Category: projects

Klang-Quelle – Revenant – Architektur als Instrument
a listening and improvisation workshop with John Grzinich (US/EST)
8-12 participants
11.-15.April 2011 dayly 12-17

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

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

Mini Tuned City Nürnberg
Sounds of Muggenhof
11. – 17. April 2011

As part of an interdisziplinary artist competition initiated by the city of Nürnberg/Germany Tuned City is going to realize a ‘mini-event’ in a very interesting part of the city called Muggenhof/Eberhardshof. The area is a mix of havitation and industrial architecture inbetween a green belt with a little river on one side and the main connection highway to Fürth (and the parallel train track) on the other side. The industrial architecture is dominated by the former production facilities of AEG and the Quelle (mailoder) headquarter build by Ernst Neufert.

With workshops and public interventions we’re going to explore that neighborhood for one week. The results are going to be shown on the 16th of april with presentations, performances and lectures. (See details >>> workshops and lectures))

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Sounds of Muggenhof wird unterstützt von:

Sounds of Muggenhof und GIVE ME FIVE sind Projekte im Rahmen des Festivals made in … Die Kultur- und Kreativlandschaft NürnbergFürthErlangenSchwabach, das vom 1. bis 17. April die Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft der vier Städte in den Blick nimmt. made in … ist ein Festival der Arbeitsgemeinschaft „Kultur im Großraum Nürnberg, Fürth, Erlangen, Schwabach”.  >> www.made-in-2011.de

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

Patrick McGinley (1974) is an american born sound and performance artist who has lived and worked in europe since 1996. from 1996 until 1998 he lived in paris, where he studied theatre, and began his sound experiments in the context of those studies. he has composed works for several theatre performances, including the works of his own company, as well as performing live soundworks for others. in 2002 he co-founded framework an organisation that produces a weekly radio show on london’s resonance 104.4fm. his work concentrates on the framing of sounds from our environment which normally pass through our ears unnoticed and unremarked, but which out of context become unrecognisable, alien and extraordinary.

http://www.murmerings.com/

appearance at Tuned City
Tuned City Tallinn / pre-events
Sound Map of Tallinn
framework radio: documentation and production workshop Tallinn

Antony Hall is a multimedia artist with an interest in freshwater biology, biophysics, electronics, and the physicality of sound. Working within contexts such as universities and museums, often in collaboration with scientists. He is interested in how we interface with science & technology; visually, physically and ideologically; and how these interactions effect us creatively and socially. Exemplified by an ongoing collaborative work with the owl project producing a hand crafted wooden laptop computer (the Log1K & iLog) among other instruments. He has also worked with electrogenic fish, harnessing their ability to communicate and navigate with electric fields, creating an artwork controlled by the live fish (ENKI).

http://antonyhall.net/

appearance at Tuned City
Tuned City Tallinn

lecture by Valeria Merlini

“Sonic garden in the urban sphere” explores how the aural aspect can be taken into consideration in order to plan landscape architecture.
Its focus will be the conception and the realization of green areas in the urban environment, considering their specific sonotope.
“Sonic garden in the urban sphere” would like to give suggestions for an orchestration of the urban landscape, showing connections between the theories developed until now and a selection of projects realized in the field of  urban planning, landscape design and sound art.

appearance at Tuned City
tuned city tallinn / may 2010

site-specific sound intervention and talk by Raviv Ganchrow

Crescents
An accumulation of time-delayed reflections manifest a series of arced resonances between properties of sound, the structure of the hanger and arranged remnants from the location.

Bent on Listening
The palpable rebounding of echoes maintains a prominent role in configuring the epistemologies of sound. From the reflecting-arc diagrams of Marin Mersenne to the concave walls of acoustic defense, curvilinear shaping at times mirrors alternating tendencies in perceptual modes. Focusing on echo as an oscillatory event occurring on an architectural scale, this talk will trace eclectic outcomes from particular sonic-sinuous interminglings.

appearance at Tuned City
tuned city tallinn / may 2010

Born in Bolzano (IT), Valeria Merlini is a sound artist, turntablist, DJ and curator based in Berlin. After completing her study in Architecture in Florence, she obtained a Master’s degree in Sound Studies at UdK, Berlin. In her work she explores sounds of the everyday within an urban context through an interdisciplinary and critical approach. She is co-founder of Studio Urban Resonance, is a member of the Italian label Burp Enterprise and co-runs Staalplaat Radio. As a DJ she focuses on experimental electronic music, playing solo and also with several groups, constantly extending the conventions of turntablism, musique concrete, free improvisation and composed music. She was the director of Museruole Festival (IT, 2012) and has participated in numerous events and exhibitions including Berlin Sonic Places (D), Audiograft 2012 (UK), Tuned City (EE), Echtzeitmusiktage 2010 (D), STEIM’s Turntable Night 7 (NL), Audioscoop / IntroInSitu (NL), Das kleine Fieldrecording Festival (D), Avantgarde Festival Schiphorst (D), Soundscape and Listening (AT).

http://valeriamerlini.tumblr.com
http://www.studiourbanresonance.de
http://phonopolis.wordpress.com

appearance at Tuned City
Brussels / Performance: Listening Back and Forth in Brussels / 27. June 2013
Brussels / Shorts: Listening to Tuned City from within and without / 28-30. June 2013
Brussels / Workshop: Listening to Tuned City from within and without / 26–30. June 2013
Tallinn / framework radio – documentation and production / 07–10.07.11
Tuned City Tallinn / pre-events

Tuned City Tallinn started with two workshop projects in the week 18.-22. may 2010, a series of artistic/scientific research projects in the following week and a first public project presentation on may 29th 2010.

Program details:

1. PUBLIC WORKSHOPS
week 17-22 may 2010

workshop I
Sonic Surveys of Tallinn
exploring, location hunting, mapping and field recording of urban soundscapes
May 18-22, 2010 // meeting place: uue maailma seltsimaja, corner of Koidu and Videviku streets, Tallinn

workshop led by: John Grzinich, Derek Holzer, Patrick McGinley
registration: jg[ät]maaheli.ee

This interdisciplinary workshop (of artists, architects, urban planners, social geographers) concentrates on exploring working methods for mapping and documenting urban spaces and architectural structures of the city of Tallinn. The methods used will combine research and practical skills in surveying and recording the “sonic geographies” found throughout the city. As Tallinn has radically different zones, both architecturally and socially  our research aims to reflect expose and reflect the variety of soundscapes to be found there.

This would include the practical elements of an overall “field recording” and “listening” workshop with an introduction to sound, soundscape and field recording techniques. The structure of the workshop divides the overall group of participants into several small scouting teams (3 groups of 4 or 5 people) that make excursions to different districts of the city. A range of locations could include the Soviet ‘plattenbau’ districts like Lasnamäe and Õismäe, the park areas of Kadriorg and Nõmme and the seaside districts of Pirita and Kopli (or whatever else can be introduced) for example.

Mapping the possible overlays of sonic regions or even specific sounds will help define potential “sonic landmarks”, as one of the main themes for the Tuned City conference to be held in July of 2011. Afterward we can pool the coordinates and recordings into a “map” or Survey of Acoustic Geography of Tallinn.

You can find some fotos on this project-page: http://maaheli.ee/main/archives/1479

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Workshop II
Form and Sound
with students of the EKA, the Conservatory and students from Kuvataiteakatemia Helsinki and KUNO
May 18-22, 2010

workshop led by: Lukas Kühne

The idea is to carry out a multidisciplinary laboratory building bridges amongst the different arts and genders. The proposal of this idea is interactive, an adventure that has to do with phenomena of natural laws and the ultimate technology. Sound does not exist without material support: it requires sources in space in order to have some kind of form and it needs ears in order to be heard. Sound depends on the material and the form of sound sources. This workshop explores the relationship between the form that creates sound and the sounds that create form.

This workshop project is meant to create artistic and scientific explorations of the unique acoustic situation of the old waterplane hangar and to find ways to preserve lively and illustrative
documentations of an outstanding spatial experience. The hangar will be changed  into a maritim museum, this development process causes a certain responsibility for the monument. A scientific analysis of the given frequencies and wavelength, the characteristics of the reverberation and diffusion in the space of the 3 domes and an investigation of the direct and related phenomena should provide a profound explanation. In close collaboration an artistic reflection should interpret, force – translate and visualize this unique sonotop.

(The artistic reflection could be build arround the topic of the echo, starting with the cultural history, the mythological background – the story about the nymph ‘echo’ and ‘narcissus’ as an explanation model of the dispartment of the acoustic and the visual world. Going over to a natural scientific and musically artistic exploration with the above mentioned research project, guided tours through the architecture and artistic performances. And ending with a metaphorical and poetic view on the topic of reflection. (as reaction on causation, repetition, return of history, echos from beyond …)

here you can find a little video from the workshop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ft-I-3-A0

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2. ARTISTIC/SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PROJEKTS

In the week 24-28 of may 2010 the artists Raviv Ganchrow (NL), Thomas Ankersmit (D) and Anthony Hall (UK) will explore the old hydroplane hangar.

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3. PUBLIC PRESENTATION

May 29 2010
Steamboat Icebreaker “SUUR TÕLL” and Seaplane Hangar – Lennusadama port, (Küti Street) Tallinn
>>> see map

The first public event introducing the “sonic landmarks tallinn” project in 2011 took place around the seaplane hangar as it serves as a great example for the deep relation of architecture and sound and would illustrate in a nice way the main idea of tuned city – to make the acoustic dimension of space and architecture perceptible.

One lasting impression from the Berlin event was of the specific acoustic qualities which each of the spaces used for the conference and performances possessed – whether it was a room designed from the acoustic perspective (such as the anechoic chamber at the Technical University or the giant radio concert hall at the Nalepastrasse), an improvised situation (such as the disused repair hall of the Wriezener Bahnhof) or a temporary public situation (such as on Alexanderplatz). These acoustic qualities provided each site which a specific identity which defined that location in space, assisted or inhibited communication and changed one‘s awareness of their surroundings and illustrated in a great way the debated topics very plastically.

In the same way as tuned city explores the different topics in direct relation to the actual spaces this pre-event in the hangar will give a taste of how the Tallinn event in 2011 will shape. In a mixture of theory, artistic presentation and direct experience we will present the results of the artistic/scientific research and documentation project as well as the results of the workshops to the audience. Some lectures will introduce the concepts of aural architecture and acoustic awareness.

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PROGRAM:

start 3pm at Steamboat Icebreaker “SUUR TÕLL” – Lennusadama port, (Küti Street) Tallinn

Opening and welcome – Mikko Fritze, Director of Tallinn 2011, European Cultural Capital

Introduction to the Estonian Maritime Museum project – Ott Sarapuu (EE) (enquired)
History of the seaplane hangar, future plans and architectural vision.

Sonic Landmarks – tunedcity in Tallinn 2011 – Tunedcity research group (int)
A preview of  the program for Tallinn 2011 introducing the general idea behind tunedcity, the research network, the artist and projects planed for the european capital project Sonic Landmarks.

Sonic garden in the urban sphere – Valeria Merlini (I)
lecture: Acoustics aspects of landscape architecture

Bent on Listening – Raviv Ganchrow (US/IL/NL)
lecture: From the reflecting-arc diagrams of Marin Mersenne to the concave walls of acoustic defense

Spatial perception and directional sound – Thomas Ankersmit (NL/D)
lecture: Spatial acoustics and their influence on our perception and communication

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presentations by artist involved in the planing for 2011 at seaplane hangar, Lennusadama port, (Küti Street) Tallinn:

Raviv Ganchrow (US/IL/NL)
intallation/demonstration: Crescents

Thomas Ankersmit (NL/D)
site-specific performance inside the hydroplane hangar

Antony Hall (UK)
presentation

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presentation of the workshop results:

Sonic Surveys of Tallinn
Workshop with MoKS (EE) – location hunting, mapping and field recording of urban soundscapes
– short performances and soundwalks

Form and Sound
Workshop by Lukas Kühne (D) together with The Estonian academy of arts EKA, The Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki and KUNO
– performances, demonstarations, soundwalks

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you can download the flyer here >>>

see this in estonian >>>

Tuned City Tallinn
Sonic Landmarks – a sonic path through Tallinn
official program of the European Cultural Capital Tallinn 2011

4th – 10th JULY 2011 / TALLINN

“Most people would probably say that architecture does not produce sound, it cannot be heard. But neither does it radiate light yet it can be seen. We see the light it reflects and thereby gain an impression of form and material. In the same way we hear the sounds it reflects and they, too, give us an impression of form and material”
(Steen Eiler Rasmussen – Experiencing Architecture (1959)

Hear Tallinn with new ears! Buildings and architecture are usually described in visual terms. But it is often our sense of hearing which assists us in experiencing and navigating through the spaces of urban cities.
There is no sound without space and no space without a sound. In every day life we are surrounded by the sounds of diverse nature and various origins. Language, sounds of nature and civilisation – sound as a carrier of information or as a factor of disturbance permanently encircles our consciousness.
Tuned City Tallinn will undertake an acoustic exploration of Tallinn. The goal will be to identify and explore the sonic landmarks of the city which define its identity, shape its communication and transform the perceptions of its visitors and inhabitants. A fascinating cross-section of international artists, performers, scientists and thinkers will be brought together to present their ideas about sound and space. In addition, the public will be invited to participate directly through a series of workshops and sound walks and experience diverse site-specific installations, performances and demonstrations.
A pre-event was taking place during the month of May 2010, introducing our project with a series of workshops, performances and lectures.
Tuned City Tallinn builds on ideas developed during the first ever event of its kind, held in Berlin during the summer of 2008.

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.

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Tuned City Tallinn
Sonic Landmarks – a sonic path through Tallinn
Euroopa kultuuripealinn Tallinn 2011 ametliku programmi osa

4th – 10th JULY 2011 / TALLINN

“Arvatavasti ütleb enamik inimesi, et arhitektuur ei produtseeri heli, seda ei ole võimalik kuulda. Samamoodi ei kiirga arhitektuur valgust, aga sellegipoolest on see nähtav. Me näeme valgust, mida ehitised peegeldavad ning niiviisi saame mulje vormist ja materjalist. Samamoodi kuuleme helisid, mida arhitektuur peegeldab ja niisama annab see meile mulje vormist ja materjalist.”
(Steen Eiler Rasmussen – Experiencing Architecture (1959)

Kuula Tallinna uute kõrvadega! Tavaliselt kirjeldatakse ehitisi ja arhitektuuri visuaalsete märksõnadega. Aga tihti on just meie kuulmismeel see, mis aitab meid (linna)ruumi kogemisel ja selles liikumisel. Ei ole heli ilma ruumita ega ruumi ilma helita. Igapäevaelus ümbritsevad meid eri loomu ja päritoluga helid, mis info kandja või mürafaktorina ringlevad pidevalt meie teadvuses.
2011. aasta suvel, mil Tallinn on Euroopa kultuuripealinn, võtab Tuned City ette Tallinna akustilise avastamise. Eesmärk on uurida ja identifitseerida linnaruumi helimaastiku märke; neid, mis defineerivad linna identiteeti, vormivad kommunikatsioone ja kujundavad elanike ja külastajate meeli. Selleks tuleb Tallinna kokku suur hulk rahvusvahelisi kunstnikke, esinejaid, teadlasi ja mõtlejaid, et esitleda oma ideesid heli ja ruumi kohta. Lisaks kaasatakse avalikkust, pakkudes võimalusi lüüa kaasa mitmes töötoas ja helijalutuskäikudel ning kogeda kohaspetsiifilisi installatsioone, performance’e ja esitlusi.

Tuned City Tallinn on võrsunud ideedest, mida arendati esimesel Tuned City sündmusel Berliinis 2008. aasta suvel. Tuned City kuulub Euroopa kultuuripealinn Tallinn 2011 programmi ja on valminud koostöös Mooste Kunsti ja Sotsiaalpraktika Keskusega (MoKS). Tallinn 2011 esitletava “Tuned City Tallinna” toetajad on ka Eesti Kultuurkapital, hasartmängumaksu nõukogu, kultuuriministeerium ja Goethe Instituut, Briti Nõukogu, EACEA (Kultuuriprogramm), Hollandi kuningriigi suursaatkond, Taani saatkond, Norra saatkond, Nordecon. Projekt valmib koostöös Eesti Kunstiakadeemia, Kunshogskoleutdanninger i Norden KUNO, von Krahli, Eesti Meremuuseumi ja Uue Maailma Seltsiga.

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ok, maybe later…