PAPIRIPAR FESTIVAL
24. – 27.04.2025 Hamburg
Curated by Felix Kubin, Nika Son and Florian Bräunlich, PAPIRIPAR drills its tentacles into the primordial ooze of neurotic effectiveness and creates cross- modulations between the disciplines of music, art, film, radio play and performance.
PAPIRIPAR, the palindromic festival for pop, art and rotation, celebrates its fifth anniversary this year. At established Hamburg venues such as Westwerk, Fleetstreet, Hafenklang (above and below) with detours to more exotic locations such as the Kleine Laeiszhalle and the Mineralogical Museum, art and music are fused with gentle force. Under the motto ‘More art in music, more music in art’, familiar disciplines will be amalgamated into new, experimental forms.
But not only our festival is celebrating an anniversary. Daphne Oram, the grande dame of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, pioneer of British electronic music and inventor of the Oramics machine, would also have turned 100 this year. This is an occasion for a little tribute, which runs through our programme in special performances and small footnotes:
Instrument maker and artist Pit Przygodda, together with Butoh dancer Yôko Higashi and composer Lionel Marchetti, is developing a performance in which the dancer’s movements are translated into sounding waveforms by his optical soundtrack synthesiser ‘Silhouette’. A world premiere!
The visual artist, filmmaker and musician Luke Fowler (self-oscillation, levitation, cross-fading) and the sound and installation artist Ryoko Akama (heat, magnetism, gravity) will create an installation at Westwerk. Fowler is also curating an experimental film programme for the 22nd Documentary Film Week Hamburg with reference to Daphne Oram’s work.
To delight our eardrums, Anthony Laguerre and the legendary ensemble Les Percussions de Strasbourg will perform their radical work ‘Myotis V’ in the Kleine Laeiszhalle. Directly before this, the internationally honoured Hamburg Maître de Geräusch Asmus Tietchens will be giving a concert with Cioran-like rigour and composure.
The radio and performance artist Agnès Pe will compose a sonic reinterpretation of Oram’s electro-acoustic composition ‘Four Aspects’ (1960).
Other stars in the ring: Suzan Peeters & Auguste Vickunaite, Giulio Erratum & The Worm Foundation, Loto Retina, Rian Trenor & Cara Tolmie, Ha Kyoon, Jana Rush, Ece Özel, Bound by Endogamy, Kostenfalle, Sinnthese, and others.
