Events

«La Minka» is a composer-performer project by Fernando Manassero with two guest musicians. Inspired by the Andean tradition of «minka», music is created as a collective process in which individual musical languages are brought together and further developed in alternating solo and trio formations.

As part of the «Echoes & Origins» workshop series, young people from a variety of backgrounds spent five weeks working on their own tracks alongside coaches from HitProducer. To round off the series, the concert hall will open its doors for a joint listening session, during which the participants will present their work and offer an insight into their creative processes.

As part of the lecture series «Ein Haus...», Marianne Baumgartner and Luca Camponovo discuss the sustainable transformation of a housing estate. Instead of a tabula rasa strategy, they show how the respectful renovation of existing buildings and targeted additions can create a new, community-oriented whole.

At the heart of «what about now» is the encounter between acoustic and electronic sound sources and the tension between analogue and digital media. This relationship is explored in new works created especially for the Nikel Ensemble.

Mikołaj Rytowski has invited Etienne Nillesen and Fabrizio di Salvo to this Sonic Boom evening. Three distinct artistic approaches explore the snare drum. Through sound research, sculptural approaches and spatial configurations, the instrument emerges as a resonating body and a field of experimentation beyond its familiar role.

As part of the series «Ein Haus...», Florian Nagler talks about the principle of «Einfach Bauen». In view of increasing technical and regulatory complexity, he uses three research houses in Bad Aibling to show how reduced, robust construction methods can be implemented in a concrete and sustainable manner.

As part of the «ATTACCA – Abschlussfestival sonic space basel» at the FHNW School of Music in Basel, students will present their final artistic projects. Stefan Preyer's master recital condenses the «Deep Space» series, developed over many years in collaboration with Theo Flach, into an immersive sound environment that lies somewhere between a concert and an installation.

As part of the «ATTACCA – Abschlussfestival sonic space basel» at the FHNW School of Music in Basel, students will present their final artistic projects. «Above and Below Air» unfolds like a suspended breath — balancing between what sustains us and what overwhelms us. In her master’s recital, Emily Adomah presents experimental pop shaped over several years, performed in an intimate electro-acoustic setting.

As part of the «ATTACCA – Abschlussfestival sonic space basel» at the FHNW School of Music in Basel, students will present their final artistic projects. An exercise in silence, identity suspension and speechlessness. In this piece, Pietro Elia Barcellona attempts to make the double bass and the sound space sound like something absent, unidentifiable, unspoken.

As part of the «ATTACCA – Abschlussfestival sonic space basel» at the FHNW School of Music in Basel, students will present their final artistic projects. A Collection of scenes unfolds across time and space—sometimes one after another, sometimes in parallel, sometimes overlapping in deliberate dissonance. The audience finds fragments, layers, coincidences, and memories, shaping a singular experience.