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In this episode, hosts Sara Lucy and Peter Tracy, both master’s students in music sound performance, engage with three South Korean composers—Eunseon Yu, Bum Ki Kim, and Seil Oh—who are based in Busan and featured guests at The Crippled Symmetries Festival. The conversation sets the stage by introducing the guests’ backgrounds, their connection to Busan, and the festival’s focus on contemporary music and international artistic exchange.
Notable highlights include the composers’ candid reflections on returning to Korea after years abroad and rediscovering their cultural roots, the discussion of Busan’s unique energy and its role as a creative hub outside Seoul,...

This episode, hosted by Julia Gooss and Bronislava Bronka Pálešová, master students at Free University Berlin, centers on the Crippled Symmetries Festival in Berlin and features an in-depth conversation with the Cube -Band, a Taiwanese trio known for blending traditional and contemporary music through unique instrumentation and innovative performance approaches.
Notable highlights include the CUBE-Band's creative explanation of their group name and philosophy, vivid descriptions of adapting traditional instruments for experimental sounds, candid discussions about the technical and physical demands of contemporary performance, insights into their collaborative process with composers during pandemic restrictions, and reflections on the evolving landscape of...

20:30 Uhr – St. Elisabeth-Kirche
Set 4 – Open Symmetry

Das französische Ensemble 0 stellt mit Open Symmetry erstmals Musik von Tristan Perich in Berlin vor. Der New Yorker Künstler, international bekannt für seine Musik und Klangobjekte auf Basis kleinster musikalischer Informationen, verbindet die ästhetische Klarheit von Mathematik, Physik und Code mit einem pulsierenden, lebendigen Raum. Wiederholung, Bruch und Klangfarben stehen hier in ständiger Bewegung und zeugen von Tristan Perichs einzigartiger Klangsprache.

Tristan Perich – Open Symmetry
für drei Vibraphone und 20 Lautsprecher mit 1-bit Elektronik

Ensemble 0
Stéphane Garin / Julien Garin / Alexandre Babel, Vibraphone

Ths podcast feartures the following themes:
Introduction to the Crippled Symmetries series
 like Concept, structure, and international scope of the project.
Morton Feldman as a point of reference
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Repetition, patterns, and variation as a compositional framework.
Recycling as an artistic perspective on repetition and renewal
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Ritual and space – the Chinese garden as a model for a parcours
Slowing down, guidance, and spatial experience as part of musical form.