Monday, March 8th, 2010 5:24 pm
El viernes tras una intensa sesión de conferencias, de las que de primeras cabe destacar Derrick de Kerckhove o Christopher Salter, la jornada de la tarde en Paradiso estuvo centrada en una programación audiovisual presentada con un claro giro a la analógico, primitivista, en el que primaba a la manipulación directa del material que produce [...]
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 12:31 pm
Arie Altena is part of the Sonic Acts team. This edition, his works was mainly focused on the programming the Acoustic Spaces program on Saturday and the editing of the The Poetics Of Space book. Besides his work for Sonic Acts, Arie also writes about new media, art, internet-culture, media-theory, literature and works as an editor/researcher for V2_ in Rotterdam. I had the privilege to interview him after the conference on the last day of the Sonic Acts festival.
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 12:55 am
Sonic Acts Photos 2010.2.26 – De Balie, Paradiso
by Tanja Perisic
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 8:59 am
sound is unthinkable without space…
sound is always more than space…
sound and space never exactly coincide…
sound and space are consustantial but never exactly coexistant…
I am outisde the sound which is at the same time inside me…
music rarely happens in space, because music IS space.
Read more...Monday, March 1st, 2010 9:20 pm
Anticipation for the final evening of Sonic Acts 2010 was running high. Considering the location one should not be surprised. The planetarium at the Artis Zoo is (sadly) seldom used for musical performances so the event pulled a diverse crowd, so much so that it the evening was sold out in advance. What is it [...]
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Monday, March 1st, 2010 8:57 pm
Reading the program of Sonic Acts I got intrigued about this 30min, B&W, silent film. Made in 1973, it is the first of McCall´s ’solid light’ film series, an exploration on the sculptural qualities of light, using simple 16mm projections. He developed these series until the late 70s, only re-starting this practice more than twenty years later, this time using digital tools. This film is now a legendary example within the field of expanded cinema.
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Monday, March 1st, 2010 7:59 pm
UPIC (acronym of Unité Polyagogique Informatique du CEMAMu) is a ‘graphic input’ musical composition tool, devised by the composer Iannis Xenakis in the 70s. He used the system to compose a couple of works, but also wanted to make of it an ‘universal’ interface. In Xenakis words: “Anybody, even myself or you, or children, can draw lines or graphics with an electromagnetic ballpoint, and they are transformed by computer directly into sound … “
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Sven Schlijper | Kindamuzik
Na dagen van lezingen over hi-tech en concepten van ruimte en ruimtelijkheid zijn de laatste dag de tuinmannen van de ruimte aan de beurt. Oftewel: ruimte in termen van het astronomische universum, levende ruimte en patronen in biologie versus mathematische modellen. Dit ter opmaat voor het slotakkoord dat in het Planetarium van [...]
Sunday, February 28th, 2010 9:55 pm
Conflux, Yutaka Makino
28.02.2010, Melkweg Mediaroom
Na gewaarschuwd te zijn voor de gevaren en met een lichtelijke spanning zit ik in de Mediaroom van de Melkweg te wachten tot het optreden van Yutaka Makino begint. Onder een subtiele toon zie ik hoe langzaam maar zeker de grond van de ruimt gevuld word met rook die zich geleidelijk [...]
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Sven Schlijper | Kindamuzik
De tweede volledige dag aan lezingen in de conferentiezaal van De Balie presenteert een waaier aan onderwerpen langs soundwalks, field recordings, de muzikale ruimte en onzichtbare architecturen. ’s Avonds is Paradiso het Mekka voor liefhebbers die eerder de oren dan de ogen de broodnodige kost willen gunnen. Veelal mogen de ogen gesloten [...]
Saturday, February 27th, 2010 5:15 pm
Voor aanvang van haar lezing luistert Hildegard Westerdkamp aandachtig naar de akoestiek van de conferentiezaal van de Balie. Tijdens de lezing wordt ook snel duidelijk waarom, naast soundscapes van de band zorgen ook meerdere sprekers voor een af wisselende beleving. Zo blijft ze steeds op zoek naar de mogelijkheid mensen geluid zo te laten ervaren [...]
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010 4:42 pm
Barry Truax opened the session at De Balie on Saturday, a whole day devoted specially to soundscape, phonography and the exploration of the acoustic qualities of our environment.
Truax´s career has been combining academic computer and electroacoustic music with social and ecological concerns. Since the 70s, as part of the World Soundscape Project and at the Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, he has been developing academic and artistically the fields of music composition with environmental sounds and acoustic ecology.
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010 4:34 pm
Our very first contact with Sonic Acts the Thursday afthernoon, was with Fred Worden movie Fred Worden 1859. Upon the description “Built out of a 30-frame clip of a lens flare. LSD is illegal, 1859 is not”, we experience the beggining of a lisergical tryp, directly comunicated with the Friday live-cinema Bruce McClure show. Indeed, [...]
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Sven Schlijper | Kindamuzik
In De Balie start op de conferentievrijdag een uitgebreid programma aan lezingen. Thematisch gegroepeerd onderzoekt Sonic Acts XIII zo onder andere immersieve ruimte, historische vista’s op ruimtelijke utopia’s en het actuele en futuristische concept van hybrid space(s). Het avondprogramma in Paradiso staat vervolgens in het teken van de verruiming van de visuele [...]
Saturday, February 27th, 2010 5:49 am
Opening performance
performance | Brandon LaBelle – Q&A
打破界限重新制定形與像的哲學, 觀眾藉由創作者預錄的問答對談進一步的了解作者對於聲音的看法且作者運用文字作為媒介將觀眾帶入對話之中, 進而令觀者思考。 再這其中, 可以清楚的感受到人類對於習以為常的語言、文字、音樂…等等, 已經有了一定的想像與先入為主的思考; 正因如此, 這個表演有著令人重新思考回味聲音本質的魅力以及聽覺對於人的影響與特性。 聽覺 – >耳朵接收到的訊息 -> 聲音 <-> 大腦 -> 經過思考定義過的聲音可以是語言、噪音、旋律…等等。 耐人尋味吧！ 只能說人類是種愛好制定規則的生物, 就是因為對於許多事物有一定的看法與規則存在, 往往錯過許多更自然美妙的事物。語言是現今人類社會最直接的溝通！？ 這也許就是人類所謂的文明？
Deep Spaces | Paradiso
最令我印象深刻的是Materia Obscura、Still in Cosmos、Monolake Live Surround這三件作品。 Materia Obscura這個作品中, 彷彿經歷一段生命起源的見證, 漸進式的聲響以及影像不斷的堆疊, 顏色與破碎的堆疊畫面搭配沈重的聲響 – 儀式般的莊嚴, 是當晚所有表演中最能放鬆心情並且仔細觀察創作者所呈現的抽象畫面; 不同於Jürgen Reble與Thomas Köner的作品, Still in Cosmos有著探討聲音與影像極限的氛圍, 聲音與影像不斷快速並且閃爍的進入所有人的感官, 彷彿作品強行植入觀者的大腦一般, 然而最令人讚賞的是, 創作者運用自然的圖像配合破噪的聲響與節奏, 在流程與時間的配合上十分恰當, 我非常喜歡這件作品, 聲音與影像在速度達到某種程度的極限之後, [...]
Friday, February 26th, 2010 10:57 pm
As titles go, Deep Spaces is brilliantly evocative. Full of promises and mysteries to come. Kicking off the musical program is the collaboration between Keith Rowe, Kjell Bjørgeengen and the musical duo Streifenjunko. To put it bluntly: this is what Sonic Acts is all about. Collaboration…possibilities…strange beauty. Bringing the outer limits just a bit closer [...]
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Friday, February 26th, 2010 10:19 pm
I just visited an interesting panel on the Sonic Acts 2010 Conference called The Poetics of Hybrid Space.
When over here at The Mobile City we talk about Hybrid Space, we usually refer to the work of Adriana de Souza e Silva who in several articles has convincingly argued against the dichotomy between physical or [...]
Friday, February 26th, 2010 3:16 pm
De Balie, fridaymorning. A brilliant speaker in a full auditorium. High expectations soar. The room buzzing. Then it falls quiet. DeKerckhove begins. We travel through time. The history of human medial experience in a nutshell: 300 generations ago writing was developed. 35 generations ago: printing. Photography 5. Wireless technologies not even one.
Images of the body [...]
Friday, February 26th, 2010 10:26 am
Sven Schlijper | Kindamuzik
De dertiende editie van de Sonic Acts conferentie en het bijbehorende festival staat in het teken van de ruimtelijkheid in de kunst(en); in het bijzonder de filmische en geluidskunst. Hoe definieert ruimte en ruimtelijkheid een kunstwerk? Wat ervaart een toeschouwer of luisteraar vis-a-vis ruimte en ruimtelijkheid? Welke rol spelen technologische ontwikkelingen hierin? [...]
Read more...Thursday, February 25th, 2010 11:10 pm
Following Hans Koch and Yutaka Makino’s presentations (see #1 for a report), the remaining talks of the STEIM Jamboree session in conjunction with the Sonic Acts 2010 festival focused on the themes of experimental arts curating, support, and facilities, as well as the financial issues of organisation through the examples of Birdcage (nomadic), Café Oto [...]
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NIMK. I’m late. Long corridor. Elevator. Empty exhibition space. Lost visitors. One drags a skateboard along. Blink’s beam traps him. Gilje’s space. It is huge. Bigger than the room. A humming void pulsates, expands, collapses. Lightning strikes. Retinal reset.
Next door Kirkegaard. A spotlight hits. The sound captured white. Sand? Bow your head. Inside the smallest [...]
Thursday, February 25th, 2010 9:31 pm
As a kick-off to the Sonic Acts festival of 2010, STEIM arranged a Jamboree session including talks on the two artists, Hans Koch and Yutaka Makino, engaging with theme of this year, The Poetics of Space. STEIM’s largest studio provided a setting for the listenership of researchers, professionals and those interested, with Koch and Makino [...]
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