Songs shape cultures, create identities and bring people together. Above all, they draw maps that describe our outer and inner world. SONGLINES aims to get to the bottom of these maps: ultimately, to find out more about what touches, affects, and, in the best case, connects us all.

In a three-day “Klangwerkstatt” workshop, singers and musicians of different genres, disciplines and nationalities will meet to get to know each other, experiment, learn from each other, work together and develop new ideas. The results of the workshop will be presented in performances at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum on 04/10/2020.

Since the winter semester 2019/2020, SONGLINES have also been walked at Nuremberg University of Music. Students and lecturers from various fields of study are turning their attentions to the transculturality of songs and music in creative projects, both artistically and scientifically: with songs that connect people, countries and continents. Songs that make diversity and cultural variety audible, and also those that persist throughout the changing course of history.