REMAIIN’s Portugese partner festival OUT.FEST (organized by OUT.RA) has made its pick from the open call, announced shortly before the global pandemic of 2020 – Hungarian experimental muscian Gosheven, who performed at their event on June 5. Gosheven presented his new work „Antipodal Polyphony”, and accompanied it with a lecture.

German composer, performer and instrument designer Werner Durand dives into his personal history of the dual worlds of experiments with eastern traditions versus the western traditions of experiments.
The essay is complemented by his musical contribution „ Soft Turbulences”, played on the Pan-Ney, an instrument of his own design tuned in just Intonation.

Concert series Kontraklang – REMAIIN’s Berlin partner organization – focuses on the film music of composer Teiji Ito for its first activity as part of the project. A lecture performance/film titled “The Cosmic Music of Teiji Ito”, created by Michiko Ogawa and Manuel Pessoa de Lima, can be streamed for free on this website.

German contemporary music journalist Martina Seeber zooms in on the non-Western musical influences in the work of legendary avant-garde composer Giacinto Scelsi and disperses several misconceptions about his life and creative output. The text is accompanied by a musical homage to Scelsi by saxophonist Andre Vida and composer Augustin Maurs.