Musical Interpretation And Performance Spaces For Music

Event Series

Curt-Sachs-Saal des Musikinstrumenten-Museums – Curt-Sachs-Saal des Musikinstrumenten-Museums

This season, we are combining two of the SIM's current research focuses in a series: musical interpretation and performance spaces of music. The debates in both areas regularly converge, indeed in many cases they cannot do without each other. For as relevant as the function of spatiality is for central questions of interpretation and as essential as the conditions of space are for sounding music in general, insights into the concrete practice of music performances and the type of music performed are also decisive for questions of spatiality.

Short introductions to each topic, vivid demonstrations live or in another medium and discussions with the audience will complement each other in different ways.

In July, we bid farewell to Heinz von Loesch on his retirement, giving us every reason to celebrate our longstanding colleague and the spiritus rector of interpretation research at SIM.

Responsible and always present: Heinz von Loesch, Jo Wilhelm Siebert, Olga Sutkowska and Rebecca Wolf.

On four of the above dates, there will be an opportunity to take part in a tour of the SIM's acoustic rooms at 4.45 pm. Contribution towards expenses € 3.

DATES

Thursday, 3 April 2025, 6 pm
Dynamics - licence to disobey
Jo Wilhelm Siebert

Thursday, 15 May 2025, 6 p.m.
Background and foreground - near and far. On an important category of interpretation in works of the Viennese School
Martin Kapeller

Thursday, 5 June 2025, 6 pm
The oldest sound spaces of mankind. On the acoustic phenomena of Stone Age caves
With demonstrations on replicas of archaeological musical instruments
Anna Friederike Potengowski and Arnd Adje Both

16.45 Listen up! Tour through the SIM's acoustics rooms

Thursday, 3 July 2025, 6 p.m.
Interpretation research - quo vadis?
Christian Utz
To mark the conclusion of the book series History of musical interpretation in the 19th and 20th centuries and Heinz von Loesch's departure from the State Institute for Music Research

Thursday, 23 October 2025, 6 pm
Performance in space. Acoustic conditions of interpretation
Zora Schärer

16.45 Listen! Tour through the acoustic rooms of the SIM

Thursday, 13 November 2025, 6 pm
How live is live? Music for and in hybrid spaces
Miriam Akkermann

16.45 Listen up! Tour through the acoustic rooms of the SIM

Thursday, 4 December 2025, 6 pm
Not to be overheard! The aulos as an instrument for indoors and outdoors in ancient Athens
With demonstrations on the replica of the Louvre Aulos
Agnes Schwarzmaier and Olga Sutkowska

16.45 Listen up! Tour through the acoustic rooms of the SIM

Meeting point: Curt-Sachs-Saal

Next date:

• Date Thursday, 13/November/2025 18:00 bis 19:30 (1 more date)
• Venue Musikinstrumentenmuseum - Ben-Gurion-Straße
• Address Ben-Gurion-Straße, 10785 Berlin-Tiergarten