Interaktion Festival 2
16 musicians in 8 random duos competing for the best interaction. The audience votes!
The Interaktion Festival 2 featured 16 innovative musicians from Berlin's vibrant sub-culture. Chosen through an open call, these performers crossed scene-bounderies and genre-paradigms by improvising beyond known formats. During the competition, a virtual roulette randomly conformed 8 duos for a 12 minutes performance. Having to resolve their interaction immidetly on stage - these top musicians responded with unique sound-combinations and surprising resolutions. The audience voted for the best two duos and it was activly engaged in the event. The Festival awarded two ironic "first" and "second" prizes with real money... and then... some collegues jumped to the chair away from the mouse!
This festival has recieved vast intrest by musicians and the general public in Berlin and across Europe (no other free improvised-music activity in Berlin had so much audience ever). The Festival triggered wide discussions over the bounderies of free improvisation, contest, money prizes, genres, "free thinkers" gehttos, and the roll of German institutions supporting this music. It has been a center of interesting debates and articles. Nevertheless, due to the lack of support from the INM and the HKF, the planned 2010 edition could not be realized. Our festival is now in stand-by mode.
