Dear Visitors,

It is with great regret that we must announce the cancellation of the festival Projections due to significant reductions in Berlin's cultural budget for 2025. These budgetary cuts have also severely impacted the Konzerthaus, making this difficult decision unavoidable.

The festival Projections was conceived as an innovative and interdisciplinary event, designed to offer fresh perspectives on music and art. Its cancellation represents a profound loss—not only for us and our artists but also for you, our audience. Despite our strong commitment to the festival's vision, we were forced to make this decision in order to maintain the continuation of our regular concert programming.

We thank you for your understanding and support in these challenging times.
Your Konzerthaus Berlin

Our second Visual Music Night Werner-Otto-Saal offers you a poetic-synaesthetic experience in three sets. “Poème” is the debut album (2022) of the Berlin trio Reich / Baumgärtner / Pringle, who create a sound network of dense, playful communication in the rare combination of piano, violin & drums/percussion. Their unmistakable joint sound entices you to pause and listen, is multi-layered, delicate, irrepressible and concise. ChunLi Wang's visuals add another playful layer to this set, creating fluid transitions between technology and anthropology, opening up a poetic immersive world.

The novel song cycle “Sing Nature Alive” composed by McIntire is based on poetic lyrics about the love of nature and the urgency of the climate crisis. Rachel Fenlon interprets it with voice, piano and live electronics, complemented by Macmillan's nature videos. Voice and piano combine with field recordings of water, nature and breathing to create a continuous dream-like texture. Moving, haunting and thought-provoking, the “songs” emerge in full form or rise up as traces, only to sink back into the blur.

The second Visual Music Night ends with “Rückverzauberung”, an almost hour-long ambient trip through more than three centuries of music history: medieval lute and flute sounds interweave with baroque falsetto song fragments, bells and horns to create amorphous, abstract soundscapes. Small spinet and harp loops tumble intoxicatedly over feverishly beautiful violin surfaces. Atonality and euphony flow effortlessly into and out of each other. Voigt's principles of loops and deconstruction redefine old sound worlds. Ali M. Demirel enriches the set with his live visuals, in which the wonders of nature with their sometimes microscopic patterns are revived into abstract images.