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listening cities

Listening cities is the name of KNM Berlin's new sound magazine, dedicated in 2023 to music from three very different metropolitan regions of the world: Kyiv, Lima and Taipei.

Listening to a city does not only mean perceiving its acoustic signatures. The city is first and foremost an organism of human activities and sociocultural agreements.
listening cities therefore asks current composers and artists from the above-mentioned metropolises about the geographical, social, political and historical context of their art. Kyiv, Lima and Taipei are currently in the media spotlight. Whether the Russian war in Ukraine, the violent unrest in Peru, which is primarily based on the social discrimination of the indigenous rural population, or the threatened invasion of mainland China in Taiwan – it is always also about the violation, rejection and erasure of cultural identities.

Upcoming events:

21.10.23 listening cities : lima
14.11.23 listening cities : in taipei
15.12.23 listening cities : in lima

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listening cities is a project by the Ensemble KNM Berlin in cooperation with the Kyiv Contemporary Music Days, Villa Elisabeth, FAHRBEREITSCHAFT and One More Festival Taipei.
Funded by Musikfonds e.V. by means of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.