DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program and SONCITIES are proud to present Concrete Dreams of Sound: Experiments in Sonic Materiality. This two-week programme brings together sonic artists, theorists, and architects in exploring ideas of sound and materiality in the context of talks, conversations, workshops, listening sessions, performances, and installations. You can read more about this programme here.

Concrete Dreams of Sound has several components. It includes a four-day gathering of invited artists and theorists; a pedagogical programme for students in architecture, urban design, and sound studies; and a public programme that features listening sessions, a symposium, and an Open Lab. The Open Lab space is conceived not as an exhibition in the classical sense, but rather as a testing-grounds: a space that will evolve over the course of the programme, and a way to invite the public into the processes, research, and thinking behind various projects and experiments.

It will feature contributions by Alchemyverse (Bicheng Liang + Yixuan Shao), Gerard Gormley, Katarzyna Krakowiak, Signe Lidén, Nicole L’Huillier, Yara Mekawei, Brett Mommersteeg, Mendi+Keith Obadike, Samuel Perea-Díaz, Marina Peterson, Charles Richards, Jonathan Tyrrell, Jan St. Werner, Jona Wolf

Curated by Dahlia Borsche and Gascia Ouzounian

Open Lab: daily 12 to 7 pm, 22 April - 5 May (except April 25 during the symposium)

Location: daadgalerie, Oranienstrasse 161, 10969

Photo: Transitory Sonic Bodies by Samuel Perea-Díaz and Jona Wolf