In today's cultural and political discourse, border has become a multi-layered, semantically oscillating and affectively charged term that is becoming increasingly explosive. This applies to political borders, whose attempts at change lead to cruel wars, as well as cultural borders, which are being drawn ever more sharply in the context of new identity politics. It is often difficult to distinguish whether border crossings and border permeability are a genuine interest in foreign culture or cultural appropriation. The increasingly permeable and vulnerable personal boundaries are also a central aspect: torn between physical, emotional, mental, temporal and financial boundaries, individuals are often lost and forego communication altogether.

Individual, personal "border politics" moves between extreme poles: Borderline disorder on the one hand, emancipative possibilities of overcoming and transcending identity-restricting encapsulations on the other. Limits of perception also become musically relevant: limits of audibility, pain limits of volume, etc. Emotional and political aspects of the border ("borderless" love, "limited" access to information, social groups, cultural elites or counter-elites, "limit values" of expression) are also aspects that find their specific meaning and possibilities of expression in musical practice.

Boundaries and the options for overcoming and dissolving them are scrutinized in Trio Generator's new project.

supported by the Initiative Neue Musik Berlin e.V.

Trio Generator is part of the Artists in Residence program of the Acker Stadt Palast Berlin.