Tonality Theater

Tonality Theater is a series of interdisciplinary contemporary sound art works that combine music, sound art with visual, film, spatial art, performance and installation in a single work. The focus is on works by the composers and instrumentalists Uri Caine, Gareth Davis, Christian Mason, James Weeks, and Fumio Yasuda in collaboration with Ensemble Recherche and the EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble.

The exhibitions take place in Pavilion 333 on the east side of the Pinakothek der Moderne in collaboration with Neue Klangkunst and the TUM Center for Culture and Art. Pavilion 333 is a wooden-glass cube, a special kind of art space between the Pinakothek der Moderne, Galerie Wittenbrink, Galerie Thomas and Museum Brandhorst. It is an art space in the middle of Munich’s art district Kunstareal, where citizens and visitors stroll. The aim of Tonality Theater is to enable sound art, interdisciplinary works with composition and the narrative power of sounds; it is about intermedial art forms in which sounds merge with other arts and media to form a complete work.

The sound installations are made possible by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

Further information:
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Dates

Part I: Titanismus [Prologue]
November 13, 2025 (Opening)
Nov 14-16; 18-23, 2025 (Installation)
Composition: Gareth Davis

Part II: Span of Being
December 4-7, 2025 (Live Performance)
December 9-14, 2025 (Installation)
Composition: Uri Caine & James Weeks

Part III : Opposite, You, Me
December 25, 2025 (Opening)
December 26, 2025-January 4, 2026 (Installation)
Tue–Sun, closed Mondays
Composition: Christian Mason

Part IV: in unknown elements… in endless transmutation…
February 19, 2026 (Opening)
February 20-March 1, 2026 (Installation)
Tue–Sun, closed Mondays
Composition: Christian Mason

Part V: The Glass Cage
March 19-22, 2026
Composition: Fumio Yasuda

Pavilion 333, Munich