next_generation X

Concert

  • Audio technician operates mixing console in auditorium during next_generation X festival setup with large projection screen visible © Yunfei Zhang
  • Audience seated in dark auditorium viewing large projection screen displaying "next generation X" event branding with visible stage lighting grid overhead © Yunfei Zhang
  • Students seated at tables with electronic music equipment including modular synthesizers, laptops, and patch cables during next_generation X concert at ZKM
  • Seven performers sit behind a long table with electronic music equipment and laptops on stage at the next_generation X concert
  • Two people in darkness: one performs at a table under a spotlight, the other films them near a projection screen
  • Poster for next_generation X festival at ZKM Karlsruhe showing silhouettes of people viewing a projected digital display
Date(s)
Tue, 4 Jun 2024
Time
18:00
Venue
ZKM Kubus, Lorenzstraße 19, 76135 Karlsruhe, Deutschland

As Europe's largest meet-up of university studios for electronic music, »next_generation« offers up-and-coming composers a platform to present their new musical developments. This year, the festival initiated and conceived by Ludger Brümmer is celebrating its 10th edition.

Over four days, »next_generation« offers an exciting and dense program with the latest positions from the fields of »fixed media«, »spatial music« and »live electronics«. The festival thus guarantees a representative overview of the current creative work of the next generation of composers in the context of technology and art.

This year, students from 27 electronic university studios from Germany, Austria, France, the Netherlands, Italy and Switzerland are taking part. All participants will have the opportunity to present their work in concerts and installations at various locations in the ZKM or to exchange ideas about their own areas of interest in lectures and discussions. In addition, professors and lecturers will report on current developments in the individual studios and departments. (ZKM)

Contributing Artists

Éva Csonka, Hongyu Guo, Anna-Lina Helsen, Keita Hori, Hoin Ji, Ichiigai, Ziyang Ma, Jason Mendiola, Denise Onen, Julian Vollmert, Lihan Wang, Eric Wehner, Yunfei Zhang, Jihye Gebhart, Rui Zhang

Production & Documentation

Contribution HfG:

  • Artistic Direction / Concert Production: Lorenz Schwarz (HfG)
  • Sound Director: Benjamin Miller (ZKM | Hertzlab)
  • Camera & Editing: Andy Koch, Lisa Michel (ZKM | Video Studio)
  • Camera: Max Clausen, Christina Zartmann (ZKM | Video Studio)
  • Editing (Installations): Dan Samuel Pariyarathu (ZKM | Video Studio)
  • Stage Manager: Hans Gass (ZKM)
  • Stagehands: Manuel Urrutia

Collaborations

  • ZKM | Hertzlab (venue partner)

Acknowledgments

  • Ludger Brümmer (artistic director, ZKM | Hertzlab)
  • Dominik Kautz (project manager, ZKM | Hertzlab)

External Links

zkm.de/en/event/2024/06/nextgeneration-x