"The fictitious ‘Zentrale für Mobilitätsforschung’ (Center for Mobility Research) in Freiburg marks its 70th anniversary with a new name: the ‘Zentrale für Mobilitätsfragen’ (ZfMf – Center for Questions on Mobility). With its rebranding, the center signals its interest in engagement with the city’s public and makes scholarly content, such as mobility data, environmental issues, developmental […]

Our ensemble also encounters TIPPING POINTS – for example, when a member leaves. Such a moment lies ahead: at the end of 2026, our cellist Åsa Åkerberg will be leaving the ensemble. For over two decades she has decisively shaped the ensemble’s sound and collaborative spirit – her departure is a significant change for all […]

Our concept of music does not end at the ear. Sound emerges in the interplay of perception, gesture, image, and imagination – what we see shapes what we hear, and vice versa. After our first REINGELAUSCHT concert last season we now shift our focus towards the visual. When does something tip from the visual into […]

Our forest rustles and chirps, babbles and drips – and yet most of its sounds elude the human ear. Composer Kirsten Reese and biologist and ecoacoustician Dr. Sandra Müller of the University of Freiburg have listened more closely: with hydrophones in streams, ground sensors in the soil, and specialist microphones at tree trunks. Over months […]

Time is often imagined as a river flowing from past through present into future. But in the languages of the Yolŋu, the indigenous people of Arnhem Land in northern Australia, a fourth tense exists: a grammatical form in which the three time divisions do not succeed but fold into one another.A time that does not […]