Events

Four decades of contemporary music. And not the least bit nostalgic. Our 40th Anniversary Concert is neither a retrospective nor a tribute. It traces a line of artistic commitments: curiosity, risk, collective listening, and the willingness to let the ensemble’s own history become unsettled by the present. Origin and future, memory and opening, the familiar […]

Failure can be an attitude. Failure can be a strategy. Failure, perhaps, can be an art form. J. Jack Halberstam’s idea of failure as a queer, productive, and transformative strategy inspires this project. Imperfection, instability, and non-linearity appear here not as deficits, but as artistic procedures that undermine expectations of mastery, progress, and coherence. In […]

What was really sounding in the Zurich Dada soirées?The familiar story tells: a group of radical artists gathers in neutral Switzerland in the middle of the First World War, provokes the bourgeoisie, and shakes the art world. It’s a good story. It’s just not entirely true. The music of the Zurich soirées was, unlike the […]

What was really sounding in the Zurich Dada soirées?The familiar story tells: a group of radical artists gathers in neutral Switzerland in the middle of the First World War, provokes the bourgeoisie, and shakes the art world. It’s a good story. It’s just not entirely true. The music of the Zurich soirées was, unlike the […]

What was really sounding in the Zurich Dada soirées?The familiar story tells: a group of radical artists gathers in neutral Switzerland in the middle of the First World War, provokes the bourgeoisie, and shakes the art world. It’s a good story. It’s just not entirely true. The music of the Zurich soirées was, unlike the […]

Aftertext takes the idea of overwriting into the field of authorship itself. New works by Feliz Anne Reyes Macahis, Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, Cecilia Pereyra and Ana Gamboa. Commissioned by Distat Festival. The programme begins from pre-existing musical works, texts, fragments, and sound worlds. But these sources are not quoted from a distance. They are treated as […]

Aftertext takes the idea of overwriting into the field of authorship itself. At the centre of the programme is a new work by Feliz Anne Reyes Macahis, a commission by the Distat Festival. The programme begins from pre-existing musical works, texts, fragments, and sound worlds. But these sources are not quoted from a distance. They […]

Byung-Chul Han describes information as something that does not form a closed narrative. . It does not provide a clear direction, but appears additive, fragmentary, and provisional.. In this sense, this programme does not focus on a narrative arc, but on a constellation of signs, gestures, and residues. Diana Sohs Incantare: Take 2 gives the […]

Byung-Chul Han describes information as something that does not form a closed narrative. . It does not provide a clear direction, but appears additive, fragmentary, and provisional.. In this sense, this programme does not focus on a narrative arc, but on a constellation of signs, gestures, and residues. Diana Sohs Incantare: Take 2 gives the […]

Borrowing this title from Radiohead is already the concert’s first act of overwriting.. Nothing tonight is simply invented; everything begins from something found: a pop title, a worn-out virtuoso gesture, or the noise a room produces when an instrument listens to itself. These composers do not treat expression as something pure or untouched. They take […]