Mobile Music Museum and Sound Art Festival in the City Centre of Bocholt

On 16 and 17 June, the sound art festival "Soundseeing" will take place in Bocholt's city centre on Neutorplatz. Families are cordially invited to discover the Mobile Music Museum by artist Michael Bradke and explore unusual sounds themselves. These instruments also offer the very young sound explorers the opportunity to make music on their own, without being able to read music.

The Münsterland-wide sound art festival "Soundseeing" is coming to Bocholt! On 16 and 17 June, visitors can marvel at the KlangKanal and the water orchestra in Bocholt's city centre. Both installations are part of Michael Bradke's Mobile Music Museum.

"As part of the Sounseeing Festival, we deliberately decided to bring instruments into the city centre of Bocholt for people to try out," says Jule Wanders, Head of the Department of Culture and Education. "We would like to invite families with children in particular to try out this unique experience of making music on unusual instruments," says Wanders. On Friday, things get underway on Neutorplatz at 2 pm, and the instruments can then be tested until 6 pm. On Saturday, the instruments are open to the public from 11 am to 5 pm.

Michael Bradke's Mobile Music Museum has been around for 20 years and is intended to encourage children in particular to actively make music. With his sound sculptures, musical instruments and noise tools, Michael Bradke travels internationally and works in cooperation with museums, cultural education institutions and schools.

The music school festival will take place at the same time.

All information is available at www.bocholt.de/musikschulfest

About SOUNDSEEING

20,000 visitors were captivated by the Münsterland-wide sound festival SOUNDSEEING at the last edition in 2021. In 2023, SOUNDSEEING will once again specifically link international sound artists with the NRW sound art scene, which is considered one of the most active and high-profile in Europe.

The festival will take place from March to August 2023. The festival programme includes four sound art exhibitions, sound art installations, extraordinary concerts, sound art projects for participation, sound art workshops and interactions...

SOUNDSEEING is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Kunststiftung NRW, the Gelsenwasser Foundation and Münsterland e. V..

Culture and media partners are WDR 3, kultur.west and the Netzwerk Leichte Sprache. The sponsor is the Landesmusikakademie NRW.

For more information, please visit the website of the Klangkunstfestival www.soundseeing.net.

About the "KlangKanal

The KlangKanal consists of many long canal plastic pipes from the underground construction site. Very different and many instruments can be built from these pipes. Angle pieces and branches create a large pipe system that can be changed again and again.

A total of 80 participants can try out the instruments at the same time, and the KlangKanal also offers children as young as three the opportunity to make music on their own. The action offers to discover the instruments, to make music and to build sculptures with the pipes.

The water orchestra consists of a total of 50 instruments that produce sounds of water or need water to produce sound. The music play activity is suitable for up to 50 people at a time and also offers children, as young as 2 years old, a great opportunity to make music themselves. The arrangement of the instruments encourages the participants to become musically active together.