Macken, Josephine

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Josephine Macken is a composer and improviser currently in-residence at the Akademie der Künste Berlin as a recipient of the Junge Akademie Fellowship. Her most recent work seeks out spatial/sculptural expressions of musical temporalities through an interdisciplinary approach to score-making. Musical qualities – poetry, rhythm, timbre, intensity etc. – are expressed through the arrangement of materials in space using tapestry fibres, knots, frictive surfaces, metal, reels and lines varying in length, thickness and tension. The resulting scores celebrate the vibrancy and musicality of inanimate objects. As an improviser, Josephine synthesises vocal and instrumental practices, using wind instruments to modulate the poetry of the voice and uncannily extend the boundaries of the vocal apparatus.

Festival Content

VOCATIONS – OPEN SPACE

Songs and vocal practices based on poetry

Kuppelhalle | 4/2 € Tickets

Vocations – open space 2024 will organise four evenings of radically open transdisciplinary experiments and collaborations at the interface between music, sound and poetry at silent green Kulturquartier’s event space Kuppelhalle (29.5. / 8.7. / 9.10. / 3.12.). As a meeting place for Berlin’s contemporary poetry and music scenes, Vocations offers an open space to up to twenty artists to perform at any one time, combining a wide variety of musical and vocal practices based on or rooted in poetry.

Abdulla-zadè, RaminaBrand, UlrikeDunajcsik, MátyásFeizabadi, AmenHansen, JannesHolland, TimKeskinkılıç, Ozan ZakariyaLin-Siedler, LixueMacken, JosephineDilek, MayatürkOleschinski, BrigitteOpitz, BirteSaul, FabianSeither, CharlotteTóth, Kinga