The November edition of TUNE is dedicated to The New Atlantis - an orchestra of sound practices. The collaborative project founded by composer and sound designer Nicolas Becker with Tarek Atoui, Quentin Sirjacq and Julien Colardelle brings together an original ensemble of musicians and performers. It functions as a laboratory for in situ creation, where musicians, artists, filmmakers, researchers, and instrument makers come together to form new connections. At its core, the ensemble is dedicated to developing immersive experiences and experimental musical structures through improvisation. Combining ancient instruments, new lutheries, electronic and electroacoustic systems, sculptures, and sound objects, the project becomes a playground for sonic exploration.
The name The New Atlantis refers to the 1627 text by philosopher Francis Bacon, who envisioned a utopian society guided by empirical knowledge and experimentation. In this fictional narrative, Bacon imagined "sound houses“; spaces for acoustic research, speculative instruments, and sonic inventions. As one of the first European intellectuals to highlight the significance of sound in science and art, Bacon’s vision resonates with the ambitions of the collective in imagining new futures.
Past collaborators have included artists such as Pan Daijing and Youmna Saba – both of whom also have been connected to Haus der Kunst.
Programme
Friday, 7.11.25
2 pm | Workshop for Children
4 pm | Workshop for Children
Saturday, 8.11.25
7 pm | Artist Talk
8 pm | Concert
For TUNE The New Atlantis will present two workshops for children followed by an “open rehearsal” on Friday, 7.11.25, and a deeply immersive concert featuring different guest musicians on Saturday, 8.11.25.
For both the concert and the workshop, The New Atlantis presents the Baschet instrumentarium, a unique set of instruments created in the mid 20th century by the Baschet brothers, a composer and a sculptor. Both stunning sound sculptures and a form of social experimentation, they are designed with children, non-musicians and even re-patients in mind. They can’t be learned in a conventional way, they can only be experienced; they vibrate, scream and sing.
