Nympholepsy is inspired by the immediate environment and history of ancient Messene and was premiered on June 3, 2018 at Tuned City. The CD was released December 21, 2019.
Terra Ignota
We are working on a new long term artistic research and residency project in the southernmost inhabited region of the planet – Chilean Antarctica, Magallanes, Tierra del Fuego and Última Esperanza.
More info: http://terra-ignota.net
sonic explorers
6 young European sound artists will go for one month on project- and research resindcies to Theran/Iran, Dakar/Senegal and Valparaiso/Chile (2 to each place) to work there together as a group with 2 young local artists and a local mentor. These groups will explore the cities from the position of listening. How do cities sound today? How different is listening in other cultures? In the focus of the project lays the artistic examination of urban phenomena from the sonic perspective, their interpretation and transformation with multiple artistic methods.
Pankow soundwalks
Peter Cusack, Udo Noll, Martyna Poznanska, katrinem and Sam Auinger have created 5 different soundwalks in the Berlin district of Pankow to take place in April, May and June 2019. You are invited to join the artists on the walks and explore Pankow’s unique sonic worlds. What is heard will be discussed en route and afterwards. Some walks are intended for small groups so will be repeated on several occasions.
sonotopia – the sonic explorers
A residency project in Valparaiso/Chile, Dakar/Senegal, Tehran/Iran and Bonn/Germany by bonn hoeren in the frame of Beethoven’s 250th birthday year
To open up the world for one’s self or to open up one’s self to the world – both processes commence with listening. Our perception of the world “out there” begins with listening, long before we are born. The act of listening is the foundation for every type of communication and social interaction. Both of the latter have to be learned.
In stereophony, as natural a reproduction of reality as possible is created through the spatial shifting of two sound sources. sonotopia – the sonic explorers interprets this shift in perspective metaphorically.
6 young sound artist (former sonotopia prize winners) will undertake a project and research residency in one of the partner cities in 2019. In each city two local artist and a local mentor will join. In 2020 all groups will come together in Bonn, mirroring the process and work towards a final exhibition.
More info soon – stay tuned!
Connecting Resonances I: Beirut
Sound, listening and sonic practices across sites, borders and cultures
Workshop and Seminar at the American University of Beirut, in collaboration with the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design at the University of Bergen (Bergen Academy of Art and Design), Norway; Tuned City, Berlin; Neighborhood Initiatives (AUB); and The Center for Arts and Humanities (CAH).
Ruins & Beginnings: The Dom – ino Sessions
During Tuned City – Messene (2018), architects Christian Espinoza and René Rissland established an experimental structure based on Le Corbusier’s Dom-ino House as part of their research during the festival. The structure is comprised of the concrete framing of an unfinished house. Espinoza and Rissland generously invited people to use it as they imagined. Lanterner (Steve Bates and Marc-Alexandre Reinhardt) proposed a series of live improvisations with the other artists who have participated here.
https://thedimcoast.bandcamp.com/album/ruins-beginnings-the-dom-ino-sessions
Space, Sound and the Improvisatory
presenting Tuned City Messene at this conference at the OCC in Athens, 19-21 Oct. 2018
Program info: http://www.sgt.gr/eng/SPG2172/
Documentation by Marc-Alexandre Reinhard
Marc-Alexandre Reinhard put an extensive documentation of his project Act as Fate Wills, Destruction Comes online. One hundred micro interventions were performed in the ruins of the Temple of Zeus on Mount Ithomatas and at various locations on the archeological site of Ancient Messene. Please have a look at https://entopias.tumblr.com
TC Messene – program book
You can see the program book here >>>
TC Messene first impressions
Please have a look at the Tuned City Messene image-pool
Mario de Vega – FALL installation documentation
Performative installation programmed to operate 24 continuous hours. Within this time frame, an algorithm modulates amplitude and increase resonant qualities of 16 channels of white noise. 2 surfaces of 310x230cm were designed and installed in relation to the architecture of the exhibition space. The surfaces rotate independently in a fixed angle, acting as passive filters.
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TC Messene 2018 – learn more
Tuned City’s previous milestones Berlin 2008, Tallinn 2011, and Brussels 2013 used to take place in central European metropolises. This year, Tuned City visits Ancient Messene June 1st – 3rd and seeks out the exemplary ‘ideal city’, the ancient Greek polis. See details >>>
Mario de Vega – Spiegelung
Bavarian Goasslschnalzer (traditional whip crackers), large moving mirrors, massive amounts of water – preview of Tuned City 2018 with a new commissioned work by Mario de Vega in the famous Wasserspeicher Berlin (former historic cisterns). Chapter 2 will premiere in Ancient Messene, June 1st – 3rd 2018. Continue Reading “Mario de Vega – Spiegelung”
SAVE THE DATE! – TUNED CITY – LISTENING POLITICS
May 31st – June 3rd 2018 – Tuned City, Ancient Messene.
The urban landscape of Messene was constructed in the Early Hellenistic era, according to certain architectural and town-planning principles of spatial organization, which reflected the political and social values of the period applied to the demands of this programmatic city founded by the Thebans in 369 B.C. on the south slopes of mount Ithome. The city was famous for its mighty fortification walls, the monumentality of its public buildings and the Hippodamian town-plan. Continue Reading “SAVE THE DATE! – TUNED CITY – LISTENING POLITICS”
Acts of Listening @ Tsonami
Acts of Listening part one @ Festival Tsonami, Valparaiso/Chile – have a look at our photo-documentation and our blog.