FUNKT #10

FUNKT was a festival of electronic music and sound art from Cologne, which took place on the 16th, 17th and 18th of April 2021.

This is a three hour extract from the festival, featuring sound art, computer music, homemade instruments, DIY electronics, radio play, noise, data sonification, field recordings, radio art, sound studies, historical anchor points, niches, insider tips, and different generations of Cologne's electronic and sound art landscape.

Full details and line-up: https://www.gerngesehen.de/funkt

The FUNKT programme was developed under the project management of Georg Dietzler by Anke Eckardt, Claudia Robles-Angel, Dietmar Bonnen, Dirk Specht and Felix Knoblauch, in cooperation with Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann.

Thanks to sponsors Musikfonds e. V. with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the special programme Neustart Kultur, Kunststiftung NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia Endowment for the Arts), the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne.

Tracklist

— bridging visual art and music / Frauke Berg, Julia Bünnagel, Anke Eckardt; Will Saunders
— ‘Tara-ra' (many stars, together) / Bidisha Das
— Conceptronica’ - The Sounds and Ideas of Conceputual, Critical and Political Electronic Music of Today / sonae (Institut für Betrachtung), comprising:
— Pretending – Sophie II – Nkisi
— Transit – Isabelle Finou Territory War – Bromo
— On Migration – A Bhaskar Rao We Are Here – Sonae
— On Femicide – rec-on.org
— Fear, Uncertinity, Doubt – Holly Herndon White Maetel – Chino Amobi
— On Oppression – rec-on.org Kollu I-Joloud – Zuli feat. Msylma
— System Immanent Value Defect – Sonae On Frontex – rec-on.org
— Animal Union – Bromo Vulnerbody – Zuli Solidare – AGF
— Are you free? – Nkisi In Your Head – Zuli
— You Concrete – Lee Gamble