FUNKT #2

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

— Switchology / Armin Badde, João Martins, Raffael Seyfried, Florian Zeeh, hans w. koch, Julian Rohrhuber
— Windows wide open, 35°C / Poly Palms: Andreas O. Hirsch, Jan Arlt, Patricia Koellges, Volker Hennes
— Scheinleistung (VA) / Britta Fehrmann, hans w. koch
— 1st German Electrophonic Orchestra / Rochus Aust and his device-orientated group of machinists
— 'Mind-reading (?) Machine' / Marcus Schmickler, Julian Rohrhuber
— Der schreiende Ast / Viktoria Gurtovaj, Bob Humid
— Tryptichon (Daemon In Bar [feat. Holger Czukay as Narrator] - 600 Feet Heavy Metal - Distant Cousins - Pit / Exit [Excerpt]) / Bob Humid (solo)