[microsound-announce] TUNED CITY NEWSLETTER 03/2011

[Derek Holzer]

Tuned City newsletter #3 / 2011:

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TUNED CITY FESTIVAL 2011 IN TALLINN/ESTONIA JULY 4-10 2011

[1] WORKSHOP REGISTRATION

[2] SPEAKING WITH SPACE - CONCERT PROGRAM

[3] SONORITY OF PLACE - LECTURE PROGRAM

[4] SITE SPECIFIC PROGRAM

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[1] WORKSHOP REGISTRATION

Tuned City in Tallinn started already with a series of workshops earlier 
in spring. In close collaboration with our partner Ptarmigan 
(http://ptarmigan.ee), we are offering a series of workshops short 
before and during the event in July. Invited artists will each share 
their individual tools for listening to the city, and offer both a 
deeper insight into their artistic practice and a chance for the 
participants to become actively involved in the program of the event. 
And whether those tools be telephones, acoustic tubes, electronic 
transducers, radio waves or physical movement, the participants in these 
workshops will never hear the city the same way again.

These workshops are open for registration right now:

Methaphones workshop / July 4 + 5 2011
with Unsworn Telecom (Stockholm, SE)
http://www.tunedcity.net/?lp_lang_pref=en&page_id=1472

12-tone filter / July 4 – 10 2011 (during the event)
with eyland 07, René Rissland, Jürgen Lehmeier (Nürnberg, D)
http://www.tunedcity.net/?page_id=1478

Tuning the City / July 5 – 10 2011 (during the event)
with Mads Bech Paluszewski (Copenhagen, DK)
http://www.tunedcity.net/?page_id=1715

framework radio – documentation and production / July 7 – 10 2011 
(during the event)
with Felicity Ford (UK) and Valeria Merlini (IT / D)
on behalf of Patrick McGinley, framework radio (US / EE)
http://www.tunedcity.net/?page_id=1503

City sounds concerts / June 28 – July 3 2011
with Ici-Même (Grenoble, F)
http://www.tunedcity.net/?page_id=1881


An overview can be found 
here:http://www.tunedcity.net/?lp_lang_pref=en&page_id=950


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[2] SPEAKING WITH SPACE - CONCERT PROGRAM

07.07.2011 20:00
Charles Curtis (US) – Naldjorlak (by Eliane Radigue)

08.07.2011 21:00
Charlemagne Palestine (BE) – Schlingen Blängen (organ performance)

09.07.2011 21:00
Thomas Ankersmit (NL/D) – Saxophone and Synthesizer Improvisation

10.07.2011 21:00
Maja S.K. Ratkje (NO) – Electro-acoustic Vocals

Traditional and classical music often treat the performance hall as a 
tabula rasa to be inscribed with sound, and even improvised music can 
overlook the site it is performed within as an important factor. So what 
happens when a musician decides to play a duo with space as the partner?

Tuned City has invited four vibrant, innovative and influential 
contemporary performers to address the topic of sound and space through 
four individual music performances. Each artist has developed a special 
relationship over their career with their chosen instrument–the cello, 
the organ, the saxophone and the voice–which becomes like a spoken idiom 
to them. Using this unique language, the performers will engage in 
dialog with a variety of spaces, from the warm, wooden intimacy of a 
14th Century horse mill to the cold, concrete depth of Soviet-era 
industrial structures.

Read more: http://www.tunedcity.net/?lp_lang_pref=en&page_id=1268

Buy Tickets: 
http://www.piletilevi.ee/est/piletid/tallinn_2011/muusika/?show=22397


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[3] SONORITY OF PLACE - LECTURE PROGRAM

This series aims at drawing correspondences between ‚architecture‘ and 
‚sound‘ to a more primary relation between notions of ‚place‘ and 
‚practices of listening‘. In other words to underscore an interplay 
between the sense of being ‚situated‘ and the intentionality of what is 
being ‚heard‘. It is from within this primary level of interactions that 
a sense of ‚sound‘ as well as a notion of ‚site‘, and by extension 
‚architecture‘, are derived in the first place. For the current 
constellation of talks and presentations a particular emphasis is placed 
on an understanding of listening, not a biological constant, but rather 
a ‚practice‘ that both shapes and is shaped by various contexts. In this 
sense every mode of hearing is understood to be distributed across a 
diversity of practices and disciplines.

Talks and presentations as well as pertinent artist projects and 
presentations included in this Tuned City event draw upon recent 
developments in such diverse fields as urbanism, art and architecture 
history and theory, philosophy, sensory history, sensory ethnography, 
archaeoacoustics and musicology, getting closer to what may be at stake 
in auditory models of ‚situated-ness‘. One common approach, shared by 
the various practitioners, understands the ‚sonic imagination‘ to be an 
operative mode of thinking. It is this mode of thinking that potentially 
engages the social, aesthetic and even ethical, political implications 
of an attentiveness to the sonority of place. Please have a closer look:

http://www.tunedcity.net/?page_id=1378


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[4] SITE SPECIFIC PROGRAM

To properly explore the sonic effects possible within the cityscape, it 
is often necessary to move beyond the traditional model of the seated 
conference- or performance-audience. For Tallinn 2011, we aspire to 
present a selection of innovative and fresh sound experiences across 
several specially-selected locations in the city.

Taking place each afternoon, the Site Specific Projects are a modular 
series of parallel programs featuring soundwalks, performances, 
installations and interventions. These projects involve the audience in 
a new way of experiencing sound and space through the use of sculptural, 
graphical, musical and sonic means. Some of the projects are designed 
for a small group of people, keeping the experience of the project both 
participatory and intimate. Such projects may be offered several times 
during the Tuned City event. Other projects may only be offered once 
within the context of the conference program, and some may require 
registration to keep the audience within a certain size. Please check 
the project descriptions at our website for more information:

http://www.tunedcity.net/?page_id=1446


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