Hauntings – Sonic Spectres Ghosts, shadows and revenants in today’s music

50% concert 50% hauntology

For around five years now, the expansive field of music between Sampledelica and Dub Noir has been operating under the name of “Hauntology”. What these artists in this heterogeneous scene have in common is their work with ghostly echoes and vintage sounds from the past, sometimes interpreted as the projection of a lost future. Characteristically, they have a penchant for paranormal (media) phenomena, invoking their uncanny closeness in many different ways. In addition, they often play with effects of intimacy and distance and tap into pools of references from obscure film and television soundtracks. An exploration of music aesthetics, that has long since cast off its retro label.

Besides this series of concerts at musikprotokoll, "Hauntings" explores more secret and uncanny presences in media, art and pop in the frame of an exhibition at Kunstverein Medienturm and an evening of film at the festival district cinema.

Hauntings – Ghost Box Media

Cinema: Hölle Hamburg



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