Sound

About Sonic Sculpture. Between Disciplines Categories

Watching a sound art installation requires a silent contemplation that allows to listen carefully. Sometimes it is not considered as something - as music is - going beyond the limits of a time-based expression. Many sound sculptures, as well as most visual art, have a linear sound structure (e.g. Clown Torture, one of the earliest videos by Bruce Nauman).... READ MORE...

postcapital archive 1989-2001

OPAL opens with Daniel Garcia Andújar's project Postcapital.Archive 1989-2001, on April 21, 2010. The project functions as a multimedia installation and open databank which is based on a digital archive of over 250,000 documents such as texts, audio files, and videos from the Internet compiled by the artist over the past ten years.... READ MORE...

Spectra. Movement According To Cindy Van Acker

Cindy Van Acker - a choreographer who is among the most interesting international figures in this field - for years has been involved in radical research on movement, with which she associates an investigation into the mise-en-scene as a device, but in an auditory key, accompanied by leading figures of the contemporary electronic field, such as Mika Vainio from Pan Sonic: she has been collaborating with him since 2007, when they worked on Kernel.... READ MORE...

Florian Hecker Exhibition

Chisenhale Gallery is pleased to announce a major solo exhibition by Florian Hecker, his first in a UK public institution, comprising a new installation of sound pieces co-commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London and IKON Gallery, Birmingham. Hecker's new commission continues his investigation of sound in relation to the body and space, employing idiosyncratic psychoacoustic propositions in order to examine and disrupt spatial perception.... READ MORE...

Acoustics And Serendipity. An Interview With Jose’ Manuel Berenguer

We had the pleasure and honour of going to meet José Manuel Berenguer in his home. José Manuel Berenguer is a key figure in the electro-acoustic experimental scene in Spain. A polyvalent artist, with a rich CV of experiences in various fields, and also co-director of the Orquestra del Caos, he is a likable man, open to dialogue and of enormous cultural knowledge. You could listen to him talk for hours without lowering your level of concentration. His professional and artistic journey is fascinating.... READ MORE...

A Collective Resounding Body. Aiming Towards An Auditory Tactility

Among the more interesting figures on the international circuit, the choreographer Isabelle Choinire has been developing a journey connected to sound qualities in movement for many years. She founded and currently directs the Corps Indice of Montréal (Canada) company with which she develops research projects on the relationships between dance and technologies.... READ MORE...

The Recycled Sound Of Teatrino Elettrico Pigreco

Signal is an international avant-garde electronic and experimental music festival, which will take place from the 6th til the 14th of November in its third edition in Cagliari; the idea was produced by TiConZero, an cultural association that for years has been dealing with research in the music, theatrical and artistic fields. The artists involved represent the emerging levers in research on the border between sound and visual dimensions. The combination of music and video art in an inspired choice made by the frequent connections between various artistic languages, especially for those that regard avant-garde and research productions, which Signal dedicates its interest to.... READ MORE...

Seismographs Of Time. A Conversation With Roberto Paci Dalo’

Among the main figures of contemporary experimentation, Roberto Paci Dal˜ is a director, multimedia artist and composer/performer. He is director and creator of the Giardini Pensili group. His research develops within an area that goes from the development of radio interventions to sound installations; from the development of plays to the building of virtual stages like the Itaca project commissioned by the Teatro di Roma and directed by Mario Martone (1999-2000), passing through the development of the film that, as in the case of Petr˜leo México (2004) was presented at the Locarno International film festival... READ MORE...

Sommercamp + Workstation. Temporary Autonomous Culture

On the 16th of August Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin hosted the presentation of works created during the course of six days of intensive workshops within the Sommercamp Workstation project, an event conceived as a mobile laboratory for art and media, which came about from the very important experience of the ex-research centre Tesla Medialab (www.tesla-berlin.de), a project that lasted four months and was situated in various places in the heart of Berlin.... READ MORE...