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.