When
COMING
27.09.2025, 2:00 - 5:00 pm. Simon Keller: Flow is a contemplative duo performance on motion and stillness in the moment, using natural materials, clay, sand, stones, and airborne calligraphy in the minimalistic soundscape of Pentatonic Permutations by Berlin based artist Benjamin Heidersberger. It explores experiencing eons in that moment of liminality and transformation. The Performances will be held indoors at Lotus River Studio, 325 Main St, Metuchen, NJ, 08840.
2025
13.09.2025 Pentatonic Permutations is an algorithmic piano composition by Benjamin Heidersberger. It is an innovative and artistic use of the legal time of the PTB (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt), which is broadcast via the NTP network protocol and the DCF77 longwave transmitter.
On the Open Day on September 13, 2025, between 12 p.m. and 7 p.m., the media artist will present both the player and the browser-based version. Visitors can take the composition with them via a QR code or access it here: https://pentatonic-permutations.de. The PTB's address is Bundesallee 100, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany.
09.06.2025, 20:00 - 23:00, Pentatonic Permutations XIV, Pentecost Monday, St. Elisabeth, Invalidenstrasse 4, 10115 Berlin.
The Sotantar Yoga Shop in Berlin’s popular Helmholtz-Kiez (Schliemannstrasse 25A, 10437 Berlin) is playing Pentatonic Permutations. Open Tuesday - Friday 12 - 18:30, Saturday 12 - 17.
2024
05.07.2024 - 11.08.2024: Exhibition „Code - Kunst - Konstruktionen. Zur Geschichte der generativen Kunst“, Akademie der Künste Berlin und Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg.
15.06.2024, 12:30 - 13:00: Sound installation at the "7. Regionales Musikfest", Institut Heidersberger, Schloss Wolfsburg.
20.05.2024, 20:00 - 24:00: Pentecost Monday, Pentatonische Permutationen XIII, St. Elisabeth, Invalidenstrasse 4, 10115 Berlin.
16. - 18.05.2024: Pentatonic Permutations is present at Superbooth24 in collaboration with Pit Przygodda and his lovely visual synthesizer Silhouette in booth O405.
Premiere of "Raspberry Pi based installation art: the melody that started at the beginning of the universe", 11.2.2024 on Youtube by Alex Selck and Benjamin Heidersberger
Pentatonic Permutations Collective Listening video by Alex Selck
2023
"Pentatonic Permutations live at the Planetarium", 12.10.2023, 21:00 - 22:00 at the Astronomical Centre Rijeka during Glowing Globe, Changes and Challenges, Rijeka 2023, Croatia
"Pentatonic Permutations live at the Planetarium", 01.07.2023, 20:00 - 24:00 during the 85th Birthday of Wolfsburg at the Planetarium Wolfsburg. Video here
St. Elisabeth, Berlin, PPXII, 29.05.2023, Invalidenstrasse 4, 10115 Berlin, 20:00 - 24:00. In cooperation with Voxativ Loudspeakers and Kultur Büro Elisabeth
2022
Performance at Humboldt-University, Berlin (invitation only), 07.12.2022
St. Elisabeth, Berlin, PPXI, 03.10.2022, PPXI (short version), Invalidenstrasse 4, 10115 Berlin, 20:00 - 24:00
2021
St. Elisabeth, Berlin, PPX, 24.05.2021
2020
St. Elisabeth, Berlin, PPIX, 01.06.2020
Musical Offering at Ramana Ashram, Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India, 05.03.2020
Girivalam Road, Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India, 29.02.2020
2019
St. Elisabeth, Berlin, PPVIII, 09.06.2019
2018
St. Elisabeth, Berlin, PPVII, 20.05.2018
Music for "Epos of Gilgamesh", Scenic Reading, Experimentierbühne Wolfsburg, directed by Renate Heidersberger-Weber, May 2018
Pi and More 10 1/2, University of Stuttgart, 24.2.2018
Performance at Suddhananda Ashram, Adi Annamalai, Tamil Nadu, India, 17.02.2018, on a retreat with Madhukar
Planetarium Stuttgart, Innovationskongress Musik des Zukunftslabors Kulturamt, 27.01.2018, Zulab
2017
Humboldt-University, Berlin, “Is This Still Random” Perception and Complexity, exhibition curated by Nikita Braguinski, 17. - 21.07.2017
Futurelounge des 13. Zukunftkongresses des 2b AHEAD ThinkTanks im Schloss Wolfsburg, 22.06.2017
St. Elisabeth, Berlin, PPVI 04.06.2017
Peter Elsner: Galleria Saima, Helsinki, 07.02.2017
2016
Thinking in Algorithms, Zurich, 21.09.-25.11.2016, curated by Christina Scheublein und Georg Bak
Humboldt-University, Berlin, Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Medienwissenschaft, Fundus, 17.10.2016
Recording Session at St. Johannes Evangelist, 16.10.2016
’Quiet Becoming', by :zoviet*france:, Resonance 104.4 FM in London and http:// resonancefm.com/ 17.09.2016
Ars Electronica 2016 'Radical Atoms and the Alchemists of our Time', 08.-12.9.2016
Holthoff-Mokross Galerie, 23.-24.07.2016
#DiMENSiONS #6 PREMIERE by @LaimaPersik, on #RKC http://rkc.noip.me , 04.06.2016
Heidersberger & Heidersberger, Galerie Culture Matters, Hannover, 06.2016
10th Music Tech Fest Berlin, 27.-30.5.2016, Funkhaus Berlin
Sankt-Johannes-Evangelist, Berlin, PPV 15.-16.05.2016
2015
Sankt-Johannes-Evangelist, Berlin, PPIV 24.-25.05.2015
Peter Elsner: Balance and Polarity, 04.-23.05.2015, Gallery Valssaamo, Helsinki
2014
Sankt-Johannes-Evangelist, Berlin, Pentatonic Permutations III (Pentecost Meditation) 08.-09.06.2014
"Fall 2014", video by Madeleine Altmann
2013
Sankt-Johannes-Evangelist, Berlin, Pentatonic Permutations II 20131219
2012
Sankt-Johannes-Evangelist, Berlin, Pentatonic Permutations 20121216
2011
A first software version of Pentatonic Permutation is programmed on a HP-200LX.
1984
A presentation of the SPRSG is planned for Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria.
1982
The Head Resonance Company develops the idea of the Solar Powered Random Sound Generator (SPRSG) to be detributed around the world as a sound sculpture. An 8080-microprocessor is programmed to play the sound.