Europa InTakt is a series of events at TU Dortmund University on the topic of music and inclusion. In 2003, Europa InTakt took place for the first time as an event organised by the then Chair of Music at the Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences at TU Dortmund University - Prof. Dr. Irmgard Merkt - on the occasion of the European Year of People with Disabilities. Further events were initially held every two years, then at irregular intervals. Now there was another Europa InTakt at TU Dortmund in autumn 2022, under the motto "classic goes digital".
"Classic goes digital". Why? All over Europe, inventive people have come up with new media in recent years to help people with disabilities make music. Old instruments are being fitted with sensors, new instruments invented and computer programmes further developed. Traditional music making, the classical playing of an instrument - classic - is being expanded to include the creation of sounds with electronic help - digital. Classic versus digital? No. Classic goes digital! Together and interdisciplinary it continues. With composition and improvisation, with reproduction, variation and experiment. Inclusion is avant-garde, also and especially in music. Inclusion is creativity - and good music! All this is shown at the Festival Europa InTakt.
Video by Katharina Herkommer and Jörg Lohner / nmzMedia.