ligeti center @ blurred edges: Ensemble 404 x Water Studies

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From 29.05.2026 to 28.06.2026, the festival for contemporary music Hamburg blurred edges combines analog and electronic sounds in field recordings, compositions, improvisations, performances, sound installations, lectures and exhibitions. For the third year in a row, ligeti zentrum is contributing to the program and presenting a double concert evening at the intersection of technology, improvisation and human fragility.

Ensemble 404, under the direction of composer and researcher Oscar Corpo, will present its debut album. The music is a journey through borderline states: from the cosmic meditation in Séirios to the dream-like hallucinations of an artificial intelligence in the Hypnagogia System Suite to Shamanic Protocol - a digital healing ritual of a "damaged" virtual entity. Between AI-supported interaction and instrumental precision, Ensemble 404 searches for the human essence in the digital noise. Here, the error becomes a tool of catharsis.

In the second part of the evening, sound artists Kieran McAuliffe and Quirin Nebas from ligeti zentrum transport listeners to different aggregate states of water, whisking them away to muffled underwater worlds, winding cave systems or clinking ice. These live soundscapes are realized with guitars, drums and the spatial audio system of the in-house Production Lab.

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Registration is necessary and can be done via Pretix.
Late admission is not possible.