Podewil Sound Service

[Kim Cascone <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Podewil Sound Service

SoundArt @ transmediale.03 [PLAY GLOBAL!]

Podewil in cooperation with international media art festival transmediale.
03 and club transmediale.03.

"Podewil Sound Service" presents sound installations during transmediale.03=
...
Musicians, interdiscplinary artists and architects not only plumb the depth=
s
of sonic, visual or spatial SoundArt but also make use of available
technologies worldwide in order to bring societal and social aspects into
focus. SoundArt will be discussed in relation to architecture, recycling,
copyright, consumption and politics. Media artists and musicians often have
the same software at their disposal. The approaches to visualization and
sound in both art forms, however, are different. At the center is the
balance between visual and sonic elements. Synergies, which stimulate
musicans and media artists, are triggered through the existing soft and
hardware. Which possibilities are there to use technology discretely and
solely for artistic results? How do artists manage, despite or because of
this technology, to mark new aesthetic ground? In the meantime, an entire
generation worldwide has grown up with knowledge in both areas: new media
and music. Musicians work on further developing software and open up
dimensions for new play possibilities, expression and presentation forms.
The "Podewil Sound Service" will check out and observe this potential. Some
of the participating musicians and sound artists are invited as guests of
the club transmediale. They experiment in many different ways on the basis
of their own experiences with media and technologies.

Soundinstallations 1.2.-8.2.2003, 15.00-21.00

1.2.2003, 18.00 opening
1.2.2003, 19.00 opening concert :
Polycephal presents:
Neurobot (Facial Index, Podletz, Wolfram) PL
Vi=C3=B6n & Mem (Vi=C3=B6n, Membrana) PL

Neurobot (PL)
NEUROBOT has been formed in December 1996 by Dominik Kowalczyk and Jacek
Staniszewski with the intent to reflect on various juxtapositions of art,
technology and theory: performances, CDs, a webzine as well as an
internet-plattform are part of the Neurobot-universum. NEUROBOT largely
result from the initial decision to use 'below the ground' tactics, remain
self-reliant and flexible work/activity cell. In the period 1998-2002,
nearly 20 live sets have been performed by NEUROBOT, each one in a slightly
different working frame. Apart from working with NEUROBOT, its members
create their own sound projects released on self-created labels Polycephal
and Podletz$.

Vi=C3=B6n & Mem (PL)
Vi=C3=B6n & Mems main interest are abstract electroacoustic forms created live =
on
the basis of manipulated field recordings. The collaboration is focused on =
a
fine balance between profound listening and intuitive responding. During
live sets the mutual energy exchange between them has its representation in
the surround sound system, providing the audience with a deep,
phenomenological experience.
Working together, they directly address and explore the relationship betwee=
n
sound and space and usually build their works out of lots of layers. What
makes their music characteristic is its unique subtlety and delicacy,
offering the genuine ocean of sonic details to be discovered by the
attentive ear.

Podewil Sound Service INSTALLATIONS
1.2. - 8.2. 15 - 21h
Vernissage Saturday 1.2. 18h

steinbr=C3=BCchel (ch)
circa

Four speakers spread the digital soundscapes created by the swiss artist
steinbr=C3=BCchel. From simple sounds like raindrops intense soundscapes emerge=
...
Based on a random selection, the installation generates permanently changin=
g
patterns. The listener is invited to create an individual arrangement by
moving through the room.

Ultra-red (us)
N30

Ultra-red call themselves "audio activists". The material for N30 derives
from the Anti-WTO protests in Seattle in November 1999. The sound systems o=
f
local clubs were used to block street crossings by turning them into dance
floors. A tense reflection about the political insignificance of club music
and its purposeful application, about corporeality and intellectual
strategies.

Kim Cascone (us)
Anti-Correlation v.2

Cascone uses the digital images that he gets sent through spam advertising
from Korea and combines them with the sounds generated by an algorithmic
programme from fragments of traditional Korean music. A mixture of mutated
sounds and visual ruins, rooted in the post-digital genre of microsound.

Jan Jacob Hofmann (de)
Sonic Architecture

Sonic Architecture is spatial electronic music. Based on the Ambisonic
method, sounds can be positioned and moved around in space very precisely,
independent of the placement of the speakers. The sound events act as
architectonic material that generates spaces.

Random_Inc (de)
Walking in Jerusalem: Pirate Radio Stations featuring Ran Slavin & Eran
Sachs

The primary sound sources are recordings of pirate radios in Jerusalem,
mostly illegal religious, fundamentalist Jewish or Arab stations with a
range of few kilometres. The spectrum is densely occupied and contested by
local alternative culture and youth radios. By means of the random function
of CD-players, the sound material is remixed and sampled into ever new
ambiences, from complex and dense to minimalist.

concert + listening-room

3.2.2003 "Variable Resistance" (AUS)

13.00-23.00 listening room "Ten Hours of Sound from Australia"

19.00 lecture + discussion
Csaba Toth "Sonic Rim: Performing Noise around the Pacific."

21.00 concert
Oren Ambarchi (electr., guit.)
David Brown (electr.)
Philip Samartzis (electr.)
Darrin Verhagen (electr.)

Variable Resistance: Ten Hours of Sound from Australia

"Variable Resistance"  presents a selection of work by contemporary
Australian sound artists. Curated by the multi-talented Australian musician
and curator, Philip Samartzis, Variable Resistance surveys trends in
contemporary Australian sound art practice. The event consists of two parts=
...
The listening room component of the exhibition presents ten one-hour
programs. Each program exemplifies compositional investigations including
Microphonics, Microsonics, Electronics, Rhythm, Spatialisation, Film Scores
and Sound Design, Improvisation, and Psycho and Electro Acoustics. The
listening room offers material presented in SFMOMA's Phyllis Wattis Theater=
...
Four of the leading experimental musicians in Australia at present - David
Brown, Philip Samartzis, Oren Ambarchi and Darrin Verhagen - will  be
playing live at Podewil.
Csaba Toth, a noted critic of contemporary noise composition, will do a
lecture, contextualizing the listening room presentation by drawing upon
historical trends in contemporary Australian sound.
(www.sfmoma.org/crossfade).

Curator: Elke Moltrecht
Podewil - Centre for Contemporary Art www.podewil.de

Podewil in cooperation with transmediale.03 and club transmediale.03

Supported by  the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council for
the Arts, Australische Botschaft Berlin and Studio der Akademie der K=C3=BCnste
Berlin.

Tickets: concerts 10,- =E2=82=AC, Installations 2,- =E2=82=AC
Podewil - Zentrum f=C3=BCr aktuelle K=C3=BCnste - www.podewil.de
Klosterstr. 68-70, 10179 Berlin-Mitte (U 2)
Karten: 24749-777, ticket@xxxxxxxxxx

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