Sound festival at Freudenberg Castle
From 29 to 31 August, the field of experience for the development of the senses and thinking at Freudenberg Castle will become a center for sound art and research. Under the motto "From hearing to listening", a program of lectures, impulses, workshops and concerts invites visitors to immerse themselves in the world of sound.
For three days, sound takes center stage at the Freudenberg Field of Experience. In addition to the festival program, there will be impulses, guided tours, art performances and listening and sound experiences for all day visitors on all three days.
The program:
- August 29, 10 a.m.
Prof. Thilo Hinterberger talks about "Sound and consciousness: a sensual-scientific look at the transformative power of sound". - August 30, 10 a.m.
Prof. Eckart Altenmüller on "Why music: an evolutionary-psychological and neurophysiological perspective". - August 31, 11 a.m.
The humanities scholar Martyn Schmidt talks about silence in an illustrated multimedia lecture. - August 29, 2 p.m.
The workshop with music psychotherapist and voice therapist Sabine Rittner is about "Klangkörper - Körperklang" - exploring and experimenting with breath, voice, trance, movement and space. - August 29, 2 p.m.
The gong as a gateway to inner spaces" in this workshop, led by neurologist, psychiatrist and music therapist Dr. Peter Heß and alternative practitioner Heike Heß, the focus is on self-awareness and an introduction to the theoretical background of Dr. Peter Heß's therapeutic work. - August 30, 2 p.m.
The workshop with the musician, instrument maker and sound researcher Helmut Kaiser is about the "fascination of instrument making" as a way of making tuned sound instruments yourself: Tuned, pentatonic sound modules will be produced. - August 31, 2 p.m.
The workshop with sculptor and musician Michael Scholl is about playing with sound stones, history, background and playing techniques. Michael Scholl will provide insights into the history and production of sound stones and an introduction to playing sound stones. - August 31, 2 p.m.
Wolfgang Saus, renowned musician and vocal sound researcher, introduces the art of overtone singing. - August 30, 1 p.m.
Music therapist and instrument maker Christof Linhuber will be annealing and hammering gongs by hand.
The program is rounded off on Friday by the Wiesbaden musician Dirk Marwedel and a performance on a lithophone, on Saturday with a concert with sound stones, voice and flute with the group "Mutterklang" and a musical finale in the encounter of piano and gongs with Laura Maria Bastian and Jörg Brandt.