Category: projects

Lukas Kühne is a German sculptor, he lives in Montevideo, Uruguay. His works have often interdisciplinary contents and been shown in Europe, Iceland, Japan, North and South America. His current work is dedicated to spatial and acoustically impacts. There to mention is CROMATICO in Tallinn, Estonia as well as TVISÖNGUR in Seydisfjördur, Iceland. Together with Robyn Schulkowsky, he developed monumental marimba-like sub bass, instruments. Furthermore is he since 2005 in charge of the interdisciplinary and experimental format ”Form and Sound”, which he also founded, that’s operating at the Faculty of Arts in Montevideo Uruguay.

http://www.lukaskuehne.com/

appearance at Tuned City
Brussels / Space and Frequency – Rhythm Lab_Performance / 28. June 2013
Brussels / Space and Frequency – Rhythm Lab / 27–28. June 2013
Tallinn / pre-events
Tallinn / Cromatico installation

Dealing with sound and space has many implications. You can see that from the physical site and the way space is shaping sound and vice versa. You could also approch it from the social perspective. In every day life we are surrounded by the sounds of diverse nature and various origins. Sound has an immediate, direct link to both the rational and emotional parts of our brain. Sound shapes our thoughts, our feelings, our behaviors, our lives, sound is another cultural code, it’s about human presence in the world.
Artistic work in the field of sound could help a public understanding and appreciation of the importance of sound, bridge between disciplines as well as inspire curiosity. It is one of Tuned City’s central goals to commission and produce relevant works that embody such qualities.

Cromatico
Enter the Octave and Discover the World of Sound and Reverberation
Lukas Kühne (Montevideo, URG)

Torpedoes Out
megaphone, plastic pipe, electromagnetic sinewave generator, propeller
Raul Keller (EE)

12-ton filter
mobile urban noise tranformer
eyland 07 (René Rissland, Jürgen Lehmeier) und Florian Tuercke (Nürnberg, D)

Methaphones
communication via public space
Unsworn Industries (Malmö, SE)

Schizophone
acoustic prosthesis
Pierre-Laurent Cassière (F)

Urban Audio ECoC1
ambient sound transformer
Florian Tuercke (D)

more to come …

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festival director:
Carsten Stabenow

programme- and production team:
Raviv Ganchrow, John Grzinich, Derek Holzer, Sara Krines, Lukas Kühne, Patrick McGinley, Evelyn Müürsepp, Kaisa Paluoja, Carsten Stabenow

press:
Siiri Kolka / contact: siiri@moks.ee / +372 5330 6679

design:
Andreas Töpfer, milchhof
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Tuned City is part of the official program of the European Cultural Capital Tallinn 2011 and is co-produced with MoKs – center for art and social practice and is supported by the Tallinn 2011 Foundation, Estonian Cultural Endowment, Hasartmängumaksu Nõukogu, Eesti Vabariigi Kultuuriministeerium and Goethe-Institut Tallinn. In cooperation with The Estonian Academy of Arts, Kunshogskoleutdanninger i Norden KUNO and The Estonian Maritime Museeum.

with Derek Holzer (US/D)
and with Katrin Koov and her students at the Architecture Department of the Estonian Academy of Fine Arts
February 12-15  2011

This workshop focused on building up a critical vocabulary of tools, terms and concepts which the architecture students could use to address sound in their own future projects. Discussions focused on the kinds of “sonic effects” which can be experienced in the urban landscape and how these effects could be created, minimized, maximized, addressed or referenced by careful design and planning. Sound was to be considered neither as decoration to be added or problem to be removed but as an integral structural element to be considered in the same ways as other architectural elements such as light, mass, transparency etc. The first two days focused on the analysis of recordings made in various Tallinn spaces and sites, and on the last day students presented one-sheet architectural concepts which incorporated the terms discussed during the workshop.

with Derek Holzer (US/D)
and with students of Raivo Kelomees at the Media Art Department of EKA
January 17-21  2011

This workshop focused on building listening skills necessary to engage with sound in the urban context. The first day of the workshop was spent listening to a selection of field recordings from different locations around the world and analyzing what kind of information was communicated about the places they were recorded. The second and third days focused on recordings the participants made, using the same “blind listening” techniques to critique how well they communicated a sense of place. On the final day, students presented short compositions using the field recordings in an end-presentation.

with Andreas Töpfer, Carsten Stabenow (Berlin, D) and members of Soundmap-Group Tallinn
8-12 Participants / at MoKS – please register!
28 April – 2 Mai 2011

Conducted within the framework of the Sound Map of Tallinn project, this visualisation workshop focuses on the translation of collected research data into a visual language that reads as a map. This map, with its symbols, diagrams and text, must act as a guide to both the permanent inhabitant and the casual visitor, who will hear the city in a new way by tuning in and listening with open ears.

The workshop is directed towards people interested in sound, mapping and graphic design.

For further information please see Sound Map of Tallinn >>>

www.tallinnsoundmap.com

with Udo Noll (Berlin, D)
This workshop is free, 8-12 participants – please register!
April 18-22 2011 / 12:00 – 17:00 daily / @ Ptarmigan

about radio aporee
The project platform radio aporee has started around 1999/2000, based on former artistic research on mapping, spatial conditions and the means of navigation between the real and the virtual. It develops from the insight that it is basically impossible to map he complexity of todays public & private spaces. Against the background of an increasing awareness of spatial aspects in media and the popularity and presence of visual geographies (like google maps), the idea was to connect sound and space in flexible configurations, to create a sonic cartography which focusses solely on sound, and open it to the public as a collaborative project. Meanwhile, the project radio aporee ::: maps contains many thousands of recordings from numerous urban, rural and natural environments, showing the audible complexity of our living spaces, as well as the different perceptions and artistic perspectives related to sound, space and places.
In addition, the project invokes contemporary developments in mobile computing and socalled locative media which presume to be crucial to the way we experience our momentary daily life, where media and markets merge at the momentary location of our body, creating a mixed-reality space of social (inter)action. An important question directly addressed by radio aporee is how we might autonomously create and subsequently occupy these hybrid social spaces, against the functions and fictions of solely marketdriven forces.

workshop
The radio aporee workshop in Tallinn, April 2011, introduces the new project miniatures for mobiles, a platform for the creation of space-based audio works (see appendix for further information). The workshop consists of lectures about the conceptual and technical background, and practical exercises as well as sonic explorations within the Tallinn area.
The workshop aims to instruct participants in how to use the authoring tools provided by radio aporee, and ideally would result in an audible miniature for mobile media, to experience by listeners now and in future.

Lectures:
Introduction to radio aporee projects, backgrounds, perspectives and further development:
• soundmap: motivation, technology, samples & examples, howto
• sound and mobile media: augmented realities, technically enhanced perception (or: does our reality need subtitles?…)
• miniatures for mobiles: introduction to a platform for a different radio
• location based listening, soundscape narratives: ideas, concepts, possibilities
• recent projects & cooperation with Deutschlandradio Kultur Berlin
• tools & techniques, apps & maps
• development of an idea for a Tallinn miniature for mobiles

Practical part:
The active part of the workshop ideally focusses on the creation of a miniature in the Tallinn public city space. This needs a relatively clear idea of what the work to be done is about and where it should happen, since it involves many practical and conceptual aspects. (It would be helpful if participants could gather in advance of the workshop, e.g. by email, to identify points of interest, locations, etc.)

Schedule (flexible):
• day 1: introduction, lectures, development of the theme for a miniature for mobiles
• day 2: development of the miniature theme, site exploration, site specific sound recording
• day 3: site specific sound recording (e.g. field recordings, interviews, voice/narration)
• day 4: site specific sound recording, processing of recordings (editing, mixing, mapping, etc.), testing on site with mobile phones
• day 5: processing of recordings (editing, mixing, mapping, etc.), testing on site with mobile phones, discussion and presentation of results

apendix: aporee.pdf
miniatures for mobiles: aporee.org/mfm/
maps: aporee.org/maps/
stream: radio.aporee.org

As a great deal of our experience with the sonic effects of architecture and cityscapes is subjective, Tuned City has always focused on direct, participatory situations to explore these effects. Through a combined program of soundwalks, listening exercises, recording sessions, site-specific actions and soundmapping projects, the tuned city workshops have involved scores of people dedicated to examining and cataloging their own, unique sonic relationships with the city of tallinn.

Throughout the first half of 2011, members of the Tuned City team and MoKs worked together with students of the university of tallinn Anthropology Department, the Estonian Academy of Arts Architecture and new Media Departments and members of the general public. First and foremost, a printed sound Map of tallinn produced by the ut/MoKs group will be distributed throughout the city as well as form an important part of the event catalog. The results of the EKA workshops – a series of posters and sound recordings – can be seen and heard at MÄRZ project space during the tuned city event and the interactive miniatures for mobile media can be experienced by listeners now and in future in situ.

Some participatory workshops continue during the Tuned City event itself. In close collaboration with our partner ptarmigan (http://ptarmigan.ee), we are offering a series of workshops short before and during the event in july. Invited artists will each share their individual tools for listening to the city, and offer both a deeper insight into their artistic practice and a chance for the participants to become actively involved in the program of the event. And whether those tools be telephones, acoustic tubes, electronic transducers, radio waves or physical movement, the participants in these workshops will never hear the city the same way again.

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Workshops offered during the event

City Sounds Concerts / June 28 – July 3 2011
with Ici-Même (Grenoble, F)

Methaphones workshop / July 4 + 5 2011
with Unsworn Telecom (Stockholm, SE)

12-tone filter / July 4 – 10 2011
with eyland 07, René Rissland, Jürgen Lehmeier (Nürnberg, D)

Tuning the City / July 5 – 10 2011
with Mads Bech Paluszewski (Copenhagen, DK)

framework radio – documentation and production / July 7 – 10 2011
with Felicity Ford (UK) and Valeria Merlini (IT / D)
on behalf of Patrick McGinley, framework radio (US / EE)

Workshops offered beforehand

Sound Map of Tallinn / January – July 2011 (ongoing)
with Carlo Cubero, John Grzinich, Patrick McGinley (Tallinn/Moste, EE)

Listening / January 17-21 2011
with Derek Holzer (US/D) and students of the new media department of EKA

Sound in Landscape/ February 12-15 2011
with Derek Holzer (US/D) and students of Katrin Koov

Radio Miniatures – Radio Aporee / April 18-22 2011
with Udo Noll (Berlin, D)

Sound Map Visualisation (at MoKS) / April 28 – May 2 2011
with Andreas Töpfer, Carsten Stabenow (Berlin, D)

Form + Sound II / May 9-15
with Lukas Kühne (Montevideo, URG)

For further information on projects and workshops conducted within the framework of Tuned City Tallinn please see pre-events May 2010 >>>

16. April 2011 – Bau 3, former AEG, Nürnberg (map)

3:30 pm: Sam Auinger (A/D)
»a hearing perspective«

Sam Auinger will speak about the project ‘bonn hören’ and his past 20 years experience as city sound researcher and artist.

http://www.bonnhoeren.de
http://www.samauinger.de

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4 pm: Raviv Ganchrow (IL/NL)
Topophone: The role of recording technologies in auditory notions of place
sound + architecture – acoustic identity

The architect and sound artist Raviv Ganchrow will question what happens to the notion of ’space’ and ‘place’ when examined through a sonic lens. …

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17:45 pm: workshop presentations

The results of the workshops KlangQuelle – Revenant and Sound+Space Awareness are presented by the workshop leaders and participants.

Sound+Space Awareness
a acoustics workshop with Derek Holzer (US/D)
8-12 participants – please register!
(workshop language english)
11.-15.April 2011 dayly 12-17

Buildings, urban locations and architecture are traditionally described in visual terms, but it is our sense of hearing that assists us in experiencing and navigating through the spaces we inhabit. Sound is an essential part of social experience, and that should be of the utmost concern to architects, planners and artists alike, yet this is overlooked all too often. When the sound in a space is disruptive or dysfunctional, then the aesthetics, communications and perceptions in that space are likewise disrupted.

Therefore, the first step for anyone wishing to work with sound is learning how to listen. We will spend the first workshop day doing a series of listening exercises, using a collection of field recordings to tune the participants’ ears to the various sounds present in them, to think about what kind of information those sounds transmit and to reflect on the effects they have on the listener.

The following book will provide participants with a list of concepts useful for discussing urban sonic experience:

Jean Francois Augoyard: Sonic Experience–A Guide to Everyday Sounds
http://mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=1780

The second day will focus on fieldwork out in the city, using new listening exercises, digital recorders and the observations on the nature of sound from the previous day to experience the city with new ears.

On the third day, we will listen to the recordings gathered by the participants to see what they can tell us about the locations each person visited. And finally, on the fourth day, participants will develop and present a one-sheet concept for a project related to the sonic experience of the locations we have visited.

This workshop is directed towards sound interested laymen as well to architects and planners.

http://macumbista.net/?page_id=499

Klang-Quelle – Revenant – Architecture as Instrument
a listening and improvisation workshop with John Grzinich (US/EST)
8-12 participants – please register!
(workshop language english)
11.-15.April 2011 dayly 12-17

‘revenant’ is an ongoing collaborative project that focuses on site-specific acoustic sound actions. All sounds originate from materials found in-situ, and from interactions with the space itself.

The ‘revenant’ workshop concentrates on developing a language for connecting sound and space through non-verbal signals and physical actions. The workshop process is built on experimenting with group and spatial dynamics using a combination of participatory methods that range from listening exercises and improvisation games to simple rule based performances. Starting with the immaterial elements of our understanding of sound, space and perception, we then shift our attention toward the physicality of space and a subtle complexity material interactions.

The atmosphere during the workshop is open and informative, mixing collaborative game play and experimentation with discussion and practical realization. No previous knowledge is required. Participants from various disciplines are encouraged to participate. Past workshops have involved Students, Artists, Educators, Musicians, Anthropologists, Dancers, Media Professionals etc.

Locations: The first ‘introductory’ half of the workshop needs to be in a clean quiet space such as a gallery, classroom or theater stage, where participants will not be observed or interrupted. The second ‘intervention’ half of the workshop will use the empty unused building of the former Quelle headquarter (biggest mailorder in Germany) build by Ernst Neufert!

General program:

Day 1 (3-5 hours)
Sound and Perception
– listening exercises: sound, materiality and the imaginary
– listening exercises: space, perception and orientation
– warm-up exercises: simple objects
– closing discussion

Day 2 (3-5 hours)
Sound as Social Space
– exercises and games: improvisations and dynamics
– exercises and games: interactions with a space
– site work: scouting locations, simple interventions
– closing discussion

Day 3+4 (3-5 hours)
Sound on Site
– warm-up exercises: listening and awareness
– sketches and ideas: conceptualizing interventions
– ‘revenant’ actions
– closing discussion

Day 5 (3-5 hours)
public modul
– work with interested groups (school classes, students, etc.)

‘revenant’ workshop techniques have been used in a variety of other sound workshop contexts. For further examples see:
http://maaheli.ee/revenant/
http://maaheli.ee/main/sound-projects

Sonic Nomad Sofa – Workshop
a acoustic experimentation workshop with René Rissland + Jürgen Lehmeier (D)
4 hours – 4 stations
public, unlimited participants
14.+15. April 2011 – 12:00

This workshop is experimenting with mobile structures in public space.
The Sonic Nomad Sofa is placed in different acoustic environments.
– experiments with tuned tubes
– experimental research on acoustic basic principles

This workshop is directed towards sound interested laymen as well to architects and planners.

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Das Projekt Sonic Nomad Sofa wird ermöglicht durch die freundliche Unterstützung der Firmen REHAU und D&L:

A city-object by eyland 07, René Rissland + Jürgen Lehmeier (D)
acoustic consulting Prof. Sam Auinger (A/D)

Sonic sofa is a multifunctional object. It’s more than an urban furniture, it’s a transformer of urban sounds and an acoustic oasis. The best place for the sonic sofa is near sound polluted and highly frequented streets and other places of bad noise. But the object is not simply a noise barrier. Sonic sofa is an effective transformer of bad noise into good noise.
The cube is made of PVC drain pipes.  Pipes of different length convert the incoming noises and the listener inside the cube receives a new quality of hearing of urban sounds. The incoming noise reflects inside the tube and is changed by resonation.
Because of the different length of the pipes the volume of the cube is concave. People can sit inside and listen to the urban sounds.
The pipes can also be used as active instruments, windpipe instrument, sonic shelter or mono-concert hall. By rotating the object from one side to another it implicates different possibilities.

See also Workshop \’Sonic Nomad Sofa\’ – 15.04.2011 >>>

Derek Holzer, (1972) is an American sound artist living in Berlin, whose current interests include DIY analog electronics, sonic art, sound+architecture, field recording and the meeting points of electroacoustic, noise, improv and extreme music. He has played live experimental sound, as well as taught workshops in noise art technology, across Europe, North America, Brazil and New Zealand.

http://macumbista.net

appearance at Tuned City
Tuned City Nürnberg / 2011
Tuned City Tallinn – Listening workshop
Tuned City Tallinn – Sound in Landscape

Jürgen Lehmeier, architect, designer, born in Dillingen (Germany), lives and works in Nuremberg. He studied interior design and architecture at the Postgraduate Program for Architecture and Urban Research akademie c/o of the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nuremberg. In 2006 he founded the office Eyland 07 with René Rissland.

Eyland07 – the office’s field of interest focuses on the peripheral areas of architecture and city planning, often working in interdisciplinary teams together with artists, musicians, specialists for acoustic and sociologists. The relationship of architecture and sound is one of the topics of focus in the work of Eyland07. In 2008 the office won the competition Ohrenstrandmobil with a temporary architectural structure for new music. In 2009 the modular system for the contemporary opera in Berlin was built and it’s been possible to see it at differently places (main train stations, industrial sites, churches, city halls in Berlin; the structure of Ohrenstrandmobil is capable to be changed in order to be adapted to each different context, optimizing the acoustic of each area. Ohrenstrandmobil is at the same time backdrop, seat furniture and corporate design.

http://www.eyland.de/

appearance at Tuned City
Tuned City Nürnberg
12-tone Filter / 08.-10.07.11
12-tone Filter / workshop