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Raviv Ganchrow and Julia Kursell just edited an issue of the dutch architecture publication OASE.
Under the title Immersed, OASE 78 addresses questions around space and sound. This issue presents a reflection on the spatial aspects of sound alongside an examination of the transformative and temporal dimensions of space.

Authors: Jean-François Augoyard, Barry Blesser, & Linda-Ruth Salter, Charles Curtis, Douglas Kahn, Brandon LaBelle, Armin Schaefer, Sven Sterken, Emily Thompson
Editors: Pnina Avidar, Raviv Ganchrow, Julia Kursell

Selected conference recordings (1.-5.juli 2008) can be found here. Recordings of the Preview Symposiums (26.1. 2008) here.

interview with carsten stabenow for the italian magazine digicult about tuned city and the history of the festival, about soundart and social aspects of artistic work in general.

an english version of this interview can be found here.

12 october, TUNED CITY is invited with a project presentation to the dis-patch festival in Belgrade

6 september, TUNED CITY is invited to the full pull festival in Malmö. (Projectpresentation, discussion, performances by Mark Bain and Julien Clauss.

In a period in which festivals-showrooms that are similar to each other are increasing in a more and more alarming way, the organisers of Tuned City decided to go in the exactly opposite direction: instead of choosing a bombastic approach, linked to the concept of “leisure”, they opted for the construction of a route of research and reflection lasting five days, during which the public will be encouraged to ask themselves a series of questions about the sound worlds in which they live and about the relationship between these sounds and the urban space that surrounds them every day.

Read the interview with Derek Holzer at digimag.

A first photo documentation is online: http://www.flickr.com/groups/tunedcity/
with contributions by: Pablo Sanz, somaya, Will Schrimshaw, Randy Yau …

arte reports about tuned city 2008 in Berlin.

Sounds belong to the City. They determine spaces and identities. For years, artists have been using city noises as a material to stage or to question urban space – new
territory, however, for most architects and planners within the routines of functional planning procedures. Tuned City – Between Sound- and Space Speculation searches for a new evaluation of architectural spaces from the perspective of acoustics. This volume
presents various positions of architects, artists and theorists to expand the architectural discourse with the dimension of listening.

With contributions by: Anne Kockelkorn und Doris Kleilein, Barry Blesser und Linda-Ruth Salter, Gisela Herzog und Gerhard Steinke, Susanne Hauser, Thomas Ankersmit, Pascal Amphoux und Grégoire Chelkoff, Raviv Ganchrow, Mark Bain, Arno Brandlhuber und Markus Emde, Michael Bull, Stefan Kölsch, Jacob Kirkegaard

Tuned City – between sound- and space speculation
Edited by Anne Kockelkorn, Doris Kleilein, Gesine Pagels und Carsten Stabenow
200 Seiten, german/english, with Illustrations by Andreas Töpfer

EUR(D) 25,00 / EUR(A) 25,70
ISBN 978-3-937445-36-6
KOOK BOOKS 2008

Project Presentation Tuned City at SOUND CONSTRUCTIONS

What are the intersections of sonic resonance and physical structures, how are artists exploring and interpreting this constantly shifting field, andwhere is it all going?

Last weekend, 8/9th March, at PROGRAMM Berlin a 2-day event exploring the convergence of sound, place and architecture, present and future took place – SOUND CONSTRUCTIONS. Jodi Rose, Australian sound artist and artist-in-resedence in Berlin, had invited several artists and projects to introduce their work, among the participants: Hans Appelqvist, Leif E. Boman, Kim Cascone, Rob Curgenven, Peter Cusack, Derek Holzer, Ernst Karel, Jacob Kirkegaard, Brandon LaBelle, Eric La Casa, Momus, Seiji Morimoto, Udo Noll, Jodi Rose, Rowena Easton & Mike Blow, Henry Stag, Carsten Stabenow (Tuned City), Aaron Ximm.

http://www.programonline.de/soundconstructions.html

After the successful first round the complete audio documentation of the tuned city preview symposium (26th january) is online now.

A first photo documentation of the preview symposium and the performance programme made by pablosanz.

As there is a lot of interest and only limited seating for the preview symposium on the 26th of January at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, we recommend to make a ticket reservation. Please send us an e-mail tickets@tunedcity.de

On the 26th/27th of January the project Tuned City will be introduced as part of clubtransmediale 2008.

For the preview symposium on the 26th of January at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, lectures and presentations introduce the different aspects of the topic and outline the key points of the planned conference. Invited artists and projects present themselves and their working methods: the pioneer of sound art Max Neuhaus, the philosopher Prof. Dr. Gernot Böhme, the urban sociologist Prof. Dr. Detlev Ipsen, the architectural theorist Prof. Dr. Ulrich Winko, the sound artist and writer Brandon LaBelle, the artist Mark Bain, the musician Nik Hummer a. o.

On the 27th of January, a night at the Maria am Ostbahnhof illustrates the different musical and performative modes of using and adopting the space of the club, from microacoustic mappings to subsonic deconstructions. Artists and musicians from across the sound art spectrum are invited for this performance programme: Dallas Simpson, BJNilsen and Hildur Gudnadottier, Daniel Menche and Mark Bain.