[resource-net] Event on Graphical sound at Spektrum Berlin on 4th of March

Wed Feb 22 14:53:24 CET 2017

Hi reSource members,

my name is Arina. I just finished my internship at Spektrum
<http://spektrumberlin.de/home.html> and as a result of it on 4th of March
I'm curating my own event there. Hopefully you'll find it interesting.
That's the info:

*Risovannyj Zvuk: Graphical Sound in Soviet Russia and beyond #273*

There is a little awareness that in 1930-s while Rudolf Pfenninger and
Oskar Fischinger in Germany were trying to produce experimental sound works
purely with drawing methods, the same efforts were made by Arseny Avraamov
in USSR. The hidden history of graphical sound in Soviet Russia would still
be little known in modern Russia and almost unknown outside of the country,
if Andrey Smirnov in 2013 didn't present the book "Sound in Z", where the
results of his longstanding research were published. "Risovannyj Zvuk" is
aimed to give an overview of the history of graphical sound in Soviet
Russia and beyond as well as to show the modern interpretation of it.

19:00 - opening of the Marcel Schwittlick's installation "Digital motion /
Composition #37"

20:00 - Introduction lecture of Jan Thoben, screening and online live
interview with Andrey Smirnov

21:00 - Premiere of "Elliptical sound collage" by Patrick K.-H., AudeRrose
and Andreas Karaoulanis

Entrance: 7-12 euro (up to your offer)

The event is curated by Arina Koreniushkina

Part of Vorspiel / transmediale & CTM

Andrey Smirnov is an interdisciplinary artist, independent curator,
collector, writer, composer. He is a researcher and senior lecturer at the
Centre for Electroacoustic Music at Moscow State Conservatory, and a
lecturer at the Rodchenko School for Modern Photography and Multimedia,
where he teaches courses on history and aesthetics of electroacoustic
music, sound design and composition, new musical interfaces and physical
computing. In 1992-2012 he was the founding director of the Theremin Center
in Moscow. He has conducted numerous workshops and master classes in the
U.S., Europe and Russia, and participated in various festivals and
conferences. Since 1976 he conducts research on the development of
electronic music techniques and gestural interfaces. His collection of the
historical documents and original electronic musical instruments has been
combined with extensive research into the history of music technology with
broad experience in composition, interactive performance and curatorial
activities.

Jan Thoben is a musicologist and art historian. He has published on the
cultural history of optical sound and co-edited the print and online
compendium see-this-sound. Since 2013 he has lectured at universities and
art academies in the UK and Germany. Thoben is research and teaching
assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig. He also lectures at the
Sound Studies and Sonic Arts postgraduate course at the Berlin University
of the Arts.

Marcel Schwittlick is an interdisciplinary artist. With his work he is
examining possibilities of combining analog and digital systems. He is
interested in digital culture, cybernetic systems and its inclinations on
social relationships on all levels. He is experimenting with a variety of
media, ranging from digital images, installations, videos and acrylic
paintings. Recent developments in artificial intelligence research are
having a heavy influence on his work.

"Digital Motion / Composition #37"

The installation draws one instance of the Composition #37 series with a
plotter on a piece of paper. This series plays with algorithmic geometric
arrangements of computer mouse movement recordings. While this drawing
slowly evolves, a microscope is attached to the same axis as the pen. It is
capturing the closeup of the drawing revealing alternating black and white
lines filtered through the grain of the paper surface.

AudeRrose is multi-disciplinary artist, working with performance,
photography, sound and projection. Her imagery plays with narrative
structures, developing dreamy and intimate universes, exploring various
forms of interplay between body, images in motion, deconstructive
narrations and self-mythology. Her performances articulate live scenography
protocols, integrating video as an environment medium, often using
real-time camera feedback, considering the black box as a possible oneiric
space, where sounds and images communicate in a poetic and narrative
journey.

Patrick K.-H. (aka Anton Iakhontov) is sound artist / video artist /
composer. He works with sound installations, live and written acousmatic,
graphical collage and animation and researches interactive /
cross-disciplinary forms, permutating the media, aiming on achieving
unexpected mutants. Being member of Theremin Center for Electroacoustic
Music at Moscow Conservatory, Moscow Cyber Orchestra and many other
international collaborations, he plays and performances in Russia, Austria
and Germany. Besides that he puts lots of effort in spreading the
knowledge, organizing educational programs and curating events at Media
Studio in Alexandrinsky Theatre (St. Petersburg) and in founded by him the
Floating Sound Gallery for spatial sound (St.Petersburg).

Andreas Karaoulanis comes from a Computer Science and Animation background.
His current work deals with interactive media design and animation. He has
presented his work in Museum Of London, Moscow, Paris and in various
galleries and spaces around Europe. One of his latest projects is
bestbefore, an online interactive showcase blog with hundreds of daily
visitors. Along with Antonis Anissegos, he is also a member of the duo
“best before unu”, focusing on improvised audio-visual relationship.

"Elliptical sound collage"

Visual vivisectional practices upon Chinese ink, sun prints, painting,
transforming organic shapes into surreal live collages, reflecting the
journey that sound does simultaneously. All three performers, brought up in
different conceptual and technical backgrounds, have crossed paths by
sharing admiration to graphical sound, from its tradition to modernity –
which gives them a pivot for the arising structure submitted within the
graphical sound vocabulary.

Links:

Website:
http://spektrumberlin.de/events/detail/risovannyj-zvuk-graphical-sound-in-soviet-russia-and-beyond-274.html

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1238364862925877/

Thanks a lot!

Best,

Arina Korenyu

015257560235

arina.korenyu at gmail.com
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