MusicMakers Hacklab 2022: Closeness / Nähe

After a fully virtual year in 2021, this Hacklab took a first step back into in-person collaboration with an open call for participants based in Berlin. We invited participants to consider intimacy and physical proximity in their Hacklab creations, but also how they might reshape their artistic identities and local communities/scenes, building unfamiliar selves while remaining in a familiar city/place. What does it mean to get closer again? In 2022, we faced a landscape in which we tried to recover intimacy and shared experience after social distancing, but in which geographical distances took on greater meaning. In the spirit of adaptation – personal, artistic, and collaborative – 2022’s theme for MusicMakers Hacklab once more responded to a crisis around us.

This Hacklab edition was co-hosted by Ariel William Orah and Peter Kirn, and housed at AL Berlin in Berlin-Kreuzberg. The finale performance took place at Kunstquartier Bethanien Studio 1. Two public Hacklab Input talks rounded out the lab's activities: »Collaboration, Invention, and Improvisational Practice« by Korhan Erel, and »Shared Spaces for Music Creation« talk by Kimia Bani & Ben Osborn (Open Music Lab).

• Hacklab Input 1 by Korhan Erel

• Hacklab Input 1 by Korhan Erel

• Hacklab Input 2 by Kimia Bani and Ben Osborn (Open Music Lab)

• Hacklab Input 2 by Kimia Bani and Ben Osborn (Open Music Lab)

• Ariel William Orah
• Peter Kirn