Moodle

Hello everyone,

For the ones using the facilities these next days, Funkhaus is having an event on the 18th and 19th. They informed us about the following:

- The Milchbar / Zola will continue to sell food and drinks in the catering area in the inner courtyard 

- 16.07. - July 20, 2024 Arrival: A security guard will let you onto the premises at the gate. Password: Funkhaus tenant

- 16.07. - 07/20/2024 Factory garden, Block B river bank not usable

- 17.07. - 07/20/2024 Block D Riverside (in front of the Shedhalle), please do not use the Block B car park

- 16.07. - 07/20/2024 Please keep the area in front of the Drink & Draw delivery point Shedhalle free

Have a great end of your week!

Gaswerk Music Days is a 3-day music festival organised by Gaswerksieldung Berlin, taking place in its lush gardens, sweet cafe and creative studios. Here experimental electronics, jazz, noise, avant-pop, improvisation and dance music are united under our “Radical Live Music” flag, binding and crossing genres in a program with over 30 acts.

The festival is looking for students of Catalyst to make this amazing event happen! Sign up via the form below to get involved with everything from technical support to artist care. 

• SIGN UP HERE
  
• Festival dates: 12-24 July 
• Submit by: 28 June
• Location: Gaswerksiedlung, Blockdammweg 1 and Köpenicker Chaussee 24-39, 10317 Berlin (Funkhaus tram stop!)

/// Line up

AFRICAN HEAD CHARGE, CASSETTE HEAD SESSIONS, Cinna Peyghamy, Contagious, DAS ENDE DER LIEBE, Gonzo M + Mada Dudi, JAMES HOLDEN, Kore Kru Suprise Night, les ephemeres, LORD OF THE AMAZING PANTHER, MARINA HERLOP, Marta De Pascalis, Maurice Louca + Ayman Asfour, Natalia Escobar, NEWEN AFROBEAT, Perera Elsewhere, PRAED, Rabih Beaini, Rashad Becker, Roméo Poirier, Rouge Mécanique, Saeko Killy, Samuel Rohrer, Sarah Farina, Spill (Tony Buck + Magda Mayas), THE HELIOCENTRICS, Thomash, Triana Hermana Juana, Trio Heinz Herbert, WaqWaq Kingdom, zeug + Scott Monteith

Catalyst x RSB @ Kuhlhaus

When: Thursday 20 June, 19:30
Where: Kühlhaus Berlin, Luckenwalder Str. 3, 10963 Berlin

As part of our partnership with the RSB Orchestra, we present a night that blends contemporary electronic musicians and classical compositions as a way to contrast different visions of what the future of sound would look like. The event will feature original compositions from our own community as well as five classical musicians performing pieces by famous 20th Century composers.

For the event in the Kuhlhaus atrium, Electronic Music Production & Performance Certificate Lead Benjamin Bacon has written ‘Gesture Contours I-III’ – a graphic modular score for acoustic and electronic instruments. The piece stems from projects from our HyperSynth collaboration with the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin and uses graphic forms commonly seen when describing synthetic sound. It will be performed by Creative Production (Music) MA student Jonas Kern. The night will also feature Creative Production (Music) MA student Grgur Savic’s digital-animated graphic composition ‘ETERNAL FORCES OF SAVIGNY'S PRIME’

💥Students of Catalyst can purchase reduced price tickets for just €10! The discount tickets can be purchased here by using the code CAT10 when paying. Note that there is a limited number of reduced price tickets. 

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///Jonas Kern

Is a multimedia artist and electroacoustic musician based in Berlin. His multimedial works explore the mergence of rich narrative soundscapes and audio-reactive visuals as could be seen in different installational formats - like his experimental saxophone live performance/ installation A Film Without A Film (2021), or his more recent Into Your Dream Temple (2023) in collaboration with Temple Rat. His electroacoustic compositions have mostly found a voice in the independent film scene of Berlin, appearing in projects such as Lost in Time (2019) and Feuerkreis (2022). Kern specialises in immersive creative processes, exploring practices such as acting in films he scores and involving music from early stages of the production of films.

Under the moniker Forest Choir, Kern creates lyrical, transcendental auditive spaces for self-exploration and narrative meditation, using live vocals, field recordings and synthesiser

jonaskern.org

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/// Grgur Savic

Is a Croatian-German experimental composer, saxophonist, and curator. His artistic research is focused on the development of contemporary and experimental repertoire based on the basics of extended instrumental techniques, and graphic compositions with a focus on new music technologies and experimental electronics. He leads his main projects – PITCH SHIFTING, Ensemble The F O R: M, G.S – VORTEX, and SPACE TIGERS BERLIN. Curates "das Ende" experimental and AV music series. 

This composition combines analog handcrafted techniques with digitized computer methods. The animated graphic score encourages a creative approach and musical decision-making that connects the auditory experience with the visual aspect, aiming to achieve both harmony and tension between pitches, articulations, dynamics, and durations to enhance visual resonance. While it is desirable to capture the intended idea as closely as possible by combining exact notations with impromptu elements, the goal is not to impose strict restrictions or fixed limits. Instead, the aim is to provide a ‘framed notational system’ that offers guidance and opportunities for further sound exploration.

Hello everyone!

The school will close at 3pm this Friday, June 11th, due to an all team workshop taking place in the afternoon.

See you all around before that 💫

I hope you’re all looking forward to this Friday’s first ever school-wide awards ceremony, 'The Catties'. Previously this existed as the Film Awards, but in order to foster inclusion, collaboration and celebration across programmes we have expanded this to the whole school. Each programme has 1-2 dedicated awards that highlight and celebrate what is unique about their course. 

Key timings:

• 15:00–16:30: screening + voting for Best Film in Co Lab 2

• 17:00–18:30: The Catties, Catalyst Awards Ceremony (with host Merlina Scheffler, Catalyst Alum)

• 18:00–the end: We party! See all set times here. 

Awards listed in the order they will be presented and where possible, links to their work have been included so you can explore the works of those nominated.

And the nominees are… 

Outstanding Achievement in Music and Sound for Visual Media

Recognising consistent creativity, conceptualisation, execution and professionalism

• Irene Favata, MSVM23

• Matteo Olivieri, MSVM23

• Hsuan Lo, MSVM23

• Gigi Beatrice, MSVM23

Best Film or Project, Creative Production (Film) Masters

Recognising innovation, originality and uniqueness of voice

• Canan Çengel for "Passengers", CPF21

• Ned Johnstone for "Charmed", CPF22

• Charlie Black for "Bye Bye Christmas", CPF23

• Ewan Waddell for "Uncomfortable Things", CPF21

Producer of the Year, Creative Audio Production and Sound Engineering

• Samuel Benko, CAP22

• Aneesh Chengappa, CAP22

• Kwaku Frimpong, CAP22

• Laura Leguna, CAP22

• Diego Verissimo, CAP22

Best Large Scale Project, Creative Audio Production and Sound Engineering

• Nicholas Schuman, CAP21

• Robert Jones (Coleman), CAP21

• Luis Mora, CAP21

• Jan Burgr, CAP21

The Imagination in Motion Award, Visual Effects, Digital Art & Animation

• Viktorija Andermane (Leo), VFX22

• Dave Juker, VFX23

• Marcus Oliveira, VFX22

• Shahd Issa, VFX23

Outstanding collaborator, Electronic Music Production & Performance

A person that is really doing well in collaborating and A person that goes beyond in collaborating and supporting others, whether on school projects or general projects.

• Anastasiia Zyrianova, EMP22

• Tereza Pistelakova, EMP22

• Mike Barnett, EMP22

• Shelly Lieber, EMP22

Outstanding creative vision, Electronic Music Production & Performance

For the demonstration of outstanding ability to carve a creative pathway for yourself and others

• Blue Simon, EMP22

• Marius Hay-Smith, EMP21

• Nino Theys, EMP22

Best Ensemble, Screen Acting (all years)

Best show, or Screen Acting cast in a film

• Night of 5 (group show of 5 solo shows from SA21A)

• Marie Antoinette, class of SA22A

• Show must go on, class of SA23B

• Tartuffe, class of SA22B

Best performance or collection of performance work

• Francesca Bussalai, SA21 for Salvatore, who is it?

• Rhys Williams, SA21 for The Queen's Head

• Marla Xaviera, SA22 for Marie Antoinette

• Rachel Leong, SA21 for Look to the Moon and There You Will Find Me

• Khiri Chumtong, SA21 for i’MAsUBuRbaNduDE

New Directions award, Creative Production (Music) Masters

This award recognises the courage, patience, and dedication needed to forge new directions in your artistic research during the MA. Whether exploring new conceptual universes, new techniques and technologies, or plumbing the depths of your contextual investigations to bring about new insights for your art—all of it is worthy of recognition.

• Yuxin Mei, CPM-22PT

• Maria Paula Mondragon, CPM-22PT

• Davide Borgo, CPM-23FT

• Connor Oman, CPM-22PT

Best Film, Film Production, (all years)

• Kaito Sashihara, FP21 (Pelargonia)

• George Jenkins,FP22 (Goodbye To God)

• Hanna Mirtel Paas, FP22 (Let The Light Rise Upon The Forest)

• Sonia Kharitoniouk, FP22 (A Nook of One’s Bliss)

• Calen Dawkins, FP21 (Until Death) 

Audience Award, Film Production Degree, (all years)

• Above films

Golden Gorilla (all courses)

Most adventurous/risky/audacious/bold/groundbreaking artist going above and beyond 

• Announced on the night

Spirit Award (all courses)

Personifying the Catalyst Spirit of collaboration & community

• Announced on the night

*Any MA films completed between May of the previous academic year and May of the current academic year may be considered (as the course runs until August)