MusicMakers Hacklab 2016 - Future Rituals

2016's Hacklab engaged in producing cross-cultural hybrids that imagined future topographies of sound and music performance. Participants re-educated their electronic selves in the potentials of near and distant traditions, systems of musical representation and structure, and performance techniques. The music technology of the time represented a new culture, sometimes entirely alien to that which came before. It made distances across geography and history vast, offering something radically new or collapsed entirely, thanks to access to knowledge and tools.

This Hacklab edition was co-hosted by Ewa Justka and Peter Kirn, and housed at Native Instruments Office in Berlin. The finale performance took place at HAU2. Three public Hacklab Input talks rounded out the lab's activities: »Proto-electronic Music, Post-digital Sound« by Maciej Sledziecki and Marion Wörle, »New instrument building and collaboration« by Wukir Suryadi, and »100% No Modern Talking: The Relation of Technology & Cultural Practice« by Gösta Wellmer.

• Ewa Justka
• Peter Kirn

The MusicMakers Hacklab was pesented in collaboration with CDM, Native Instruments and the SHAPE Platform.