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festival für digitale soundexperimente, elektronische musik, performance, tanz, installation

BLAUES RAUSCHEN

Dieses Festival für Elektronische Musik und Digitale Experimente lotet Möglichkeiten aus, die aktuelle technische Entwicklungen Künstler*innen und ihrem Publikum bieten. standortbestimmung im digital

Präsentiert werden Künstler*innen, die die Möglichkeiten analog/digitaler oder rein digitaler Technik nutzen, um künstlerische und politische Positionen zu Fragen aktueller gesellschaftlicher Entwicklungen einzunehmen. Dazu finden in mehreren Ruhrgebietsstädten Konzerte, Performances, Installationen und Vorträge statt. Die Künstler*innen treten – angelehnt an die Pecha Kucha Vortragstechnik- in ca. 20-Minütigen Slots und nahezu ohne Pause hintereinander auf.

07/10/2026

BLAUES RAUSCHEN

launches satellites into orbit

With its satellites, BLAUES RAUSCHEN is extending its radius. Venues with an artistic connection to the festival take up its themes and questions and develop their own programmes around them. Satellites can take place during the festival as well as between festival editions.

The respective organisers shape and produce their programmes independently. BLAUES RAUSCHEN provides the conceptual connection and supports communication through its own channels and festival mailing list.

At the centre are themes that BLAUES RAUSCHEN has explored since its beginnings: analogue and digital, electronic sound design, new technologies, experimental approaches to sound, and the interplay between music, space and audience.

The next satellite launches on 17 October at the Rabbit Hole Theatre in Essen: the Henning Neidhardt Trio meets RSN for a “Collaborative Ambient Jazz Improvisation”. Four musicians, shifting constellations, ambient, jazz and field recordings. What happens when electronic soundscapes, acoustic improvisation and space come together? Best to come along and find out for yourself.

There will also be an opening act. Who it is remains a secret for now.

And you may already have noticed: in the new logo, “blue noise” complements the name BLAUES RAUSCHEN, making it immediately accessible to an international audience.

Music: Compulsive Plucking © Karl-Heinz Blomann
© Photo Rabbit Hole Theater: Dominik Hertrich

02/10/2026

BLAUES RAUSCHEN ON WDR 3 📻

The next WDR 3 concert broadcast will be on air. Tune in and enjoy Ilka Geyer’s presentation and the performances, whether you missed the concert or would like to enjoy the music again.

WDR 3 – “Finetuning im Ohrgebiet: Blaues Rauschen 2026” with Ilka Geyer
OCTOBER 4, 20:03 – 23:00

Host: Ilka Geyer
Editor: Markus Heuger

What you can expect: Live recordings from the performances of INNODE, Verena Hentschel, burgund t brandt, Thomas Lehn x Georg Gräwe, Merche Blasco and Robert Lippok.

The concerts are available for listening online in the WDR 3 media library for 30 days.

ENJOY LISTENING! (Link in bio)

Music: Compulsive Plucking © Karl-Heinz Blomann

05/07/2026

BLAUES RAUSCHEN ON WDR 3 📻

The next WDR 3 concert broadcast is on air. Tune in and enjoy Ilka Geyer’s presentation and the performances, whether you missed the concert or would like to enjoy the music again.

WDR 3 – “More Sounds of the Future - Blaues Rauschen” with Ilka Geyer
JULY 5, 20:03 – 23:00

Moderation: Ilka Geyer
Redaktion: Markus Heuger

What you can expect: Live recordings from the performances of Lisa L. Zwinzscher x Neasa Ní Bhriain, Nadia Struiwigh, Navid Navab, Stephanie Castonguay und Tarik Haskić.

The concerts are available for listening online in the WDR 3 media library for 30 days.

ENJOY LISTENING! (Link in bio)

Music: Compulsive Plucking © Karl-Heinz Blomann

20/06/2026

BLAUES RAUSCHEN ON AIR 📻

We are so pleased to have WDR 3 radio as a partner for the festival. Thanks to the dedication of Ilka Geyer and Markus Heuger, you’ll be able to hear the first concert recordings from BLAUES RAUSCHEN 2026 live on the radio on June 21.

WDR 3 – “Wirklich möglich! Blaues Rauschen 2026” with Ilka Geyer
JUNE 21, 20:03 – 23:00

Moderation: Ilka Geyer
Redaktion: Markus Heuger

What you can expect: Live recordings from the performances of Molly Joyce, Başak Günak, Hye Young Sin, Farzané and gamut inc as well as interviews with the artists.

ENJOY LISTENING! (Link in bio)

Music: Compulsive Plucking © Karl-Heinz Blomann

15/06/2026

RECAP DOMICIL – DORTMUND

The 2026 festival drew to a close with a packed house and a great atmosphere at Dortmund’s domicil.

We kicked off the evening with Merche Blasco’s “FAUNA”: household gadgets and homemade instruments expanded our understanding of sound amidst strobe lights and earth-shaking bass. Playful scratchy sounds, snippets of vocals and magical little light bulbs made the performance visually and aurally engaging. Fun fact: Merche gives all her homemade instruments cute little names.

After 30 years of friendship, Georg Gräwe and Thomas Lehn celebrated their duet debut at BLAUES RAUSCHEN. Structured and improvised, active impulses triggered automatic responses: in “Key Commands”, a live grand piano and synthesiser merged into a transcendent exchange. This created a chaotic interplay of impulses that formed into new motifs. Amidst the noise, chaos and silence, the bond between the two was particularly evident.

Robert Lippok brought the festival to a close with “Material”. Starting with cymbals, rods and the crackling of an amplifier, a tense, rustling atmosphere emerged that made the room crackle with energy. Enter electronic sounds! Layer upon layer, the sound built ever higher, only to ground itself in the end with a return to the raw material.

What´s next? On June 21 at 8 p.m., a first selection of concerts of BLAUES RAUSCHEN 2026 will be broadcast on WDR 3 radio. You can expect a three-hour program with performances and interviews, presented by Ilka Geyer.

BLAUES RAUSCHEN 2026
📅 MAY 29 - JUNE 12
🎟️ Tickets on our homepage (link in bio)

Music Intro: Compulsive Plucking © Karl-Heinz Blomann

Photos © Etta Gerdes
Video Footage © Birte Mundhenk, Nick Müller, Eckart Waage

12/06/2026

RECAP LOKAL HARMONIE - DUISBURG

At the quaint Lokal Harmonie in Duisburg, a cozy pub atmosphere met an experimental lab.

With “Schwellenzustand,” Verena Hentschel took us into a liminal world between melancholy and fascination made up of layers of sound, resonant melodies and meditative elements. Sprinkled with glitch sounds and bass lines, we were drawn into a space between stability and the search for the new.

Calculation and spontaneity: in “Fieldrecordings, Mini Disks and Konstruktion #4,” we experienced Andrea Ermke and Annette Krebs navigating the gap between calm and noise, both musically and performatively. Using Mini Discs as a foundation, the sounds of sheet metal, wind-up toys, and guitar strings unfolded into an immersive atmosphere.

Finally INNODE shook the venue with “GRAIN.” Live drums and layers of sound were stacked and interwoven with the utmost precision, allowing a certain degree of irregularity. The result was an architecture supple in its forms as well as sharp-edged at the margins. Condensed and streamlined, the rhythms, noises, and sounds transformed into a cohesive whole.

With an open-minded audience and captivating acts, the evening was incredibly fun. And now we’re looking forward to a great closing night in Dortmund at Domicil!

Don’t want to miss BLAUES RAUSCHEN? Get your tickets at blaues-rauschen.ticket.io.

BLAUES RAUSCHEN 2026
📅 MAY 29 - JUNE 12
🎟️ Tickets on our homepage (link in bio)

Music Intro: Compulsive Plucking © Karl-Heinz Blomann

Photos © Etta Gerdes
Video Footage © Birte Mundhenk, Eckart Waage

ruhrgebiet

11/06/2026

RECAP ADA (GRILLO-THEATER) - ESSEN

We were delighted to find ourselves back at the ADA in Essen’s Grillo-Theater.

The evening opened with burgund t brandt and her improvisation “Between Distances.” Using Software Defined Radio, she made vibrations caused by airflow audible, embedded in a whimsical, calm, and meditative soundscape of microscopic sounds. Together, it felt like stepping into an underwater world.

Vibration, beams of light, dance – that is Xiao Fu x Andzejus Voroneckis’ “Fluidity.” Accompanied by a pulsating bass, we witnessed an impressive performance that straddled expressive dance and sign language, set to melancholic yet driving music full of depth.

Ignaz Schick closed out the evening with “ROTARY PERCEPTIONS for turntables.” Amid scratchy chaos, silence, and jazz records, he experimented with colorful vinyls that had been cut up and glued back together. And that was wild in the truest sense of the word.

And so a multifaceted evening comes to an end. Now it’s time to enjoy the last two festival evenings!

Don’t want to miss BLAUES RAUSCHEN? Get your tickets at blaues-rauschen.ticket.io.

BLAUES RAUSCHEN 2026
📅 MAY 29 - JUNE 12
🎟️ Tickets on our homepage (link in bio)

Music Intro: Compulsive Plucking © Karl-Heinz Blomann

Photos © Etta Gerdes
Video Footage © Birte Mundhenk, Eckart Waage

09/06/2026

RECAP ANNELIESE BROST MUSIKFORUM RUHR - BOCHUM

Three very special concerts took place in the sold-out “Kleiner Saal” at the Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr in Bochum. We would like to thank the many guests who attended and a big THANK YOU goes to our partner, the Musikschule Bochum and to Rainer Buschmann, who made this possible.

The evening was opened by the duo gamut inc. In „BLACK SQUARE“, they made microtonalities audible through a bubbling, dreamlike organ system, while black-and-white images of architecture and landscape created a contemplative visual counterpart to the music.

In their “Live Coding Improvisation”, Benoît and the Mandelbrots demonstrated just how well live coding can work as a band. The four drew the audience into their digital world full of earth-shaking bass, glitchy sci-fi sounds and non-verbal communication.

In the final act, we witnessed Navid Navab as a conductor of pipes. With „Organism: In Turbulence“, he created a captivating interplay between organ pipes, developing an improvised musical dialogue that moved playfully between the instrument and its individual pipes. With impressive presence and conviction, he produced music that ranged from poignant to playful, from direct to indirect.

This evening was all about finding the small changes, listening carefully, and connecting with code, breath and resonances within the space.

Don’t want to miss BLAUES RAUSCHEN? Get your tickets at blaues-rauschen.ticket.io.

BLAUES RAUSCHEN 2026
📅 MAY 29 - JUNE 12
🎟️ Tickets on our homepage (link in bio)

Music Intro: Compulsive Plucking © Karl-Heinz Blomann

Photos 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10,11 © Etta Gerdes
Photos 9,12 © WDR/Dirk Borm
Video Footage © Birte Mundhenk, Eckart Waage

08/06/2026

RECAP MAKROSCOPE - MÜLHEIM AN DER RUHR

A new day, a new evening of sound and vision. Regardless of the weather, the Makroscope was packed to the brim.

Steffi Weissmann kicked off the exciting evening with “Generation S”. In the microcosm she created, she explored a child’s perspective on life’s big questions through a blend of microsounds, balloons and live microscopy.

Voice x Violin: In “Introducing Pony~”, Lisa Zwinzscher (aka Pony Pracht) and Neasa Ní Bhriain challenged the ownership of their own voices. Chasing and imitating one another amidst playful and heavenly soft sounds creating an intimate atmosphere.

Towards the end of the Night, Dana Schechter x Monocube premiered “Blue Ocean/Black Sea” and explored the beauty of nature, regardless of home. With videography of the ocean and a haunting, rumbling depth, we were left with a sense of longing for connection.

An evening marked by sweat, collaboration and empathy.

Don’t want to miss BLAUES RAUSCHEN? Get your tickets at blaues-rauschen.ticket.io.

BLAUES RAUSCHEN 2026
📅 MAY 29 - JUNE 12
🎟️ Tickets on our homepage (link in bio)

Music Intro: Compulsive Plucking © Karl-Heinz Blomann

Photos © Etta Gerdes
Video Footage © Birte Mundhenk, Eckart Waage

06/06/2026

RECAP RABBIT HOLE THEATER & NEUE MUSIK ZENTRALE - ESSEN

On June 5, BLAUES RAUSCHEN took place at the once again packed Rabbit Hole Theater and the Neue Musik Zentrale. Even before the concerts began, there was a bustle of activity and lively conversation.

After SunJeong had to postpone her performance until next year, the evening kicked off with Tarik Haskić. With the deep sound of the organ pipe, “A Cycle of Tunings” resonated on the mist-filled stage. Filling the room with a peaceful atmosphere, building it up only to disrupt it with a modular synth synced to steel wool.

At the NMZ, Stephanie Castonguay presented her performance of “soft_cuts,” bringing together a playful set of repurposed vinyls with captivating basslines and sound snippets. Her joy in performing was simply infectious.

Last but not least, NKISI performed a haunting exploration of “paranormal audio and psychoacoustic recordings.” In “Anomaly Index,” we experienced glitchy synths and captivating drums within a truly powerful atmosphere.

The evening in Essen leaves us with impressions that lie somewhere between tangible material and palpable spirits.

Don’t want to miss BLAUES RAUSCHEN? Get your tickets at blaues-rauschen.ticket.io.

BLAUES RAUSCHEN 2026
📅 MAY 29 - JUNE 12
🎟️ Tickets on our homepage (link in bio)

Music Intro: Compulsive Plucking © Karl-Heinz Blomann

Photos © Etta Gerdes
Video Footage © Birte Mundhenk, Nick Müller, Eckart Waage

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