The "big bang" in Bern this fall
From September 3 to 13, the Bern Music Festival invites you to an encounter between science and music: Martin Jaggi's "Planck", for example, draws on data on cosmic background radiation to fuse five ensembles from the independent music scene into a body of sound. And "Rosetta" pursues the search for the origins of the universe, multiverses and Higgs particles.
The program structure of this year's Bern Music Festival under the motto "Big Bang" plays with today's common cosmological images of the Big Bang and Cosmic Expansion: After the concentrated energy explodes in various programs on the first three days of the festival, the concerts and performances of the second week of the festival behave like the formation of individual galaxies and stars.
Artists in residence are percussionist Brian Archinal and the ensemble This I Ensemble That. Archinal, who comes from Denver, Colorado (USA), has established himself as a soloist and lecturer since graduating from the Basel University of Music. He has been teaching percussion at Bern University of the Arts since 2014. A training program for experimental forms of interpretation is being developed there under his direction.
Part of the "Big Bang" concert series is also the Mad Scientist Festival - an international festival for new show formats and art projects relating to science and research. Based on the giant particle accelerator at the Cern nuclear research center in Geneva, a local club will be converted into a "collider" for ten days, where big bang research will be made tangible in a playful way, with talks and installations, a special bar and a "Scientific Arcade".
More info: www.musikfestivalbern.ch
