13th Cologne’s Ambient Festival .

The thirteenth edition of Cologne’s Ambient festival kicks off on Thursday 9 September. Founded in 2005, the four-day festival of ambient and contemporary music takes place in the Romanesque basilica of the Holy Apostles, which this year celebrates the thousandth anniversary of the laying of its foundation stone. To commemorate the event, this year’s programme includes a mass for the apostles on Sunday, composed by the Ukrainian-born Canadian Lubomyr Melnyk, together with the priest Christoph Biskupek, co-founder of the festival, who will celebrate the Catholic mass.

Among the thirty composers taking part in this year’s festival, three composers will be premiering their works at the festival: the Germans Philllip Schulze and Marcus Schmickler and the American Alvin Lucier, who will premiere his work 16:40, which will be performed by the Ever Present Orchestra every evening, in synchrony with a light installation created especially for the Holy Apostles Church.