ONLINE FESTIVAL FOR TIME ISSUES - Maerzmusik

Contemporary music as centre and point of departure for an exploration of the nature of time in life, art and theory.

A Festival for Time Issues – that is a place devoted to our most valuable resource: time. Time, understood as a dimension of experience equally accessible to each and every one. A phenomenon that resists reduction and definition. Time as a medium of music and the arts that transcends chronological and efficiency-oriented regimes.

But also: Time as an political category that determines the ways in which we live, work and produce – a concept und invention in service of ideological and economic interests; an instrument of power setting the beat and dictating the rhythm; a dimension of the imaginary that influences our vision of futurity and hence our freedom of action. Time as a notion of agency for contemporaries, individuals and societies.

We cordially invite you to share this time and this space – a garden of forking paths: concerts, performances, installations, film presentations and discourse formats revolving around our relation to time. Moments, we hope, that will stay with you; days and hours that pass by in a flash: times condensed, dilated, anachronous, accelerated, interrupted, stopped and wasted – shared and lived time.

To the full program HERE

For the first time, you can follow the festival programme in the digital space. In the MaerzMusik Festivalstream you will be live at premieres and film premieres from 19 to 28 March. After the festival stream has been broadcast, the individual programme items will be available for you to listen to and watch in the various programme categories.

You can access the entire programme with the festival pass. It is available free of charge or for a voluntary payment. You can find all the information on our ticket page.

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Image credits: 

“Environment” by PHØNIX16, Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos (OEIN) and noiserkroiser

Berliner Festspiele | Marlena Waldthausen