The internationally sought-after artist could be won again this year to develop an installation for this year’s festival theme …alive: Music and Nature. The starting point of this year’s collaboration was Shiota’s installation “Direction of Consciousness”, which was expanded by a sonic-musical level and a spatial concept, through which musicians and audience alike were part of the whole. This included a sound that was continuously present in the space: an electronic composition of sounds from sources of the rivers in the immediate vicinity, designed by the composer Vincent Stange, who was already part of the artistic team as a Junior Fellow in 2021. Emerging from this sound field, the compositions of the three-hour evening were performed. The resonant relationships between space, installations and music continued in the inner courtyard of the Academy in Kronenburg and in the two other exhibition spaces.