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A new platform for musical encounters:  musicians from different cultures have been working together for four years with this goal in mind. Now they are presenting the project and the associated website Pantopia Music (pantopia-music.org) at the Humboldt Forum. The audience is invited to join the talks and request tracks from the platform.

PUNE, DJ, producer and co-founder of the Danzee Collective, will present tracks from the different albums in short listening session.

Miguel Buenrostro, Berlin-based curator from Mexico, talks with Maurice Mengel, Head of the Media Department of the Ethnological Museum and Museum of Asian Art, about the Berlin Phonogram Archive kept at the Humboldt Forum and possible musical dialogues between transcultural present and ethnomusicological history.

Moderator: Jan Linders

 

4:30 pm listening session 1

5 pm talk 1

5:30 pm listening session 2

6 pm talk 2

6:30 listening session 3

 

Project statement

“The PANTOPIA MUSIC project researches and publishes contemporary transtraditional musical forms. It confronts an ethnically, colonially and centrally shaped perception of music with new forms of representation, mediation and production of contemporary, traditional and transtraditional musical works. The sum of possible musical utopias shall find a common place both online and onsite under the umbrella of PANTOPIA MUSIC.

PANTOPIA MUSIC produces digital albums for contemporary global music and digitally frames them with numerous media. Presented are archive materials as well as new compositions, which are created in connection with the project. This project is supported by close collaboration with renowned archives and cooperation with numerous radio stations dedicated to the cultivation of specific musical cultures in many places around the world. In addition, PANTOPIA MUSIC works closely with curators and musicians from different places, who not only have a feeling for the respective local music scenes, but can also initiate a dialogue with the public.

PANTOPIA MUSIC is a project of the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and the Ethnologisches Museum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin in cooperation with the Stiftung Humboldt Forum Berlin and the Marc Sinan Company. Funded by the “Kultur Digital” program of the German Federal Cultural Foundation.

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Biographies

PUNE is a DJ, producer and co-founder of the Danzee Collective. Based in Berlin since 2017, he plays and produces 90s garage house from the depths of Neukölln with his vinyl-only sets featuring drum breaks with strong liberation vocals. UOCRA (2020), released by Andras Records (WLS), solidifies his sound identity with a vibrant cosmic acid house vibe. GANBARE is his latest release where he shows his versatility by merging styles like acid bass with dub techno.

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Miguel Buenrostro (1984) is an artist from Tijuana, Mexico based in Berlin. His work reflects on the condition of the border as a site of knowledge production and interconnection. Working with listening practices, cinema and performative gestures in public space. His work has been presented in the Biennale Architettura di Venezia, Mexi-Cali Biennial, The Bauhaus Museum, Weimar, Musée National de la Rd Congo, Konsthall C, Stockholm Sweden and Museo Casa Lago, CDMX. His films have been held in different international film festivals, exhibitions and Public screenings. His lecture – performances have been presented in the Southern California Institute of Architecture, RICS Academy in Brussels, Belgium and Anna Amalia Bibliothek in Weimar, Germany. Miguel co-created “Nuevo Norte” a workshop in collaboration with local initiatives which investigate the politics of migration, borders and neoliberal agendas operating in the Americas. He is also part of the Planetary Listening, a group of international, interdisciplinary artists and researchers, which formed in Berlin in 2021, thinking together questions such as: What might it mean to listen beyond the human?

Miguel Buenrostro | Pantopia Music (pantopia-music.org)

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Maurice Mengel is Head of Department Media: Ethnomusicology, Berlin Phonogram Archive and Visual Anthropology of the Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

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In the Humboldt Forum's foyer there is a 17 meter high media tower, called "cosmograph". It gives visitors comprehensive information about their visit and can transform into an art and light installation.
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