The Centre for intercultural music /youth-world-music-orchestra/ is located in the city of Kassel. It arranges and performs “music of the cultures – mainly in the region of Hesse but increasingly also on national level and also internationally.

Ulli Götte, the founder, composer and director of the centre is a Professor for Musicology and started his pathway from classical and Jazz music before he discovered his love and admiration for Minimal Music (Steve Reich) and its origins in African and Asian Music.

The youth-world-music-orchestra consists of 20-30 young artists who live and study Music in Kassel. The orchestra has been performing 3-5 concerts per year.

Ulli Götte’s work and the centre for intercultural music is closely connected to Minimal Music which – like any other music offers great opportunities for integration and the connection of also rather untrained people (especially youth and children) not only to play, but also to compose music.

In this connection Ulli and his team of approximately 5 musicians is regularly working with schools, universities, conservatories and is driving force of the Network of European Minimal Music Organisations (NEMO).