March 5th, 2010
foto © Mirjam-Staub
Performance recomendation:
21. + 22. March 2010 / sophiensaele / Berlin
MaerzMusik / SONIC ARTS LOUNGE
Felix Kubin + ensemble Intégrales
Echohaus
Live concert for 6 rooms, headphones ensemble and electronics (2010) WP
Echohaus, a concert for 6 rooms, headphone ensemble and electronics is based on an idea by the Hamburg composer and artist Felix Kubin, which was developed in collaboration with the composer Burkhard Friedrich, the ensemble Intégrales and the pop music producer Tobias Levin.
Initially the project was planned purely as studio production. So as to achieve a living, “cinematic” sound with unusual dynamics and mechanical amplification of detail, a special recording technique was developed whereby the musicians play in separate rooms, connected to one another via headphones.
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January 26th, 2010
tuned city panel at clubtransmediale 2010 with John Grzinich [US/EE] Sam Auinger [AT/DE] Derek Holzer [US/DE] and Carsten Stabenow [DE]
During the initial tuned city event in Berlin in the summer of 2008, almost 100 artists, architects and thinkers gathered together in a variety of locations around the city to discuss issues of sound and architecture. The panel will introduce general ideas that mark the field of research and present recent planning developed by tuned city for ISEA 2010 (in collaboration with the KHM Cologne) and for the European Cultural Capital Tallinn in 2011.
5 february 2010 / 7 pm / .HBC Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 9 / 10178 Berlin-Mitte
http://www.clubtransmediale.de
January 15th, 2010
The Installation BUG by Mark Bain in cooperation with Arno Brandlhuber is finally realised and running.
Via a headphone jack you can plug in and listen to the well received building. Mark Bain implemented a system of geodata and seismic sensors in the infrastructure of the building as well as in the concrete as the building was raised. These hyper-sensitive instruments capture all mechanic and acoustic micro sensations happening in and around the building, like the wind passing by the façade, foot steps on the stairs, raindrops on the roof and termic material expansion.
The installation will be official opened on the 22nd of january 2010, 9:30 P.M. with a performance by Mark Bain.
In collaboration with the gallery Koch Oberhuber Wolff
December 6th, 2009
Performance recomendation:
11. December 2009 / ausland Berlin
An acousmatic composition by Thomas Ankersmit and Valerio Tricoli, based on location recordings inside the main radar-dome of the abandoned Teufelsberg espionage facility.
The Teufelsberg is an artificial hill built from the rubble of war-damaged Berlin after the Second World War. It is the highest point in the city. The NSA, the US National Security Agency, built one of its largest listening stations on top of the hill, rumored to be part of the global ECHELON intelligence gathering network, and capable of intercepting radio transmissions deep into the Soviet Union. The base has been abandoned since the early 1990’s. (Recorded by Paul Paulun.)
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October 6th, 2009
noise – or the artificial concept of silence
lecture about some ideas around noise at the UM festival in Lisbon.
Conversation 1 with Emanuel Pimenta and Carsten Stabenow.
“From this Position”: The construction of landscape and the interrelations between sound, image, architecture and space.
18 – 19.30h
12 November 2009
FBAUL, Auditorium, Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa,
Largo da Academia Nacional de Belas-Artes. €3
October 6th, 2009
Derek Holzer will present selected topics and documents from Tuned City, and introduce his TUNED CITY COLOGNE workshop to take place over the next several months at KHM.
Monday 19 October 19.00-20.00
Klanglabor, Filzengraben 8-10, Hinterhof links
Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, Cologne, Germany
October 5th, 2009
This workshop lead by Derek Holzer – envisioned as a starting point towards the creation of a long term project aimed at ISEA 2010 – aims at investigating the interrelation of sound, architecture and urban space in the city of Cologne.
More info here.
part I:
Tuesday 20 October & Wednesday 21 October 10.00-17.00
Klanglabor, Filzengraben 8-10, Hinterhof links
Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, Cologne, Germany
September 10th, 2009
The tuned city poster series was selected for 100 Best Posters 2008 and the Gestalten Verlag Berlin just published the poster series in the book “Regular – Grafic Design Today” as well the publishing house victio:ary, Hong Kong in “Flashback”.
The tunedcity book missed the nomination for the “nicest german books 2008″ by the Stiftung Buchkunst just closely and is listed under “50 also very nice books”.
September 6th, 2009
We are working right now on a tuned city edition for Tallinn 2011 (European Capital of Culture 2011). Tallinn Sound City 2011 is a bigger project within that frame we are going to develop a symposium with strong local connection. A strong focus will be – like for the tuned city event in Berlin 2008 – on demonstrations and presentations in situ in order to illustrate the correlations between sound and architecture.
June 24th, 2009
soundart in public space – salon talk with Stefan Rummel (sound artist Berlin), Carsten Stabenow (tuned city) and Markus Steffens (singuhr, Berlin)
Mi 24.06.09 um 20 h
ohrenstrand auf dem Pfefferberg: singuhr – salons
Pfefferberg Haus 13, Schönhauser Allee 176, 10119 Berlin
May 6th, 2009
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
March 14th, 2009
Selected conference recordings (1.-5.juli 2008) can be found here. Recordings of the Preview Symposiums (26.1. 2008) here.
November 6th, 2008
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.
September 24th, 2008
12 october, TUNED CITY is invited with a project presentation to the dis-patch festival in Belgrade
September 4th, 2008
6 september, TUNED CITY is invited to the full pull festival in Malmö. (Projectpresentation, discussion, performances by Mark Bain and Julien Clauss.
August 6th, 2008
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.
July 10th, 2008
arte reports about tuned city 2008 in Berlin.
June 29th, 2008
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
March 13th, 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
