Category: projekte

mit Carlo Cubero, John Grzinich, Patrick McGinley (Tallinn/Moste, EE)
Januar – Juli 2011 (fortlaufend)

www.tallinnsoundmap.com

Detailierte Beschreibung des Workshops auf Englisch >>>.

mobile urban noise transformation
by Jürgen Lehmeier & René Rissland (eyland 07) und Florian Tuercke
July 8th / 9th / 10th – around the conference location

Around the daily conference locations and across the city of Tallinn, René Rissland, Jürgen Lehmeier and Florian Tuercke will present the 12-tone filter´s capability to transform heavy urban noises into tuned sounds. The performances aim at changing the listeners´ perception of the given sonic sourrounding and adding a new quality to the experiance of hearing strong everyday sounds such as street traffic and city noise.

For further information please see 12-tone filter installation >>>

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Carsten Seiffarth (*1963) is a Berlin based musicologist. He is founder and artistic director of the sound art gallery singuhr – hoergalerie and one of the artistic directors of the media art laboratory TESLA Berlin. As an independant curator and producer he internationally initiates and produces exhibitions and projects within the context of sound art.

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bonn hoeren – »a hearing perspective« / 10.07.11

presentation by Mads Bech Paluszewski and workshop participants
July 10th – 17:30 / public space
meetingpoint @ MÄRZ project space

Within the framework of Tuned City Tallinn, artist and independent cultural producer Mads Bech Paluszewski presents his workshop on Tactile Acoustic Interventionism. Participants are invited to produce a series of ad hoc sound installations using the physical and tactile aspects of acoustics to adapt the everyday objects and structures in our urban sourroundings. The results will be presented to the public at the end of the workshop.

For further information please see Tuning the City workshop >>>

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08.07.2011 16:00

performance by Aernoudt Jacobs
Patarei Prison Fortress / Suur-Patarei, Kalaranna 2 map >>>
July 8th – 16:00-16:30
imited places – registration required, see below!

Our spatial awareness is dependant of only a fraction of a second of a sound reflected in our environment. This intuitive information is quite rudimentary when we navigate our environment and we are mostly unaccustomed to use it consciously and or adequately. Some animals, however, use it as their main navigation system. They ’see‘ with their ears. The skill has been first discovered in the mideighteenth century. The term echolocation was introduced much later in the mid-twentieth century.

The Echolocator was first develloped for a site-specific installation at the Wasserspeicher for Singuhr Hörgalerie in Berlin. The idea for this installation is based on the concept that sound can be used for investigating acoustic and architectural properties. Sound can be be used as a cue for location, with sound we could be able to ‘see’ acoustic and architectural shapes. For this installation, a device that is a kind of sound space investigator – the Echolocator – was developed. The Echolocator incorporates a sound device, a laser beam, a communicating tracking device and a small screen that maps the space. It can emit short sounds, those used by animals for echolocation. There are in total a dozen of those devices. With the Echolocator spectators are able to explore the acoustic and architectural properties of a given space with sound. This tool triggers our sonic perception and helps in understanding how sound and space correlates.

The Performance
The device has been further refined to be able to use it also as a performance instrument. The performance is centred around the idea of moving and sensing into acoustic qualities of the space. It is based on the same sonic principles as described before. A space is divided in several acoustic zones and acoustic obstacles. Each zone has an assigned sound. Upon entering a zone the sound of the Echolocator will switch to the assigned sound. The obstacles have different materials, forms and micro-spaces. These obstacles will changes acoustic properties of the sounds. For example by using different materials (absorbing vs reflecting materials) and shapes (tubes vs open spaces) sound qualities will slightly differ. Each Echolocator has its own sound. The Echolocators also react with each other, when they all are close to each other they all sound the same. The installation/performance happens preferably in a completely darkened space to maximize the perceptual awareness of the senses.

The audience is placed inside the performative space. Between 5 to 10 performers are asked to scan and listen to the space with the Echolocator. The score consists of specific instructions which divide the whole performance in smaller micro-events and actions that relates to a ‘critical’ listening of the performer.

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site-specific sound walk project by Maksims Shentelevs
July 8th – 10th 2011 – daily 15:00 – 18:00
meetingpoint @ Balti Jaam market entrance map >>>

A marketplace is a space of diversity.
Colors, shapes, smells, emotions and noises.
Standing in lines or fallen in piles.
Organized or messy.
All come in focus.
All sound out.

In all parts of the world and in all ages marketplaces have been and are socially, functionally and culturally mixed context locations of vital significance for societies and cityscapes. Even if sometimes recognized as ugly, marketplaces are the true expression of nations, as the best and the worst qualities of all social groups forming a nation, express themselves and face each other in one concentrated spot. There the rich meets the poor, the fency town dweller meets the peasant, thiefs meet the fair, local meets foreign and regular meets outstanding. A marketplace is a place to showoff and exchange – a place where one can really tell what things are about.
What happens if we mix it even more – if the sound of one marketplace is transferred to the location of an other and vice versa? Do we get confused? Or can we perceive the context of location even more clearly?

The sound walk project Turgophonia by Maksims Shentelevs offers a daily headphone walk across Baltijaama Turg market. The public is invited to explore the market while listening to field recordings from other market places around the world gathered by Shentelevs over the last 8 years. The resulting comperative shift of perception will reveal the character of both overlayed spaces – one experienced by one’s own presence, the other one by the sense of hearing.

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a workshop on Tactile Acoustic Interventionism
mit Mads Bech Paluszewski (Copenhagen, DK)
5-10 Juli 2011 (während des Events), kostenlos 

Beginn 5. Juli 12:00 @ Ptarmigan – bitte anmelden!

The goal of this workshop is to produce a series of ad hoc sound installations through investigating, experimenting, learning and performing with the acoustic possibilities of a city.
The method is basically to experiment with what Mads Bech Paluszewski calls the Tactile-Acoustic Interventionist approach. This means, to use the physical and tactile aspects of acoustics to adapt the everyday objects and structures in our urban surroundings. From day to day, the participants will locate different sites of interest in Tallin and intervene with these locations by testing their acoustic nature and adding acoustic energy to the objects and structures of the given location.

Essential to perform this workshop is an especially developed Tactile Acoustic Interventionist System, that relies on the principles of transduction, ie. the conversion of energy from one form to another. At the core of the Tactile Acoustic Interventionist System are certain speaker driver units called audio transducers. Their function can be described as a speaker magnet seperated from its cone and cabinet – especially designed for flexible attachment and optimal transmission of vibrational energy to any given material attached upon.
In this workshop participants will use transduction to set in vibration any object or structures of choice in order to produce sounding units. For exercises Paluszewski will provide a library of prepared sound material, but participants are also invited to bring in their own material.

Due to the experimental and discovering nature of the workshop, the sessions will  have an open structure. The results rely on the findings and the ideas  developed throughout the workshop. The finishing goal is the demonstration of the workshop results at end of day 6 (july 10th).

Townscape / Drainscape – research for sonic potentials
by Jürgen Lehmeier & René Rissland (eyland 07) und Florian Tuercke
July 8th / 9th / 10th – rentalpoint @MÄRZ project space

In the eyes of Western Europeans, the drainscape of Tallinn´s Old Town seems very distinct. The drainpipes have double diameters compared to Western ones. There are round shaped pipes next to rectangular pipes, some with decorations, others clean and functional. Another aspect is that the discharge vents of the tubes go directly on the street rather than underground leaving open tubes scattered all over the Old Town. An agglomeration of open resonant pipes tuned by the height of the buildings like a set of instruments inscribed in the topography of the city. A two-storey house tunes it in higher tonality than a four-storey house. So it´s an open source for experimental listening and analysing. The Old Town as “big organ”. How is it tuned … how does it sound?

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08.07.2011 17:30
performance by Els Viaene
Urban Wasteland near Cultural Mile / Suur-Patarei, sea side map >>>

Airstream is an open-air sound performance which aims at creating an aural layer to the visual components of its surroundings. The sounds produced are a combination of on location recordings and digital processed sounds, mixed in real time. Therewith the artist creates a live soundtrack without imitating nor purely opposing to the scenery – a symbiosis of the amplified and the natural sounds.
Through the specific use and set-up of sound within a space, Viaene creates new spaces within existing ones, either emphasizing or making disappear the physical borders of the space.

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Tuned City Tallinn / site-specific projects

performance by Julien Clauss, Pom Bouvier B. and Fabien Artal
July 9th to 10th – 1:00 / July 10th – 17:00
@Vabaduse Väljak (Freedome Square)

Toposone is an outdoor sound performance designed for open sites in the countryside or in an urban city center. A sound field is created by 3 mobile performers, who are composing as they are moving and carrying a portable devices. Those devices make a tri-phonic long range sound system which allows the 3 performers to shape the sound area in real time.

Toposone is a succession of ephemeral sound sculptures. It’s purpose is to build a complex and kinetic sound field which is continuously renewed and in resonance with the environment. With their movements and synthesis manipulations the 3 performers compose and design the sound field. They play with distances and create unusual site specific-listening perspectives.

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site-specific performance and installation by Florian Tuercke
July 5th 11:00 public space (will be announced soon!)

In this performance, Florian Tuercke examines public space in terms of its musical and compositional potential. For this purpose, special instruments have been designed which capture and transform the sounds of public space, creating Urban Audio music composed by all participants of the underlying noise situation.

For further information please see Urban Audio ECoC1 Installation >>>

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site-specific performance by Thomas Ankersmit

July 8th 2011 – 18:00 @ Linnahall, meetingpoint Linnahall stairs map >>>
limited places – registration required, see below!

July 10th – 16:00 @Cromatico sculpture map >>>
no registration required

Within the world of acoustic instruments, the saxophone remains unique in that it is both extremely directional and very close in timbre to the human voice. As an autodidact saxophonist, Thomas Ankersmit has learned to augment these characteristics with his own microtonal sound-palette. Adapting the possibilities of his instrument to the conditions of the respective sites–the Soviet-era Linnahall lobby and Lukas Kühne’s Cromatico sculpture in the Song Festival Grounds–Ankersmit aims at making the listeners aware of the space around them and unlocking its sonic peculiarities.

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performance by Pierre-Laurent Cassière
Improvisation for parabolic microphone and speaker – urban soundscape bending
July 8th / 9th / 10th – ca. 16:00-17:00 between Tornide Väljak and Raekoja plats

Equipped with a highly directional parabolic microphone plugged to a speaker, the performer manipulates acoustic fields by moving sounds artificially. Improvising a walk through Tallinn, he reveals vibratory details of the physical environment to the audience and modifies their perception of sonic space. For a few seconds, the performer’s body becomes an acoustic interface whose position and motion determinates new relationships in the organisation of sonic environment. (Coproduction SMAK & Vooruit, Gent, Belgium)

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04.-07. July 2011 – warm up / fringe

Tuned City Tallinn beginnt mit einem ‚aufwärm- und fringe Programm‘ (04.-07. Juli). Während dieser Zeit werden die angebotenen Workshops sattfinden, temporäre und permanente Installationen im öffentlichen Raum zu besichtigen sein sowie diverse Audio-Walks und Touren angeboten. Der MÄRZ-Projektraum und Ptarmigan werden als soziale Hubs etabliert – ein zentraler Informations- und Treffpunkt, für diverse Aktivitäten eingerichtet. Ein fringe-Programm gibt Möglichkeit zu Projektpräsentationen, Screenings und kurzen Performances. Das detailierte Programm wird hier in Kürze annonciert.

07. Juli 2011 / 20:00h – Eröffnung

Tuned City Tallin wird offiziell eröffnet am Abend des 7. Juli mit einer allgemeinen thematischen Einführung und einer herausragenden Aufführung von Eliane Radigues Naldjorlak gespielt von dem Ausnahmechellisten Charles Curtis (US) @ Hobuveski (Horse Mill Theater), Lai 23,  Tallinn map >>>

08.-10. Juli 2011
Der Zeiplan der folgenden Tage strukturiert sich wie folgt:

11:00-15:00 Uhr
Konferenz -und Vortragsprogramm an täglich wechselnden Orten locations – eine architekturhistorische Reise, von der mittelatlerlichen Altstadt, zu den Überresten der Industrialisierung des letzten Jahrhunderts, den architectonischen Utopien der Sowjet-Zeit der 70er und 80er Jahre bis in das Jetzt der zeitgenössischen Architektur in Tallinn.

15:00-19:00 Uhr
site specific Programm

18:30-20:30h Uhr
Abendessen (für Performer, Redner und Team) @Telliskivi Loomelinnak, Telliskivi 60A map >>>

21:00h Uhr
Abend Performances an unterschiedlichen Orten

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Im Folgenden finden Sie das gesamte Programm als pdf: Tuned City Tallinn program.pdf

http://www.tunedcity.net/tc_2011.pdf

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4.–7. juulini – eelsoojendus

Juulikuu põhisündmus hakkab eelsoojendusfaasiga. Sel ajal toimuvad mõned workshop’id, üleval on ajutised ja püsiinstallatsioonid kogu linnas, siseruumides ja väljas, saab registeeruda ja osaleda audioekskursioonidel ja -jalutuskäikudel.
Tuned City tegevuse keskpunktiks olevast MÄRZi projektiruumist ja Ptarmiganist kujundatakse festivali sotsiaalne kese, kus on infolett, kohtumispaik, mitmete audioekskursioonide ja -jalutuskäikude alguspaik, samuti õhtuprogrammi toimumispaik, mis annab võimaluse esitleda projekte pecha kucha stiilis sessioonidel lühikeste esinemistena. See vorm võimaldab teadlastel ja erialainimestel tutvustada oma projekte ja suhelda väljaspool ajalimiidiga piiratud konverentsivormi. Peagi jõuab üles ka täpsem programm!

7. juuli / 20:00h – Avamine

Tuned City intensiivsemad ettevõtmised saavad alguse 7. juuli õhtul, üldise sissejuhatusega teemasse ja sündmustesse ning väga erilise performance’iga „Naldjorlak” (kompositsiooni autor Eliane Radigue), mille esitab tšellist Charles Curtis (US) Hobuveski teatris (Lai tn 23, Tallinn).
kaart >>>

08.–10. juulini
Kolm päeva on jagatud järgmiselt:

kl 11:00–15:00
Konverents ja loenguprogramm iga päev eri kohtades, hõlmates arhitektuurilis-ajaloolist retke, mis algab 14. sajandi vanalinnast, liigub üle maastike, mis on jäänud järele eelmise sajandi tööstuslikust arengust ning nõukogude aja 1970. ja 1980. aastate arhitektuurilistest utoopiatest ning lõppeb Siin ja praegu, nüüdisaegses Tallinnas.

kl 15:00–18:30
Kohaspetsiifiline programm – kõigil on võimalus kulgeda linnas ning koostada iseendale selleks meelepärane programm mitmesugustest jalutuskäikudest, performance’itest ja ekskursioonidest.

kl 18:30–20:30
Õhtusöögi aeg. (Esinejaile, TC meeskonnale ning vabatahtlikele Telliskivi Loomelinnakus, Telliskivi 60A.) kaart >>>

kl 21:00
Õhtused kontserdid iga päev eri kohas.

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Programm: Tuned City Tallinn.pdf

http://www.tunedcity.net/tunedcity_tallinn_ee.pdf

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mit Felicity Ford (UK) und Valeria Merlini (IT / D)
im Auftrag von framework radio, Patrick McGinley (US /EE)
07-10 Juli 2011 / täglich 4-8 Std.

kostenlos, 4-6 Teilnehmer
Beginn 07. Juli 12:00 @ Ptarmigan – bitte registrieren!

The workshop »framework radio – documentation and production« has two goals:
The production of a retrospective hour-long radio show to air as part of the framework:afield series of guest curated editions, and the production of a series of short on-the-spot creative documentary pieces to be presented to audiences at the beginning of each day of activities during the Tuned City festival. Participation includes a daily gathering of recordings and/or interviews from the Tuned City events, and the editing of them into an audio highlight sequence to be presented the following day.

»framework« began broadcasting in June, 2002 on the newly reformed resonance 104.4fm in London. The show now airs on 5 radio stations around the world, with more to follow soon, and streams and podcasts on it’s own website. »framework« is consecrated to field-recording and its use in composition, and began broadcasting at a time when a new community of sound artists with a special interest in found sound was developing, a community spread across the world that, thanks to the internet, was no longer limited to a specific geography. »framework« sees itself as an outlet for this ever-growing and developing community, a folk-tool in a new folk movement, a community driven exchange point for creators and listeners alike. »framework‘s« goal is to present not only the extremely diverse sound environments of our world, but also the extremely diverse work that is being produced by the artists who choose to use these environments as their sonic sources. We hope to ask this question: is ‘field-recording’ a style, or a genre, or is it in fact as uncontrollable and undefinable as any instrument or tool, that may be interpreted, manipulated, and appropriated by anyone with a microphone and an idea? These works are its definition, and not vice versa.

www.frameworkradio.net

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Tuned City Tallinn 4.-10. Juli 2011:

Kultuurikatel / Põhja puiestee 27
Kultuurikatel is an ongoing reconstruction project of an old Tallinn Power Plant complex, located close to Old Town & Passenger Harbour and part of a several mile long industrial belt along the coast line. The existing complex is under heritage protection and dates back to 1860s when Tallinn’s Gasworks was built there. Power production was shut down in 1979, and until the 1990th the plant was producing district heating. Andrei Tarkovski shoot parts of „Stalker“, his most famous film, here in 1979 and influenced with the morbid charm of the ‚Zone‘ our space esthetics till today.
map >>>

Väike-Õismäe / (ideal city) haabersti linnaosa valitsus Õismäe Tee 130
Designed by the architects Malle Meelak und Mart Port and built between 1973 and 1984, Väike-Õismäe was planned in the tradition of the ‚ideal city‘. With concentric rings of five- to nine-story buildings totalling one kilometer in diamter, the protected inner ring is green and incorporates an artificial lake, kindergardens, school-buildings and social facilities. The traffic infrastructure is almost completly banned to the outer rings. A steady walk from the outer ring through the building corridors into the inner ring will reveal a gradual decrease in urban noise levels. On a quiet day, it is said, one can hear the reflection of his or her voice off a building on the other side of the lake in the center of the complex.
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Kumu / Weizenbergi 34 / Valge 1
The 1994 competition for the new building of the Art Museum of Estonia was the greatest event of  the early 1990’s Estonian architectural scene. Participants from ten countries contributed 233 designs, but all the prizes were awarded to Finnish architects. The winning entry „Circulos“ was designed by Pekka Vapaavuori – a young architect from Tampere. „Circulos“ centers around a great arch that determines all the major circuits of movement inside the building. Kumu was cut into the limestone ground of a hill and is almost invisible. The building was completed in 2005.
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Hobuveski (Horse Mill Theater) / Lai 23
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Niguliste Church / Niguliste 3
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Rotermann warehouse / Nisu-Rukkijahu veski, Rotermanni 6
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Linnahall / Mere pst. 20
map >>>

Sea Plane Hangars / 15A Küti Street
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Lauluväljak – Song Festival Grounds / Narva mnt. 95 (cromatico Installation)
map >>>

Teleskivi / Telliskivi 60A
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Ptarmigan / Toom-Kooli 13
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MÄRZ project space / Olevimägi 7
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Patarei Prison Fortress / Suur-Patarei, Kalaranna 2
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Urban Wasteland near Cultural Mile / Suur-Patarei, sea side
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Baltijam Turg / Kopli Street
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Freedomaquare / Vabaduse väljak
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Toompark
map >>>

mit René Rissland und Jürgen Lehmeier / eyland 07 (Nürnberg, D)
4-10 2011 Juli (during the event), kostenlos

Beginn 4. Juli 12:00 @ Ptarmigan – bitte anmelden!

This workshop proposes fieldwork and interventions with the 12-tone filter – a multifunctional sonic filter for transforming unpleasent everyday sounds as street traffic and city noise into a new experience of hearing. The workshop introduces into the experimenting with tuned tubes and basic acoustic principles.

For further information please see
12-tone filter installation >>>

mit Unsworn Industies (Stockholm, SE)
4+5 Juli 2011 / kostenlos

Beginn 4. Juli 12:00 @Ptarmigan – bitte anmelden!

This workshop held by Nicklas Marelius, Erik Sandelin and Magnus Torstensson (Unsworn Industries) is about testing and location finding for the Metaphones project – a service that allows people to conduct phone calls through the air of a third location.

For further information please see
Methaphones Installation >>>

04.-10.07. 2011, daily 15:00 – 19:00

To properly explore the sonic effects possible within the cityscape, it is often necessary to move beyond the traditional model of the seated conference- or performance-audience. The organizers of Tuned City have a long history of mixing up and even breaking the typical event format. For Tallinn 2011, we aspire to present a selection of innovative and fresh sound experiences across several specially-selected locations in the city.

Taking place each afternoon, the site-specific Projects are a modular series of parallel programs featuring soundwalks, performances, installations and interventions. These projects involve the audience in a new way of experiencing sound and space through the use of sculptural, graphical, musical and sonic means.

Some of the projects are designed for a small group of people, keeping the experience of the project both participatory and intimate. Such projects may be offered several times during the Tuned City event. Other projects may only be offered once within the context of the conference program, and some may require registration to keep the audience within a certain size. Please check the project descriptions below for more information.

Urban Audio ECoC1
public space in terms of its musical and compositional potential
by Florian Tuercke (D)
July 5th – 11:00 / public space

Echolocator
performance – sound as a cue for location
by Aernoudt Jacobs (Brussels, BE)
July 8th – 16:00-16:30 @Patarei
limited places, please register early!

Airstream
performance – real time mixing of natural and amplified sounds
by Els Viaene (Brussels, BE)
July 8th – 17:00-17:30 @Kultuuri Kilometer

Transphere
performance – urban soundscape bending
by Pierre-Laurent Cassière (F)
July 8th / 9th / 10th – ca. 16:00-17:00 between Tornide Väljak and Raekoja plats

sonic peculiarities of sites
site-specific saxophone performances
by Thomas Ankersmit (NL/D)
July 8th – 18:00 @Linnahall / July 10th – 16:00 @Cromatico sculpture
limited places, please register early!

Turgophonia
headphone walk on Balti Jaam market
by Maksims Shentelevs (Riga, LTV)
July 8th / 9th / 10th – meetingpoint @Baltijam Turg entrance

Toposone
mobile sound performance system
by Julien Clauss (F), Pom Bouvier B. and Fabien Artal
July 9th to 10th – 1:00 / July 10th – 17:00 @Vabaduse Väljak (Freedome Square)

sonic Drainscape of Tallinn
Townscape / Drainscape – research for sonic potentials
by eyland 07 (René Rissland, Jürgen Lehmeier) und Florian Tuercke (Nürnberg, D)
July 8th / 9th / 10th – rentalpoint @MÄRZ project space

12-tone filter
mobile urban noise tranformation
by eyland 07 (René Rissland, Jürgen Lehmeier) and Florian Tuercke (Nürnberg, D)
July 8th / 9th / 10th – around the conference location
time and site to be announced!

Seaplane Hangars
tour through the Hangars
9th + 10th – 16:00 @Hangars
please register!

Inside Linnahall
tour through Linnahall
July 9th + 10th – 17:00 @Linnahall stairs
please register!

Tuning the City
tactile acoustic interventionism
by Mads Bech Paluszewski (Copenhagen, DK) and workshop participants
July 10th – 17:30 / public space
meetingpoint @MÄRZ project space

City Sounds Concerts
strolling into the sounds of Tallinn
guided tours by Ici-Même (Grenoble, F) and workshop participants
July 4th to 7th – 11:00 / 15:00 / 18:00
July 8th + 9th – 9:00 / 16:00 / 19:00
individual tours, please register early!

Sound Map of Tallin
a guide to the city of Tallinn from an auditory perspective
by Sound Map Tallinn group (Tallinn, EST)
distribution @MÄRZ project space , Ptarmigan, City Center

mobile miniatures
mobile soundwalks – sonic explorations around Balti Jaam area
by Udo Noll (D) and workshop participants
continuous – via mobile internet devices