Erik Smith at Errant Bodies

AABBCCDV (redux Berlin)

Exhibition by Erik Smith

Opening: Thursday, December 18, 2014 - 7 pm
Exhibition dates: Friday, December 19, 2014 - Wednesday, January 7, 2015, by appointment
Special presentation by invited guest Jeremiah Day on Wednesday, January 7, 2015 - 8 pm

Errant Bodies
Kollwitzstr. 97
10435 Berlin
www.errantbodies.org

AABBCCDV (redux Berlin) reprises a project created and first presented in Miami, FL (US) in 2012. Serving as the point of departure for the work was the then imminent demolition of a building that was home to several Miami arts organizations, among them DimensionsVariable (DV), an artist-run exhibition venue. DV had used the building for a number of years both for exhibitions and as an artist studio, but were ultimately forced to vacate the premises in 2012 to make way for new development. The demolition of the structure can be read as a marker for urban transformations in general, a process that is as much about speculative growth and renewal as it is one of negation and fragmentation. Such forces are also presently at work remaking Berlin, where rampant commercial and private development is quickly supplanting the city’s identity as an inexpensive haven for artist-run exhibition spaces and their practices, begging the question: What next?

Erik Smith is an American artist who has lived and worked in Berlin since 2003. In recent years, his work has revolved around a firsthand investigation of the built environment, involving the exploration, documentation and salvaging of various urban sites, and taking the form of installations, provisional excavations, or other modes of intervention. Exhibitions include Skulpturenpark_Berlin_Zentrum, DimensionsVariable, Miami (US), SculptureCenter, NYC, de Appel Center for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam (NL), Arsenal, Lausanne (CH). www.eriksmith.de.

STADT KLANG TEXT - Urban Sound Projects

STADT KLANG TEXT - Urban Sound Projects
Exhibition series: #5 of 5

Jacob Kierkegaard : Durch die Wand (2014)
Georg Klein : Ramallah Tours (2009)

Exhibition: December 10th - 14th, 2014, 16:00 - 20:00h
Discussion: Thursday, December 11th, 19h - with Prof. Kathrin Wildner and the artists

Errant Bodies
Kollwitzstrasse 97
10435 Berlin
http://errantbodies.org/StadtKlangText/stadtklangtext_5.html

Two projects dealing with the same topic – the border between Israel and Palestine – but in very different ways. In the discussion evening the urban ethnologist Prof. Kathrin Wildner will ask the artists about their concepts, the methods of realization, and the effectiveness of sound art in public space.

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The exhibition and discussion series Stadt als Klangtext introduces ten artistic positions by sound artists working with urban space. The series aims to consider how auditory experience and sonic work may operate to create a sense of civic engagement, spaces of mutuality, and forms of interruption onto the urban scene. Each exhibition consists of two artists presenting one work, and integrates a discussion evening led by an invited academic and open to the public.

The School of Public Life - launch

We are pleased to celebrate the release of:

The School of Public Life
by Fred Dewey

Please join us for drinks, and a reading by the author

Wednesday, November 26th, 2014 - 8pm

Errant Bodies
Kollwitzstrasse 97
10435 Berlin
www.errantbodies.org

Drawing on two decades of interventions in politics and culture, Fred Dewey's The School of Public Life records the author's efforts to revive and rethink public space from Los Angeles to Berlin and beyond. Drawing on manifestoes, lectures, letters, and experimental texts, the book chronicles one person's efforts to secure a space for public reality, culture, appearance, and power. From helping to found neighborhood councils in Los Angeles to directing Beyond Baroque, a public space for poetry, art, sound work, publishing, and debate, featuring discussions of the 1992 L.A. riots, Black Mountain College, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Dewey recounts a lived experience of self-government face to face with the rise of manufactured reality and an unknown political history. How can we answer the falsehoods of economics, parties, and a new slavery of constructed powerlessness? Working from the examples of Hannah Arendt, poet Charles Olson, writer John Berger, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., and others, Dewey's account of life experiences and thinking, public gesture proposes a new kind of school, one powerful enough to address all our conditions - a school for the people and their life.

The School of Public Life is the fourth issue of the new book series Doormats published by Errant Bodies Press. The series aims at contributing to the now, addressing issues that are present and that demand presence.

Fred Dewey is a writer, teacher, editor/publisher, curator, and co-founder of the Neighborhood Councils Movement in Los Angeles. He directed Beyond Baroque Literary / Arts Center in Los Angeles from 1995-2010 and has edited, published, and designed twenty books and anthologies, featuring work by Ammiel Alcalay, Simone Forti, Jean-Luc Godard, Daniel Berrigan, Abdellatif Laabi, Jack Hirschman, Christoph Draeger, Ed Ruscha, Diane di Prima, and more. His writing has appeared in the anthologies Architecture of Fear (Princeton Architecture), Most Art Sucks (Smart Art), Cork Caucus, and in magazines and newspapers such as the Neighborhood Councils Movement Newsletter, the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest, New Statesman, LA Weekly, LA Times, Metropolis, Venice Beachhead, LA Forum for Architecture & Urban Design, and Coagula. Dewey has performed with the dancers and artists Simone Forti and Jeremiah Day at London’s ICA, New York’s Ludlow 38, and Berlin’s Errant Bodies. He teaches in Berlin and in the graduate fine art program at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California.

Chris Heenan – Michael Vorfeld / FUNKLOCH

Chris Heenan – Michael Vorfeld
FUNKLOCH
A performance – installation for Light Bulbs, Analog Synthesizer and Radios

Saturday, November 15, 2014
17 – 20 h (ongoing): performance – installation
21 h: concert together with Ute Wassermann (voice)

Sunday, November 16, 2014
17 – 20 h (ongoing): performance - installation
21 h: concert together with Franziska Baumann (voice)

at
Errant Bodies
Kollwitzstr. 97
10435 Berlin
www.errantbodies.org

performance – installation: free, concert: 5 – 8 Euro

kindly supported by inm

FUNKLOCH is a multi-hour performative sound and light installation with live radio broadcast. The "Instrumentarium" is arranged around the space consisting of assorted light bulbs with different switching elements and an analog synthesizer. The result is a "feed-back" situation, in which the light and the sound mutually influence and shape one another. The sounds are also transmitted through the space and picked up by radios distributed throughout the space. Two vocalists, Ute Wassermann and Franziska Baumann, are invited to perform in and with the concert-installation.

FUNKLOCH ist eine mehrstündige, konzertante Klang- und Lichtinstallation mit live Radioübertragung. Als räumlich angeordnetes Instrumentarium dient ein Set-Up unterschiedlicher Glühlampen mit verschiedenen Schaltelementen sowie ein Analog-Synthesizer. Es entsteht eine „Feed-Back-Situation“, bei der das Licht den Klang und umgekehrt der Klang das Licht beeinflusst und gestaltet. Übertragen wird das gesamte musikalische Geschehen durch ebenfalls im Raum verteilte Radiogeräte. Kontrastierend sind zwei Vokalistinnen (Ute Wassermann und Franziska Baumann) eingeladen innerhalb und mit der Konzert-Installation zu spielen.

Stadt als Klangtext - Urban Sound Projects

Stadt als Klangtext - Urban Sound Projects
Exhibition series: #4 of 5

Serge Baghdassarians/Boris Baltschun
Kirsten Reese

Exhibition: November 6th - 9th, 16:00 - 20:00h
Talk / Discussion: Thursday,  November 6th, 19:00h
with Prof. Sabine Sanio and the artists

Errant Bodies
Kollwitzstrasse 97
10435 Berlin
www.errantbodies.org/stadtklangtext.html

The exhibition and discussion series Stadt als Klangtext introduces ten artistic positions by sound artists working with urban space. The series aims to consider how auditory experience and sonic work may operate to create a sense of civic engagement, spaces of mutuality, and forms of interruption onto the urban scene. Each exhibition consists of two artists presenting one work, and integrates a discussion evening led by an invited academic and open to the public.

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Serge Baghdassarians/Boris Baltschun, "tuning" /
installation for video, balloon, animal voice

Kirsten Reese, "no voice audible but that of the sea on the far side" /
four channel sound installation with fish sounds and synthesized sound

Stadt als Klangtext - Urban Sound Projects

Stadt als Klangtext - Urban Sound Projects
Exhibition series: #3 of 5

Åsa Stjerna, "Currents"
Hanna Hartman, "Early Warning"

Exhibition: October 9th - 12th, 16:00 - 20:00h
Talk / Discussion: Thursday, October 9th, 19:00h
with Fabian Czolbe and the artists

Errant Bodies
Kollwitzstrasse 97
10435 Berlin
www.errantbodies.org/stadtklangtext.html

The exhibition and discussion series Stadt als Klangtext introduces ten artistic positions by sound artists working with urban space. The series aims to consider how auditory experience and sonic work may operate to create a sense of civic engagement, spaces of mutuality, and forms of interruption onto the urban scene. Each exhibition consists of two artists presenting one work, and integrates a discussion evening led by an invited academic and open to the public.

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Åsa Stjerna, “Currents“ /
Documentation of a site-specific sound installation and sonification presented in the spacious glass foyer at the new opera building in Oslo 2011. The sound work was based on measurement data from a scientific research project in which the North-Atlantic Current in the North Sea was measured to gain knowledge on the effects of global warming. During the period of the exhibition, these measurement data were transferred in real-time and distributed over 18 loudspeakers in the glass foyer, transformed into an artistic-sonic experience in public space.

Hanna Hartman, “Early Warning" /
a sound installation

W. Mark Sutherland, Alessandra Eramo and Tomomi Adachi

ERRANT VOICES
Sound poetry night with W. Mark Sutherland, Alessandra Eramo and Tomomi Adachi

September 17th (wed) 2014
20.00 start

Errant Bodies
Kollwitzstrasse 97
10435 Berlin
http://errantbodiesspace.blogspot.de

Solos and collaborative sound poetry performance by Canadian sound poet W. Mark Sutherland with two Berlin-based sound poets/voice artists, Alessandra Eramo and Tomomi Adachi

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W. Mark Sutherland is a Canadian intermedia artist. His aesthetic practice is a hybrid that pivots on the creation of work blurring the borders between poetry, visual art, music and performance art. He is a member of the Board of Directors for Musicworks magazine (www.musicworks.ca) and editorial correspondent for Rampike magazine (www.uwindsor.ca/rampike). A very brief selection of Sutherland's recent public performances includes THEWORDMUSIC Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland (2006), Voice ++ Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada (2007), Yuxtaposiciones Festival, Madrid, Spain (2008), 3durch3, Wilhelmspalais, Stuttgart, Germany (2010) and 100 Jahre Konkrete Kunst, Art Rehau, Rehau, Germany (2010), Language To Cover A Wall, SUNY, Buffalo, USA (2011) and Symposium on Voice, Agency and Improvisation, MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Canada (2014).
www.wmarksutherland.com

Alessandra Eramo is a vocalist, sound artist, composer and performer. Her works take on hybrid forms between electroacoustic music and performance art through the conjunction of voice, sound, language, noise, field recording, drawing, gesture and text . Gaining international recognition, she exhibited and performed in festivals, galleries, theatres, artist-run centers and radios such as Deutschlandradio Kultur, Roulette New York, Galerie Haus am Lützowplatz Berlin, Liverpool Biennial 2012, Sonic Circuits Festival Washington DC. In 2011 she exhibited at the "Italian Pavilion in the World" of the 54th Venice Biennale, invited by the Italian Culture Institute of Stuttgart. Grants and residencies include: Correnti Seduttive Taranto, Harvestworks New York, Hotel Pupik Austria, Senat Berlin International Cultural Exchange. Her music was released a.o. on Corvo Records and Audition Records.
www.ezramo.com

Tomomi Adachi is a performer/composer, sound poet, instrument builder and visual artist. Known for his versatile style, he has performed his own voice and electronics pieces, site-specific compositions, choir pieces for untrained musicians, improvised music and contemporary music in all over the world including Tate Modern, Maerzmusik, Centre Pompidou, Poesiefestival Berlin, Merkin Hall, Tempelhof Airfield, STEIM and Walker Art Center with a wide range of materials; even brainwave, artificial satellite and paranormal phenomenas. As the only Japanese performer of sound poetry, he performed Kurt Schwitters' "Ursonate" as a Japan premiere in 1996 and has introduced Japanese sound poetry tradition. CDs include the solo album from Tzadik, Omegapoint and naya records. He was a guest of the Artists-in-Berlin Program of the DAAD for 2012.
http://www.adachitomomi.com

Jean-Luc Guionnet

French musician/visual artist Jean-Luc Guionnet presents a selection of audio-visual works at Errant Bodies project space from Wednesday, September 10th - Saturday, September 13h. The exhibition fits within a larger program of Guionnet in Berlin (September 8th - 14th), including concerts, lectures, performances, and film screenings done by or otherwise curated by Jean-Luc.

OPENING
Wednesday, September 10th: 18h-20h30

Gallery hours:
September 11th - September 13th: 18h-20h

Errant Bodies
Kollwitzstrasse 97
10435 Berlin

All exhibition evenings are followed by evening events in Ausland (Lychener str 60, Prenzlauer Berg, 15 minutes walking from Errant Bodies)
http://www.ausland-berlin.de/ausland-presents-jeanluc-guionnet-berlin

My musical work subdivides itself into as many ways as occasions arise for me to think and act with sound and images. Those occasions have always to do with a strong meeting with an outside element : an instrument (saxophone/organ), a theoretical idea (what is "rumour"?), and mainly a collaborating friend (André Almuro, Éric Cordier, Éric La Casa, Pascal Battus, Caroline Pouzolles, Franck Gourdien, Taku Unami, Seijiro Murayama, Lotus Eddé Khouri) ... There then follows a collection of themes which, in turn, influence the evolution of the musical work and define the direction of meetings to come : the thickness of the air, the pidgin, the musical instrument considered as affective automaton, listening and seeing dark unto themself, the algebra of and in hearing, sound as a signature of space, signature of objects, signature of what it is not... and light ? The fact that French uses the same word – le temps – for time and weather, propagation and spread of forms in time etc. Music, drawing, video are, then, a way to test reality. Conversely, it’s a test whose experience defines a new distribution of the whole body by artificially localizing it in an unknown and purely physical environment, all the while being able to think, count, make relations or understand places, and so forth. The emotion I look for in music is made out of all these strata and the sliding of one over the other during the act of perceiving.
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Stadt als Klangtext - Urban Sound Projects

Stadt als Klangtext - Urban Sound Projects
Exhibition series: #2 of 5

Mario Asef, "Yopito Concert"
Gilles Aubry, "Notes via a Soundscape of Bollywood"

Thursday, September 4th, 2014
Screening & discussion with Bettina Wackernagel and the artists
19:00 opening / 19:30 (sharp) screening/diffusion of the works and discussion

Errant Bodies
Kollwitzstrasse 97
10435 Berlin
www.errantbodies.org/stadtklangtext.html

The exhibition is on view from September 3th - 7th, 16:00 - 20:00h

The exhibition and discussion series Stadt als Klangtext introduces ten artistic positions by sound artists working with urban space. The series aims to consider how auditory experience and sonic work may operate to create a sense of civic engagement, spaces of mutuality, and forms of interruption onto the urban scene. Each exhibition consists of two artists presenting one work, and integrates a discussion evening led by an invited academic and open to the public.

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Mario Asef, "Yopito Concert"
On January 20, 2005 Yomango and Mario Asef organized, composed, and directed a shopping mall alarm concert at the Potsdamer Platz Arkaden shopping mall in Berlin.
For this event 25 Yopito players were invited to sound the alarms of various stores by passing through their security detection systems with magnetic anti-theft strips. The alarms were set off according to a pre-arranged composition.

Gilles Aubry, "Notes via a Soundscape of Bollywood"
During two months in 2013 Aubry has recorded people at work in the film industry in Madha, a Mumbai neighborhood known as the “B-side” of Bollywood. His recordings attest of the materiality of the film-production process, revealing voices, musics, spaces, technology and special FX combined with sounds from the Madha neighborhood and its population. While Hindi movies often mirror the tensions resulting from the effects of globalization on traditional societies, the Bollywood dream-factory itself appears in this documentation as a precarious environment. The author’s own presence as an observer questioning a (non-Western) “developing” society is reflected through references to Pier-Paolo Pasolini's 1969 film-essay “Notes towards a film about India”.

Stadt als Klangtext has received support from the Bezirksamt Pankow Cultural Fund.
Organised by Georg Klein, Antje Vowinckel, Mario Asef, Brandon LaBelle.

Ernesto Estrella

Ernesto Estrella
The Insider. Episode I: “Dance of the Unreadable”

Saturday, August 30th, 7:30pm open doors, show starts at 8pm (sharp)
*Materials related to the creation of The Insider series will be displayed in the gallery.

Errant Bodies
Kollwitzstrasse 97
10435 Berlin
www.errantbodies.org

The Insider (a voice series)
Enter the mind of a retired customs officer who is being haunted by the memories of those that were passing by in front of him while he was on duty. A trip that will take you from the vault of popular cultures, to the disintegration of languages, and into the precious details of personal stories. Inner borders are dissolved, and fragility becomes our new precision. Sensitive and voracious, “The Insider” intervenes into the cultural DNA of our times and presents us with a nomadic identity faithful to the multiple pulse of our daily human being.

Ernesto Estrella is poet, musician, and educator born in Granada who has lived in New York since 2000. Between 2007 and 2011 he was a professor of Contemporary Poetry at Yale University, and since 2012 he has turned to Berlin as a second base for his artistic and academic projects. As a musician, he concentrates on the voice’s potential to explore the poetic process through sound. In this vein, he has created a wide array of pieces for performances that have been presented at international festivals in Argentina, Uruguay, Austria, Germany, Croatia, Russia, Finland, Latvia and the U.S. He is part of the international quartet Berlin Sound Poets Quoi Tête, and has also been teaching seminars on “Ethics, Politics, and Performativity of the Poem” at Potsdam University.

http://www.grownewears.com/

Stadt als Klangtext - Urban Sound Projects

Stadt als Klangtext - Urban Sound Projects
Exhibition series: #1 of 5

Antje Vowinckel, "Folgen Sie mir pausenlos"
Brandon LaBelle, "Rehearsal for a People's Microphone"

Opening: Wednesday, August 6th, 19:00h
Talk / Discussion: Thursday, August 7th, 19:00h with Marcus Gammel and the artists
Exhibition Hours: August 7th - 10th, 16:00 - 20:00h

Errant Bodies
Kollwitzstrasse 97
10435 Berlin
www.errantbodies.org/stadtklangtext.html

The exhibition and discussion series Stadt als Klangtext introduces ten artistic positions by sound artists working with urban space. The series aims to consider how auditory experience and sonic work may operate to create a sense of civic engagement, spaces of mutuality, and forms of interruption onto the urban scene. Each exhibition consists of two artists presenting one work, and integrates a discussion evening led by an invited academic and open to the public.

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Antje Vowinckel, "Folgen Sie mir pausenlos" -
Ein Speakview mit automatischen Sprechern
Neun Personen gehen über den ehemaligen Berliner Flughafen Tempelhof, mit Headset-Mikros und Audioguides ausgestattet. Dabei sprechen sie ohne Unterbrechung. Sie gehen über Lan­depisten, Wiesen und schließlich in den Hangar 6. Sprechend "filmen" sie ihren Weg ab, zerle­gen ihn in einzelne Bilder. Verschiedene Perspektiven überlagern sich, es entsteht eine Art akustisches Schielen. Der Raum wird neu konstruiert und aus der realen Landschaft wird eine Sprechlandschaft. Produktion: DeutschlandRadio 2012.

Antje Vowinckel ist eine mehrfach ausgezeichnete Radiokünstlerin, Klangkünstlerin, Regisseurin und Performerin in Berlin. Schwerpunkte ihrer Arbeit sind die musikalischen Aspekte von Sprache z.B. in Kompositionen mit Sprachimprovisationen und Dialekten sowie musikalische Performances mit Bildern und Objekten. Studium Literatur und Musik. (Querflöte/Klavier). Anschließend Promotion (“Collagen im Hörspiel. Die Entwicklung einer radiophonen Kunst”) und Rundfunkvolontariat. Ein Jahr Dramaturgin beim SWR. Ab 1994 eigene Hörspiele, Radio-Features, Klangkompositionen und literarische Regie für SWR, BR, WDR, DRadio, NDR, HR. Ihr Stück “Call me Yesterday” wurde in 16 Ländern gesendet und vorgestellt.

Artist and writer Brandon LaBelle presents "Rehearsal for a People's Microphone," a work originally developed as a public intervention in the city of Sherbrooke, Quebec, in 2013. Consisting of a sound system installed in the back of a 1950s pick up truck, the work circulated through the city of Sherbrooke for a two-week period. The project is based on ideas of civic culture and the crowd, specifically appropriating the device of a people's microphone to stage a form of public speech – a rehearsal for a future manifestation. For the presentation at Errant Bodies, LaBelle installs the original audio work, alongside documents and artifacts related to the search for public life.

Brandon LaBelle is an artist and writer working with sound culture, voice, and questions of agency. He develops and presents artistic projects and performances within a range of international contexts, often working collaboratively and in public. Recent projects include "Civic Center", La Casa Encendida, Madrid, "Sixth Housing Estate", South London Gallery, London, and "Hobo College", Marrakech Biennial parallel project. He is the author of Diary of an Imaginary Egyptian (2012), Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life (2010) and Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art (2006). He is the editor of Errant Bodies Press and Professor at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Norway.

Stadt als Klangtext has received support from the Bezirksamt Pankow Cultural Fund.

Michael Vorfeld / Boris & Yumiko Hegenbart

TWO SCREENINGS OF:

VORFELD’S SLIDE SHOW (UA)
FOR 11 SLIDE PROJECTORS AND 489 SLIDES

MICHAEL VORFELD: VISUALS AND SOUNDS

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ILLUSTRATION & CLOUDS (UA)

YUMIKO HEGENBART-MATSUI: SLOW ANIMATION
BORIS HEGENBART: CLOUD BLOCKS

Saturday, July 19, 2014

First Screening of both pieces at 21:30h
(the first screening will start promptly at 21:30)

Second Screening of both pieces at 22:30h
(the second screening will start promptly at 22:30)

Errant Bodies
Kollwitzstr. 97
10435 Berlin
http://errantbodies.org/


http://www.vorfeld.org
http://www.hegenbart-matsui.com
http://www.soundblocks.de

Acousmatic Lecture - Federico Geller

Federico Geller
The Living Matter of History

the first Acousmatic Lecture

Thursday, July 10th from 10 - 11pm

Errant Bodies
Kollwitzstrasse 97
10435 Berlin
www.errantbodies.org

We are the living matter of history, traveling trough different scales of reality. Our materiality, our own bodies, far away from the dominant cybernetic representations of macromolecular machines, from the genetic programming of psychological and social levels, are open to new possibilities, with multiple spaces for chaos and the creation of order. We will take a look at the role of chance in our ontogeny, which makes that for the same initial situation more than one phenotipic output is possible: that is developmental noise, a dimension of phenomena that helps us to understand that the differences between organisms can not only be explained only in terms of genetic and environmental variations. Being conscious of the multiple interactions between macro and micro levels, our subjectivities may change and help us to think, move, and experience our bodies differently, to create a more hopeful relationship with nature.

Federico Geller studied and taught Biologic Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires. He is a member of “Abriendo Caminos/La comunitaria TV”, a collective which endeavours to create communication tools (video, interventions, graphic material) for grass-roots political work and cojuncture situations. He also works in “Jeta Ka’i”, a team that aims to popularise biological knowledge and to discuss its technological applications and social consequences. Some of his designs and drawings have been shown in ExArgentina/La Normalidad (Berlin-Köln, Buenos Aires 2003-2006), The Future of Reciprocal Readymade (New York 2005), Kollektive Kreativität (Kassel 2005), Pay Attention to Ham (Köln 2008), Que Viva la Diversidad (Santa Fe, 2010),Truth Is Concrete/Steirischer Herbst (Graz 2012). Geller lives in Buenos Aires and Berlin.

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The Acousmatic Lectures are a series of discursive auditory experiences based on the Pythagorean acousmatic model, a mode of presentation in which the orator is hidden from the public. Acousmatic presentation encourages both orator and listeners to focus exclusively on the spoken word, its temperament, tone, and stimulus, without the visual aid of supplementary images or the body language of the speaker. For this series of lectures, all visual clues provided by the speaker’s facial and bodily expressions, which are capable of influencing the reception of the information presented, are to remain hidden. Nonetheless, the physical presence of the speaker will still be made evident through the speaker’s voice, all acoustical aspects, and their dissemination into the space surrounding him/her. In so doing, the dialectical confrontation between abstract and sensorial information is underscored. Acousmatic Lectures, currently in development, is a program that invites professionals working within an artistic discipline or method to give an acousmatic account of their central topic of research.

Concept and organisation by Mario Asef for Errant Bodies Group, Berlin.

Tiago Cutileiro

Tiago Cutileiro
"Time Flies"
a presentation on non-narrative music, language, and time

Monday, July 7th - 7pm

Errant Bodies
Kollwitzstrasse 97
10435 Berlin
www.errantbodies.org

with:
Biliana Voutchkova - violin
Johnny Chang - viola
Catherine Lamb - viola
Marta Navarro - cello

Tiago Cutileiro concluded recently his PhD in Music and Musicology on the concept of Opera and Non-Narrative Music. Using different means like sung voice, spoken voice, and video projected text, his research tries to find points of connection between a music that thoroughly avoids a paradigm of quasi-linguistic articulation, on one side, and the paradoxical use of text within that same music, on the other. His work includes instrumental music (chamber and orchestral; with or without electronics), electronic music, sound installations, and music for theatre and film ( http://thegiveups.wordpress.com/ ).

Korhan Erel and Antje Vowinckel - Turkish Thresholds

Dear friends and colleagues,

on Sunday June, 29th, 17.00 Korhan Erel and Antje Vowinckel present a sound art program at

Errant Bodies
Kollwitzstr. 97
10435 Berlin
www.errantbodies.org

1 - Novel in glass. Turkish sound vitrines based on motifs by Orhan Pamuk. By Antje Vowinckel, Produktion HR/SWR 2014, 54 minutes
2 - The Threshold. Film by Fabian Astore (Sound design Korhan Erel), (Joint winner of the Blake Prize 2012), 7 minutes
3 - Improvisation Korhan Erel, computer and controllers, Antje Vowinckel, organ and objects, 15 minutes

Parallel to his novel "The Museum of Innocence" Orhan Pamuk had built a museum of the same title in Istanbul, assembling objects that play a role in the novel. In more than 80 vitrines the objects correspond in a new way and convey the zeitgeist of the western orientated upper class in Istanbul's 70s. Commissioned by HR and SWR, Antje Vowinckel transformed the idea of the museum into acoustic images, using glass
resonances as an acoustic metaphor for the vitrines.

The Threshold
Sitting at the threshold, the presence of childhood innocence renders complex boundaries to a moment of spiritual elevation. A video recorded serendipitously in Istanbul, Turkey in January 2012.

www.korhanerel.com
www.antjevowinckel.de

The Stranger that is next to me

The Stranger that is next to me

A collection of audio works from practitioners around the world concerned with and focused on The Stranger ....

that is over there, that is right in front, that is moving away, that is fast approaching, at the next table, sitting across, staring into space, with nothing to do, that brushes passed, or that bumps into me, outside, on the beach, that interrupts, and that suddenly lends a hand, as the embodiment of city life, that I cannot overlook, whose fortune is to remain on the periphery, who dislikes being a stranger, riding his bike, that stops to look into the window, on her phone, that is no one and everywhere, that I do not know nor ever will, whose eyes never stop moving, that smiles at us or that seems threatening, that loves to sing in public, without a home, and that I wish to meet, that I overhear, and as a question of community.

Saturday, June 14th, 6 - 11pm / audio diffusion

Errant Bodies
Kollwitzstrasse 97
10435 Berlin

Organized by Brandon LaBelle in collaboration with Osso, Lisbon
http://www.osso.pt/en/

Including works by:

Francisco Janes
Salvatore Frega
Iride Project - Massimo Davi & Monica Miuccio
Juan Carlos Vásquez
Kevin Logan
Philip Mantione
Mario Lautier Vella
Junhong Lim
Marcelo Wasem
D. Burke Mahoney
Sol Rezza
GX Jupitter-Larsen
Les Superlanguage
Osvaldo Cibils
Yuri Sousa Lopes Pereira
Damir Kustic
Jan van den Dobbelsteen
Brane Zorman
Gil Trythall
John Tenney
Claudio Parodi
Una Lee
Philip Mantione
Sandrine Deumier and Alx P.op
Kadri Laanes
Nichola Scrutton
Luigi Morleo
Radio Approxim
Ashley Fu-Tsun Wang
Marco Tentori
Mari Ohno
Balam Ronan
Pedro Albuquerque de Araujo
Kasper Vang & Jan Høgh Stricker
Peter Barnard
Diana Combo
MUfi.re
Ricardo Huisman
Simon Serc/Pharmafabrik
Bandum
Eric Boivin
Taina Riikonen
Elisabetta Senesi
David Schafer
Paul Collins
Peter Lenaerts
James Andean
Varkenshond
GJ
Raviv Ganchrow
Renata Roman
Richard Crow & Lucia Farinati
Raquel Stolf
Toni Dimitrov
Lin Culbertson
Aaron Rosenblum
Fernando Fadigas
Milos & Slavica
Ricardo Paraíso Silvestre
John F. Barber
David Berlin
Mohammad Reza Taherkhani
Basil Athanasiadis

Alessandra Eramo

Alessandra Eramo
MUSICA FUTURISTA: THE ART OF NOISES
"ROARS_BANGS_BOOMS" Variation for Voice, Gesture and Drawings

Opening and Live-Performance Saturday, 3 May 2014, 19:30
Exhibition: 4 – 11 May 2014
Gallery hours: by appointment (write to eb@errantbodies.org)

Errant Bodies
Kollwitzstrasse 97
10435 Berlin
www.errantbodies.org

"The variety of noises is infinite. If today, when we have perhaps a thousand different machines, we can distinguish a thousand different noises - tomorrow, as new machines multiply, we will be able to distinguish ten, twenty, or thirty thousand different noises, not merely in a simply imitative way, but to combine them according to our imagination."
from "The Art of Noises" Luigi Russolo, 1913

101 years later, Italian/German sound artist and vocalist Alessandra Eramo interprets the Futurist Music Manifesto “The Art of Noises” of Luigi Russolo, using the human voice. Starting in 2013, the performance is based on Russolo's statement that the sonic palette of noises, generated by machines and the urban soundscape requires a new approach to musical instrumentation and composition. Therefore noise not only becomes a Leitmotiv in music but it also turns into musical material itself. The list of words that recall different sounds - such as thunder, whistles, roars, booms, grumbles, snorts - is part of the Futurist manifesto. These "onomatopoeic" words are the origin of the performance project “ROARS_BANGS_BOOMS” for which Alessandra Eramo wrote 7 variations for voice.

At Errant Bodies she will present the Variation #4: She exhibits her large-format drawings as graphic transcriptions of the onomatopoeic words that in a performance she will interpret with her body and voice.

Project's website: http://ezramo.com/works/musicafuturista/picture.html

Alessandra Eramo is a musician and artist working with extended vocal techniques, field recording, noise, sound and visual poetry. In the past ten years she presented her live-performances, compositions, videos and installations at numerous exhibitions, festivals and events in Europe, USA and Canada including: Galerie Haus am Lützowplatz Berlin, Padiglione Italia nel Mondo - 54th Venice Biennale, Liverpool Biennial 2012, Harvestworks New York, Lyd & Litteratur Festival Aarhus 2012, Sonic Circuits Festival 2011 Washington DC. Collaborations with performers, poets, improvisors and composers include: Gino Robair, Ingrid Schmoliner, Tomomi Adachi, Marta Zapparoli, Seiji Morimoto, Steven J. Fowler, Doug Van Nort. She was trained in classical singing, piano, music theory since an early age. She's graduated with honors in visual art, experimental music and performance art in Milan, Stuttgart and Venice. In 2010 she co-founded "Corvo Records. Vinyl and Sound Art Production". She lives in Berlin.

www.ezramo.com

Johnny Herbert

Johnny Herbert
performance / presentation

Wednesday, April 16th, 2014 - 7:30pm

Errant Bodies
Kollwitzstrasse 97
10435 Berlin
www.errantbodies.org

I have most recently been working with ideas of audienceship in conjunction with notions of sympathetic resonance and empathetic feedback loops. At Errant Bodies, returning to some conceptions of public address systems, I will mix in ideas of sound absorption and diffusion, experimenting with polyrhythms of atmosphere and amplified talk in doing so.

Johnny works in Bergen, Norway having studied for free at the Bergen Academy for Art and Design. He previously studied music composition in England and Germany.

Konzert Minimal / Martijn Tellinga

Konzert Minimal
plays Martijn Tellinga

11th - 15th February, Tuesday to Saturday
16:00 - 21:00 Daily

_during, lasting...
exhibition piece_

Errant Bodies
Kollwitzstrasse 97
10435 Berlin

5 consecutive days
5 hours: 16 - 21h
5 players enter the gallery space daily for one hour.
(unannounced. un_co-ordinated.)

audience: free.

Martijn Tellinga
http://www.martijntellinga.nl/

Errant Bodies project space
http://errantbodiesspace.blogspot.de/

Konzert Minimal:
Lucio Capece
Johnny Chang
Bryan Eubanks
Hannes Lingens
Koen Nutters
http://www.Konzert-Minimal-Berlin.tk/

Hannes Lingens - Four Pieces for Quintet

Hannes Lingens - Four Pieces for Quintet
Download and Print release (insub.)

Saturday, February 8th, 7pm

Errant Bodies
Kollwitzstrasse 97
10435 Berlin

Johnny Chang - viola
Hannes Lingens - accordion
Koen Nutters - double bass
Derek Shirley - double bass
Michael Thieke - clarinet

The Five Pieces for Quintet (four of which are represented on this release) are both a visual work and a suite of minimalistic compositions. Graphic systems to be interpreted as musical scores, with colors representing pitch regions. Five floating chords, static on first sight, but full of detailed inside movement. Exact tuning and rhythm are left to the decisions of the players, which guarantees each perfomance to be unique and results in a richness of microtonal phaenomena.

My pieces evoke the idea of a system. I like the thought that someone could find these images and, assuming a certain logic behind them, try to find out what they mean. This someone might come up with a completely different result from our realization of the scores. If music is about communication, then maybe these pieces are about language.

The release comes in the shape of a paperback-sized screenprinted jacket containing an A3 poster with prints of the scores and accompanying texts.

hanneslingens.de
insub.org

reviews:
http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2013/12/hannes-lingens/
http://olewnick.blogspot.de/2013/12/insub-sub-label-of-insubordinations-has.html

Unsound

Unsound

Boris Baltschun & Serge Baghdassarians
Georg Klein
Brandon LaBelle
Jeremy Woodruff

Exhibition:
January 27th - February 2nd, 2014

Opening:
Saturday, January 25th, 2014, 18.00

Gallery Hours:
January 27th - February 2nd, 2014
13.00 - 17.00

Errant Bodies
Kollwitzstrasse 97
10435 Berlin
www.errantbodies.org

Silence can be appreciated as the pre-condition for a sounded event – an empty room, a blank page, an open horizon allowing for the sudden movements of sonic energy. Silence never goes away, instead it is a shadow that follows, a double that supports as well as haunts the body of sound. Following such themes, the exhibition brings together works that take us closer to silence, materializing its underheard presence and appropriating it through states of observation. Silence is captured, as the unconscious of sound – the unsound that surrounds and ghosts listening.

Unsound is part of Transmediale and CTM Vorspiel 2014.

Errant Bodies is a project space dedicated to experimental work in sound, including performance, fieldwork, voice and spatial practices. Through residencies, workshops, events and exhibitions, Errant Bodies emphasizes an engagement with process and dialogue, encouraging a dynamic and diverse approach to the sound arts. As a project space, it also intends to foster social and public activities, contributing to the creative scene in Berlin and its artistic communities. It is managed and developed through its working group: Gilles Aubry, Serge Baghdassarians, Ylva Bentancor, Anke Eckardt, Georg Klein, Brandon LaBelle, Max Schneider, Antje Vowinkel, Jeremy Woodruff.