TUNE, a series of short sound residencies, is hosted at Haus der Kunst and explores the intersections of sound, music, and visual art. The invited artists move across genres, eras, and influences and generate sonic responses and exchanges with the wider programming at Haus der Kunst. The spirit of play and evolving structures are two main threads running through this year’s TUNE. Many of the sonic artists in our new programme create compositions and experiences from multiple sound sources and logic systems. In the interplay of these loosely connected assemblages, new meanings emerge.
TUNE takes place across venues of our building. Some highlights include drummer-composer Valentina Magaletti’s collaboration with Afro-Portuguese artist Nídia, with their work exploring a diverse yet universal musical language through syncopated drum patterns, pulsating marimba lines, and melodic interludes. The collective life is beautiful stage performances that evolve from loose, improvised structures into unfolding narratives. The harnessing of the eight musicians’ individual expression and creative play is greater than the sum, this being an essential motive guiding their process. The legendary musician Limpe Fuchs, a seminal influence on the kosmische Musik of the 1960s and 1970s and the psychedelic underground, creates her own instruments as part of her durational and unpredictable performances. Moving between electroacoustic music and the Arabic language in its sung form is a primary concern of the composer and musicologist Youmna Saba. Her work spans solo experimentation, collaborative compositions, and music for film, often centred around voice and her instrument of choice, the oud.
Furthermore, coinciding with the “For Children” exhibition, TUNE presents the work of artists who have worked with children, regrounding music in the experience of play, including Laraaji, Tarek Atoui, Beni Brachtel, and Nicolas Becker.
In addition to the monthly sound residencies, TUNE commissions one artist per year to develop a new sound work that is presented over several months in the Terrassensaal. As a transitional space, the Terrassensaal allows the composition to be encountered in passing – inviting reflection on sound and music as complex, meaning-laden art forms. From January onwards, Sour Loop by Hanne Lippard and Laurel Halo will be on listen there – a layered sonic landscape that explores how sound and music function in public space: whether they create an atmosphere of calm or discomfort, invite people to linger or encourage them to move on.
Artists include Valentina Magaletti, Nídia, Moin, life is beautiful, Limpe Fuchs, Hanne Lippard, Laurel Halo, Youmna Saba, Benjamin Brachtel, Laraaji, Nicolas Becker, Tarek Atoui, and Quentin Sirjacq.
Curated by Sarah Miles with Marlene Mützel
Live Programm 2025
- 28.2. & 1.3.25 | Valentina Magaletti & Nídia, Moin
- 4. & 5.4.25 | life is beautiful
- 9. & 10.5.25 | Limpe Fuchs
- 6. & 7.6.25 | Youmna Saba
Upcoming events:
9.5.25
TUNE. Limpe Fuchs. Listening to the Sound disappearing. Concert
Friday 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
10.5.25
TUNE. Limpe Fuchs & Hanna Bächer. Artist Talk
Saturday 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
10.5.25
TUNE. Limpe Fuchs, Arve Henriksen, Pit Holzapfel. Concert
Saturday 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
6.6.25
TUNE. Youmna Saba. "Wishah". Concert
Friday 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM