The Installation  BUG by Mark Bain in cooperation with Arno Brandlhuber just received a HONORARY MENTION for DIGITAL MUSICS & SOUND ART at PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA 2010!

We had the good fortune during the recent Tuned City pre-event, to spend some time in the historic Sea Plane Hanger currently under renovation in Tallinn. … You can read a very excellent docu on our recent activities in Tallinn on John Grzinich’s website with fotos, videos, audio-recordings and descriptions. Some more images can be found at our Tuned City Flickr pool and two video-documetations of the workshops by Pedro Balbas on youtube. We even made it to the Russian tv news in Tallinn with the project.

Tuned City was invited for the international conference “Progettazione urbana e spazi sonori” at the Politecnico di Milano sede di Piacenza June 7th 2010.

The Event was organised by Ricciarda Belgiojoso (Osservatorio Public Art Politecnico di Milano) and  Valeria Merlini (Studio Urban Resonance, Berlino). The program included Grégoire Chelkoff, architect, director of CRESSON, Grenoble, Ricciarda Belgiojoso, Architect, Osservatorio Public Art Politecnico of Milano, Brandon LaBelle , artist and Professor at the National Academy of the Arts, Bergen, Norway, Valeria Merlini, sound-artist and architect, Studio Urban Resonance, FKL, Carsten Stabenow, Tuned City, Pierangelo Carbone (Assessore alla Qualificazione Urbana e Ambiente del Comune di Piacenza), Benito Dodi (Presidente Ordine degli architetti, pianificatori, paesaggisti e conservatori della Provincia di Piacenza), Emilio Fantin (artist, Osservatorio Public Art of Politecnico di Milano), Roberto Paci Dalò (artist, director, composer, artist director of di Giardini Pensili and Velvet Factory), Steve Piccolo (musician and sound artist), Franco Vaccari (photographer, Osservatorio Public Art of Politecnico di Milano)…

Tuned City Tallinn takes off 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 in the old waterplane hangar at the port of Tallinn. Read more about it on the Tallinn sub page.

Derek Holzer will present the Tuned City project at the Electronic Music Foundation in New York City on Tuesday 27 April. This lecture is free, and starts at 7pm.
In this lecture, we will see and hear some of the projects from the Tuned City event by Mark Bain, Raviv Ganchrow, Will Schrimshaw, John Grzinich, James Beckett, Akio Suzuki, Barry Blesser, Randy H.Y. Yau + Scott Arford, Thomas Ankersmit + Antoine Chessex, Bernhard Leitner, CRESSON, Farmers Manual, AGF, Chris Watson + BJ Nilsen, Jacob Kirkegaard, Martin Howse, Ralf Schreiber + Martin Kuentz and Staalplaat Sound System will be discussed, among others, as well as related projects covering the themes of Temporary Architecture for Sound, Buildings as Instruments and Composing the Cityscape. A limited number of books and program guides will also be available.

Electronic Music Foundation: http://www.emf.org/
For more details on Holzer’s tour, please visit: http://macumbista.net

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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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

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

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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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

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

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

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”.

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.

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

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

Selected conference recordings (1.-5.juli 2008) can be found here. Recordings of the Preview Symposiums (26.1. 2008) here.

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.

12 october, TUNED CITY is invited with a project presentation to the dis-patch festival in Belgrade

6 september, TUNED CITY is invited to the full pull festival in Malmö. (Projectpresentation, discussion, performances by Mark Bain and Julien Clauss.