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last updated 17 08 2005
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Social and Cultural Program
Various social events are planned for the participants:
- Welcome Reception:
Monday, July 25, 18:45-21:00 during Poster Session I, ground floor of the Physics Building
- Snack Buffet:
Tuesday, July 26, 18:45-21:00 during Poster Session II, ground floor of the Physics Building
- Conference Excursion:
The conference excursion on Wednesday afternoon, July 27, will take us by boat through the city of Berlin including the historic center and many other touristic attractions. A free bus service will be provided from the Physics Building to the River Bank ("Schlossbrücke Charlottenburg"), leaving at exactly 13:50. Boats depart at 14:00 for a four-hour roundtrip.
- Conference Dinner:
A barbecue buffet will be held on Wednesday evening, July 27, around 18:30 at the historic Inn "Alte Fischerhütte" founded in 1723 and situated directly by the lake Schlachtensee in the forest Grunewald in the south-western district of Berlin-Zehlendorf. Participants will be taken there by buses directly after the boat trip.
Tickets for accompanying persons for the excursion + dinner may be bought from the Conference Office at the price of 60 EUR.
Music Complexes is an exhibition and installation of some of the results
of the Musical Acoustics Research in Modelling and Signal Processing at the
Institute of Systematic Musicology at the University of Hamburg. Following the
almost one hundred year old tradition of musical acoustics at the Institute
combined with psychoacoustic and music psychology research, the work over the
last ten years has tried to shed light onto acoustical problems asked by
musicians about the fine structure of their instrument sounds and playing.
The cooperation with artists and musicians from Hamburg is also intended to
show this interplay.
Judit Haman, who prepares the installation, is one of the most
prominent
artists from Hamburg in Modern Performance and Installation and has much
experience in cooperation with music and musicians. She strives to create
a room where the questions, problems and fields of research are not only
shown, but can be experienced as such, showing the ideas of research in an
aesthetic way. Therefore she tries to present the modern style of musical
acoustics in an interactive, tense, and perceptive way.
In a concert on Tuesday, 26 July at 19:30 pm in Room PN 115, selected
results of modelling and signal processing presented as computer plots
are re-interpreted as music once again in order to concentrate aesthetically
on these complex systems. The musicians, Heiner Metzger on
saxophone and clarinet, Prof. Manfred Stahnke from Hamburg Music
Conservatory on synthesizer and piano, and Rolf Bader on guitars,
create within about 45 minutes a soundscape that interprets the works, and
findings from reasoning, and puts it into time and musical space. This worked successfully already twice before in two concerts of exhibitions and installations called
ANKLANG during the last four years. Here, as then, listening to the music of computer plots, which at the same time are projected on screen, and are thus visible
to the audience, hopefully closes again the circle from
science to music, where all the analyses have started from.
- During the conference, there will be an exhibition of experiments on chaos and
pattern formation on the first floor of the Physics Building in Room PN 115.
- There will be book and journal exhibitions by several publishing companies
in the lobby in front of the lecture halls on the second floor of the Physics
Building during the whole conference.
- A list of various cultural and musical events in Berlin during the week of
the conference will be available at the conference office. In particular,
the Einstein exhibition in the Kronprinzenpalais may be of interest.
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