saxophone, Violin, Violoncello (2025) WP
Luc Döbereiner Transkript for Violin, Violoncello, Accordion and Synthesizer (Scholar of the AI Program of the Music Fund) (2025) WP
Charlotte Seither Echoes of O’s Video (2007)
Andreas F. Staffel Shadows of a forgotten Landscape II (2025) WP
DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam
Sunday, May 11
9:30
Soundwalk – Hör-Expedition: Sounds of the City
Guided by: Dr. Michael Schenk & Udo Koloska
How does our hearing change when we listen silently for 90 minutes – with focus or panoramically? Which sounds promote our well-being, and which ones disturb it?
Equipment: Quiet footwear, non-rustling clothing
Number of participants: Max. 12
Registration: 0174-3387603
Meeting point Potsdam main station, West exit
Palais Lichtenau – Klavierkonzert
18:00
Björn Lehmann and Norie Takahashi
Piano pieces for Solo and Four Hands
Frank Petzold Impromtu II vierhändig (2014) WP
Jacek Domagala Sonata No.2 for Piano (2010)
Martin Daske Unterwärts four handed (2003)
Volker Freidel Drei Stücke aus »Atmospheres« WP
Stefan Lienenkämper Auf schmalen Pfaden für Klavier Solo
Arnulf Herrmann Hausmusik vierhändig
Ramina Abdulla-zadé Soprano and Martin Schneuing Piano
Albert Breier Lied for soprano und piano (2023)
Giordano Bruno do Nascimento Im Gespinst (2020)
Christian Jost Der explodierende Kopf (2004)
Irini Amargianski Miniaturen for piano (2012/14)
Alexandra Filonenko WIR for soprano (2022)
Iris Szeghy aus Hesse-Splitter I (2009)
Klaus Schöpp transreal 7 short songs (2025) WP
Palais Lichtenau
Kurfürstenstraße 40, 14467 Potsdam
Monday, May 12
DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam
10:00
Transvisual Sound Pieces
In the transvisual sound pieces, we experience the fusion of different perspectives from contemporary and experimental music with various visual languages. We hear and see transreal video works where sound art interacts with object art, dance, nature, visuals, and, in some cases, AI-generated fantasy worlds.
DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam
14:00
Transvisual Listening Hour
Program see May 8 – 19:00
19:00
Concert of the Municipal Music School “Johann Sebastian Bach”
Museum Barberini – Auditorium
Humboldtstraße 5–6, Alter Markt, 14467 Potsdam
With works by Petr Eben, Angelika and Wolfgang Thiel, Jürgen Runge, Olaf Schmalz, Stefan Einsfelder, Pieter van der Staak, Thierry Tisserand, Bohuslav Martinu, Ramon Lazkano, Wolfgang Thiel, Hans Chemin-Petit, Darius Milhaud, Alexander Tcherepnin
Thursday, May 15
19:30
Timing Questions – Richard Röbel
Contrasted sound worlds of Baroque and contemporary harpsichord music. A collaboration with the NEOS Music Foundation, Richard Röbel – Harpsichord
Johann Sebastian Bach Englische Suite No. 6 d-Moll BWV 811
Tobias Schick Between opposites 1. Arpeggio-Maschine 2. Rush Hour: Presto (2023)
Fabian Blum Mythen der Noskori – Genesis (2025) WP
Mark Andre Un-Fin-II pour clavin (2001)
Francisco Valls Composición enarmónica (1742)
Dietrich Petzold precise blur (2024)
Babette Koblenz Hope (2018)
Adriana Hölszky Decorum (1983)
Museum Barberini
Friday, May 16
Museum Barberini
Museum Barberini
19:00
El Perro Andaluz
Letizia Turini – flute, Arnfried Falk – oboe, Albrecht Scharnweber – clarinet, Ruslan Kratschkowski – accordion
Ralf Hoyer Spuren, verbleibend for accordion, clarinet and playalong (2017)
Thomas Gerwin BiPol IX for flute, oboe, clarinets and accordion (2025) WP
Benjamin Lang Sømnakongens hat WP
Yang Song Petrichor II for flute, oboe, clarinet
Iris ter Shiphorst Fragmente for 2 woodwinds, bass oboe and bass clarinet (2022/23)
Kairos Quartett
Rui C. Antunes – Violin, Fiona Milla Jäntti (as a guest) – Violin, Simone Heilgendorff – Viola, Claudius von Wrochem – Cello
Carola Bauckholdt Lichtung
Ludger Kisters Streichquartett Nr. 3 with live visuals
Makiko Nishikaze mo-ve with video projection
Alex Nowitz Unruhe ist string quartet (2000)
Saturday, May 17
Brückenkonzert Eberswalde
Paul Wunderlich-Haus Eberswalde
Am Markt 1, 16225 Eberswalde
10:30
Good Morning Eberswalde
El Perro Andaluz
Letizia Turini – flute, Arnfried Falk – oboe, Albrecht Scharnweber – clarinet, Ruslan Kratschkowski – accordion
Program see 16 May
Museum Barberini
19:00
Irene Kurka – Soprano, Marko Kassl – Accordion
Martin WistinghausenDrei Lasker-Schüler-Lieder for soprano and accordion (2024) WP
Julia Deppert Lang Halt ein, maßloser Frühling Duo (2025) WP
Xuan Yao Radienergia for accordion
Jan Cyž kkk – transreal (kandinsky-kurka-kassl) Duo (2025) WP
Mayako Kubo Little Confessions for soprano and accordion (2024) WP
Stefan Lienenkämper Der Tag for voice, accordion and playback (2025)
ART Ensemble NRW Chamber orchestra
Pia Marei Hauser – flute, Saskia Buxbaum – oboe, Pawel Kuterbach – clarinet, Marko Kassl – accordion, Martin Schminke – violin, Yuliia Chemerys – violin, Till Mengler – viola, Jana Simic – violoncello, Fumitaka Yoshikawa – double bass, Miro Dobrowolny – conductor
Helmut Zapf Four Broken Frames for Four Broken wood Frames (2023)
Katia Guedes Die Füße unter dem Boden for video, tape and quartet WP
Miro Dobrowolny Suite sur l‘ accord mystique Septet (2013/25) WP
Henry Mex Sonnenwind for Chamber orchestra (2025) WP
Erik JansonComplex dancing colous (2025) WP
Johannes Hildebrandt Viele Käfer (2025) WP
Museum Barberini
Sunday, May 18
DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam
15:30
16:00
Final Day of the 25th Intersonanzen
Viola Yip – Liminal Lines Performance
Symposium
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Liedtke, Luc Döbereiner, Nico Sauer, Viola Yip, Zoran Terzic, Matthias Hornschuh and composers of the BVNM
19:00
Black Pencil (NL)
Jorge Isaac – Recorders, Matthijs Koebe – Panpipes, Enric Monfort – Percussion, Esra Pehlivanli – Viola, Marko Kassl – Sccordion
Ruud Roelofsen Wraith II (2021)
Samuel Tramin Cavemusic II (1 Samuel 22) for recorder(s), pan flute(s), viola, accordion, vibraphone/percussion and electronic WP
Peter Köszhegy Pearl for recorders and percussion WP
Sabine Vogel wind driven for contrabass panflute and tape (2025) WP
Hugo Morales Murguía Picture (2024)
Steffen Schellhase musik für Ensemble 2025 WP
Akim Moiseenkov Beauty Lies Around the Corner (2024)
WP = World Premiere
ALL INFORMATION IS PROVIDED WITHOUT GUARANTEE – SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Artistic and Organizational Direction: Henry Mex
Intersonanzen Team: Xuan Yao, Susanne Stelzenbach, Gabriel Iranyi, Stefan Lienenkämper, Irina Emeliantseva,
Documentation: Dietrich Petzold, Leon Fiedler und Sebastian Rausch
Patron: Dr. Manja Schüle, Minister for Science, Research, and Culture of the State of Brandenburg
Organizer: Brandenburgischer Verein Neue Musik e.V. in cooperation with the venues DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam, Museum Barberini Potsdam, Museum FLUXUS+, Palais Lichtenau, and the events Guten Morgen Eberswalde and Cottbuser Musikherbst.
Further Cooperation Partners: Landesmusikrat Brandenburg, Städtische Musikschule Potsdam, NEOS Music Foundation
With the kind support of the MWFK Land Brandenburg, the City of Potsdam, the City of Cottbus, and the City of Eberswalde.
Reservations: For museum FLUXUS+ and Palais Lichtenau, please contact: tickets@intersonanzen.de
For DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam visit: www.dasminsk.de
For Museum Barberini visit: www.museum-barberini.de
WE THANK THE INSTITUTIONS AND COOPERATION PARTNERS
