Hosted by the Interspecifics Collective and Alberto de Campo, »A Score for Uncertainty« is a 7-day long collaborative laboratory focused on the creation of a sound composition from an unknown future, using existing but novel instruments and sound catalogues.

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»The Sound of Belgium«
music documentary by Josef Devillé ^BE
21:15 // Thalia Cinema // 6€
Screening followed by RAVE-Mixtapes session

The documentary is devoted to searching for the spirit of a nation and for the people who danced to that spirit.

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Hosted by the Interspecifics Collective and Alberto de Campo, »A Score for Uncertainty« is a 7-day long collaborative laboratory focused on the creation of a sound composition from an unknown future, using existing but novel instruments and sound catalogues.

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Altes Wettbüro // 11:30 - 12:30

Artists, cultural organizers, and the general public are invited to participate in a question and discussion period and to meet ICAS network members and supporting artists present. The press conference gives an overview of the ICAS network and the ICAS festival programme. Projects within the network will also be presented, including ECAS by project head Oliver Baurhenn (CTM Festival, Berlin), and the SHAPE Platform by Lucia Udvardyova and Michal Brenner (Meet Factory, Prague).

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»Nine Futures: Sounds Fragmenting«
Music Documentary by Nathan Budzinski & Theo Cook
21:15 // Thalia Cinema // 6€
Screening followed by Q&A & RAVE-Mixtapes session

Its directors were guests at all nine of the ECAS partner festivals and collected audiovisual impressions from the festivals’ home cities, and their various protagonists and artists’ projects.

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FELD – Audiovisual Creativity in Space
10:00 – 20:00 // Festspielhaus Hellerau

SHAPE Workshop with Ulf Langheinrich ^DE
for Musicians by Established Professionals

In this workshop, veteran artist Ulf Langheinrich will introduce basic strategies of his search to dissolve boundaries within and create uncertainty in audiovisual creation.

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20:00 – 3:00 // Altes Wettbüro
Presentations by Nathan Budzinski ^CA (ECAS Documentary filmmaker), Martin Craciun ^UY (SOCO Festival), Oliver Baurhenn ^DE (CTM Festival), Neja Tomsic ^SI (MoTa), Gosia Plysa ^PL (Unsound), Leslie Garcia ^MX (Interspecifics Collective), Chico Dub ^BR (Novas Frequências), Susanna Niedermayr ^AT (musikprotokoll)

22:00 Cuthead ^DE LIVE
23:00 Mr. Incognito ^DE LIVE
24:00 Le Petit Garçon DJ set ^NO

Eight figures from the international music industry introduce themselves, each within eight minutes. In these short presentations, the professionals tell the story of how they came to work in music — why they chose to start a label, organize concerts, or convert a hobby into a career — and of the highs and lows they encountered along the way. Each of the podium participants represents a different sector of the music industry. Among them are artists, journalists, label owners, radio hosts, bookers, and festival organisers. Collectively they represent the music industry value chain that the evening adopts as its primary subject. At the afterparty in the Alten Wettbüro, the public will have the opportunity to network one-on-one with the participants.

Outdoor Sound Installation
by Teun Verkerk & Joris Hoogeboom ^NL
All day // Kunsthofpassage / FSH

BUQS are small electronic life forms that live all over the city and invite interaction and relocation. Each one has unique tools and senses and has to find its own niche in the constructed environment around it. The distributed ecology of BUQS converts the public space into a soundscape that invites active exploration, experimentation and reconfiguration. The BUQS provide a transparent, straightforward alternative to the private, often invisible technologies that infiltrate our daily modern life.

»Nine Futures: Sounds Fragmenting«
Music Documentary by Nathan Budzinski & Theo Cook
21:15 // Thalia Cinema // 6€

The directors were guests at all nine of the ECAS partner festivals and collected audiovisual impressions from the festivals’ home cities, and their various protagonists and artists’ projects.

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Hosted by the Interspecifics Collective and Alberto de Campo, »A Score for Uncertainty« is a 7-day long collaborative laboratory focused on the creation of a sound composition from an unknown future, using existing but novel instruments and sound catalogues.

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Outdoor Sound Installation
by Teun Verkerk & Joris Hoogeboom ^NL
All day // Kunsthofpassage / FSH
& Festspielhaus Hellerau

BUQS are small electronic life forms that live all over the city and invite interaction and relocation. Each one has unique tools and senses and has to find its own niche in the constructed environment around it. The distributed ecology of BUQS converts the public space into a soundscape that invites active exploration, experimentation and reconfiguration. The BUQS provide a transparent, straightforward alternative to the private, often invisible technologies that infiltrate our daily modern life.

Tools for the Future
20:00 - 23:30 // Festspielhaus Hellerau

20:30 Lief Hall ^CA/DE
21:30 Felicie d’Estienne d’Orves
           & Étienne Jaumet – “Satori” ^FR
22:30 Lorenzo Senni ^IT

room 2
21:30 Pasajera Oscura ^AT
22:30 Bocca al Lupo ^INT

Tickets: 14.40 € Buy at Reservix

»High on Hope«
music documentary by Piers Sanderson ^UK
21:15 // Thalia Cinema // 6€
followed by a Q&A with festival organiser Thomas Smith ^UK

»High on Hope« uses original footage from warehouse parties and and alternates it with interviews, news archives, and animation to portray what took place when Chicago’s acid house music scene arrived in Northern England at the time of the recession under Margaret Thatcher in 1980.

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Kinetic Sound Sculpture & Immersive Environment
by Martin Bricelj Baraga & Olaf Bender ^SI/DE
Festspielhaus Hellerau : Empore Süd
Performances 19:00 19:30 23:00 23:30

A kinetic sonic sculpture consisting of 99 balloons. This performance by artists Martin Bricelj Baraga & Olaf Bender is simultaneously immersive and intimate. The inflated balloons surround the visitor and make for an intensive physical, acoustic, and visual experience.

Read more on 99 on the artist page

Tickets: 5€/3€ Preorder
(recommended, very limited space)

TANZ IN DEN MAI
00:00 - 05:00 // LAB 15
00:00 12z ^HU
01:00 Sonic Robots – Mad Science, Bass & Robots! ^DE
02:00 N1L (Mãrtiņš Roķis) ^LV
03:00 Low Jack ^FR
04:00 RSS B0YS ^PL

Room 2 - Basement
00:00 QRG ^BR
01:00 Cooptrol ^UY
01:30 Borusiade ^RO
02:30 Jesse Osborne-Lanthier ^CA/DE
03:30 Shaddah Tuum ^INT

Tickets: 8 € : Buy at Eventbrite

Hosted by the Interspecifics Collective and Alberto de Campo, »A Score for Uncertainty« is a 7-day long collaborative laboratory focused on the creation of a sound composition from an unknown future, using existing but novel instruments and sound catalogues.

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Outdoor Sound Installation
by Teun Verkerk & Joris Hoogeboom ^NL
All day // Kunsthofpassage / FSH & Lab 15

BUQS are small electronic life forms that live all over the city and invite interaction and relocation. Each one has unique tools and senses and has to find its own niche in the constructed environment around it. The distributed ecology of BUQS converts the public space into a soundscape that invites active exploration, experimentation and reconfiguration. The BUQS provide a transparent, straightforward alternative to the private, often invisible technologies that infiltrate our daily modern life.

14:00 - 18:00 // LAB 15
by Alexander Dorn
The artist combines painting, sculpture, performance, and photography. The point of departure is an original found photograph that is then picturally and sculpturally simulated and finally recorded photographically. In addition, it will feature a performative element in which the public and the artist are integrated into the image. As with a stage set, the space, the interior, and the inhabitants are built and painted. The performance welcomes all audience members and promises to extend its own identity as a “happening” by virtue of the closing photographic documentation.

Kinetic Sound Sculpture & Immersive Environment
by Martin Bricelj Baraga & Olaf Bender ^SI/DE
Festspielhaus Hellerau : Empore Süd
Performances 18:00 18:30 19:00 19:30

A kinetic sonic sculpture consisting of 99 balloons. This performance by artists Martin Bricelj Baraga & Olaf Bender is simultaneously immersive and intimate. The inflated balloons surround the visitor and make for an intensive physical, acoustic, and visual experience.

More on 99 on the artist page

Tickets: 5€/3€ Preorder
(recommended, very limited space)

ICAS Picnic
12:00 - 15:00

Mini-DJs Mini-Workshop
14:00 - 15:00
Workshop for kids with Charlotte Bendiks ^NO

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Phantasialand Installation
14:00 - 18:00
by and with Alexander Dorn

Networking the Art
20:00 - 01:00 // Festspielhaus Hellerau - 10/12 €

20:00 Stanislav Abrahám –
            – “Shapescapes and Spectral Scenery” ^CZ
21:00 Matthijs Munnik & Joris Strijbos – “U-AV” ^NL
21:30 Assimilation Process ^DE
22:15 Bruma ^FR
23:00 Gábor Lázár ^HU
24:00 Grey Branches (Yves de Mey) ^BE


Tickets: 14.40 € Buy at Reservix

Hosted by the Interspecifics Collective and Alberto de Campo, »A Score for Uncertainty« is a 7-day long collaborative laboratory focused on the creation of a sound composition from an unknown future, using existing but novel instruments and sound catalogues.

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“Networking Tomorrow’s Art for an Unknown Future”
11:00 – 16:00 // Festspielhaus Hellerau

DAVE & ICAS pres. : Donnerst.org
18:00 // Altes Wettbüro

German Language panel with: Bianca Ludewig (music journalist), Christina Nemec (musician), Antje Meichsner (free radio editor), Oliver Hartmann (musician & label head), Sebastian Drichelt (musician)

Followed by Shannon Soundquist ^DE Sound Art Live Set; conceptual DJing with Jukebox Utopia & Shannon Soundquist ; Ulrich Troyer ^DE(Songs For William Live Dub Set)

What are the most important differences between today’s reality and the imaginary depiction of it, in the past, as “future”? If techno was the music of the future, where are we now? How have the production of, ways of listening to, and dreams about music changed? Nowadays, potatoes grow in downtown Detroit; meanwhile, we’re only four years away from the fictional future in which Blade Runner had to search for replicants in dystopian Los Angeles.

donnerstag.org, a discussion between SHAPE and regional artists, is an event designed by DAVE organisers together with ICAS Festival administrators.

Details at the venue website (German)

Performance and Lecture
20:00 – 21:00 // Festspielhaus Hellerau, Grosser Saal
Heimo Lattner & Judith Laub ^AT/DE

Advanced Sounds
21:00 - 1:00 // Festspielhaus Hellerau

21:00 Mørk ^NO
22:00 Lumisokea ^BE/IT
23:00 Felicie d’Estienne d’Orves
           & Étienne Jaumet – “Satori” ^FR
24:00 Evian Christ live ^UK

HUMATIC – “MNM Stage Version ^DE/JP

Tickets: 14.40 € Buy at Reservix

Kinetic Sound Sculpture & Immersive Environment
by Martin Bricelj Baraga & Olaf Bender ^SI/DE
Festspielhaus Hellerau : Empore Süd
Performances 18:00 18:30 19:00 19:30

A kinetic sonic sculpture consisting of 99 balloons. This performance by artists Martin Bricelj Baraga and Olaf Bender is simultaneously immersive and intimate. The inflated balloons surround the visitor and make for an intensive physical, acoustic, and visual experience.

More on 99 (incl. trailer) on the artist page

Tickets: 5€/3€ Preorder
(recommended, very limited space)

Outdoor Sound Installation
by Teun Verkerk & Joris Hoogeboom ^NL
All day // Kunsthofpassage / FSH
& Festspielhaus Hellerau

BUQS are small electronic life forms that live all over the city and invite interaction and relocation. Each one has unique tools and senses and has to find its own niche in the constructed environment around it. The distributed ecology of BUQS converts the public space into a soundscape that invites active exploration, experimentation and reconfiguration. The BUQS provide a transparent, straightforward alternative to the private, often invisible technologies that infiltrate our daily modern life.

in Cooperation with TOLERADE
23:00 - 7:00 // LAB 15
8€ /TOLERADE Visitors: 4€

23:00 Charlotte Bendiks DJ ^NO Part 1
00:30 Grey Branches (Yves de Mey) ^BE
01:15 Random Logic live & visuals^SI
02:15 DJ Nigga Fox ^PT
03:45 Lotic ^US/DE
04:45 Charlotte Bendiks DJ ^NO Part 2

Tickets: 8 € : Buy at Eventbrite

Opened by DJ and producer Charlotte Bendiks, a native of Tromsø, Norway. Bendiks’s sets exhibit primarily classic house but also incorporate disco, African groove, and Latin. Next, Lisbon’s dance music trailblazer DJ Nigga Fox will do his part to pulverize a surely already bumping dance floor. Rogério Brandão’s one-of-a-kind collection of bangers have the absorption of multifarious influences such as kuduro, afro-house, Angolan deep, tarraxinha, batida to thank, but most of all couldn’t exist without Brandão’s initial, highly creative impulse to meld all of these. Final set at LAB 15 will be by Lōtic. He is J’Kerian Morgan of Houston, Texas. His regular sets at Berlin’s hyped Janus club night gained attention for their critical, delirious mash-ups of pop culture references.

15:00 - 16:30 // Hellerau Garden City
with Environmental Auditors ^INT
Meeting Point: Festspielhaus Hellerau

In 2013 the Environmental Auditors gave rise to an active exchange between the Austrian and Norwegian improvisation scenes. This collaboration is still nourished via a cooperation between the ORF Musikprotokoll im Steirischen Herbst and Norway’s Insomnia Festival. Eight environmental auditors from Austria and Norway recommend that the visitors listen especially carefully when the orchestral instruments overlap and interact with environmental sounds, thereby significantly enhancing the auditive experience.

18:00 – 20:00 // Festspielhaus Hellerau// 5€ / 3€
18:00 Energy Bending Lab live Interspecifics Collective
18:30 MusicMakers Hacklab Finale

Hacklab participants present the results of their week of collaboration and experimentation in short performances and presentations. Hosted by the Interspecifics Collective, which will also perform the Energy Bending Lab, a modular instrument that amplifies the microvoltage produced by microorganisms and transduces their oscillatory features into raw electronic signals that produce an unexpected array of sound patterns.

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