Horizontaler Gentransfer

In the organizer's words:

Horizontal Gene Transfer

After getting their kickstart as an ambitious art project at Stuttgart's State Academy of Fine Arts, Horizontaler Gentransfer (HGT) quickly became a sensation: six female artists with a migrant background who combine germanPunk and K-Pop in their songs, building culturalbridges through their pointed lyrics: "Empowerment Karaoke", as the group calls it. There are songs about being foreigners in the most bureaucratic city in Germany: Stuttgart. Songs with diverse subjects as racism, the Swabian staple butter pretzels - are combining quotes from fine art or literature - such as the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. In concerts they try to establish the whole package of Punk as a total artwork - moderations, video animations, self made costumes: "The aim of the HGT is to make people dizzy and nobody knows what's going on.

HGT's upcoming second album, "Everything Possibbong", will be out on Treibender Teppich Records in 2025. This experiment merges BBong (Korean Schlager) with a whole host of other genres. The background of BBong is German, Spanish, and Korean. Due to colonial history, popular ditties from these countries have a comparable melodic structure and, hence, sound very similar. HGT follows the stories of the songs and explores the collective memory through music.