Errant Bodies announces Errant Sound

The Errant Bodies project space is operating under a new name - Errant Sound. You can find our activities here: https://errantsound.wordpress.com

Map Series / Ana Mendes

Map Series

Ana Mendes

Saturday, 28th May / 18:00h

Errant Bodies

Kollwitzstrasse 97

10435 Berlin

www.errantbodies.org

‘Map Series’ is a performance-installation on colonialism, in which the artist considers her identity as a Portuguese citizen facing a post-colonial context. In this performance-installation, Mendes stitches old paper maps of the former colonies stitches old paper maps of the former German colonies using a sewing machine. From Namibia to the Samoa islands, see the rise and fail of an empire. Part experiment, part musical composition, Map Series makes you to think: what is an empire today?

Concept, performance: Ana Mendes

Sound designer: Christina Shirley

The performance ‘Map Series happens in the frame of the Performing Arts Festival Berlin, 23-29th May, 2016. 

Tickets & Info available online

https://www.performingarts-festival.de/programm/produktionen/map_series_81/

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Ana Mendes is an artist and writer, whose work deals with issues of language, memory and identity.

Christina Shirley is a radio artist and sound designer, founder of the project ‘Plants and Empire’, also part of the collective ‘SissiFM’.

The Berlin Performing Arts Festival is organized by LAFT Berlin in cooperation with the performance venues HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Sophiensaele, Ballhaus Ost and Theaterdiscounter. The Berlin Performing Arts Festival organized by LAFT Berlin is supported by the State of Berlin - Senate Chancellery (Cultural Affairs) from funds of the European Fund for Regional Development (EFRE) within the program "Promoting the Innovation Potential in Culture II (INP II)".

https://www.performingarts-festival.de/programm/spielorte/#spielort_33

Jeremy Woodruff and Susanne Matsche - New recordings of India

Festival syllabaries: New recordings of India

Opening, Saturday 21.05 at 7pm 

Finissage, Friday 27.05 at 7pm

Errant Bodies

Kollwitzstrasse 97

10435 Berlin

www.errantbodies.org

An exhibition and presentation of sound and experience in Chennai, India from Jeremy Woodruff and Susanne Matsche, new works exhibited from Nakul Krishnamurthy, Sukanyan Sunthareswaran, and Zeeshan Nabi. 

Jeremy Woodruff and Susanne Matsché offer reflections on 20 months of living in India with sounds and images recorded there; how life and time is differently manifested with a series of festivals as markers of social life; how time flows differently through a round syllabary. 

Days after the Assembly Election in Tamil Nadu, work by representatives of a new generation of young Indian composers and artists will be presented, former students of the KM Music Conservatory, that each contend in different ways with the current political climate in India under the BJP government and in Tamil Nadu under the AIADMK.  Sounds of election booths from a few days ago, sounds of rickshaws, sounds of vendors and funeral processions are featured, among others. Jeremy Woodruff presents the collaborative blog: “Chennaisonic”

Lastly, “Ninnu-kori”, a transcription of eight versions of the same South Indian composition in Mohanam Raga will be premiered in an electronic version. A second graphic realisation shows the way some patterns of Tamil speech echo this particular raga.  

Admission free; donations welcome.

WUNDERBLOCK. Gespräche über Bilder

WUNDERBLOCK. Gespräche über Bilder

Wunderblock No. 21: Landscapes of Sound & Image
Mit fluctuating images. contemporary media art, Cornelia Lund & Holger Lund, zu Gast bei Errant Bodies – Projektraum für Klangkunst.
Moderation: Andreas Rauth

Freitag, 13. Mai 2016, 20.00 Uhr

Errant Bodies

Kollwitzstrasse 97

10435 Berlin

www.errantbodies.org

Unkostenbeitrag: 3,00 Euro

Die 2012 gegründete Veranstaltungsreihe WUNDERBLOCK. Gespräche über Bilder ist ein Diskussionsforum zu Formen und Funktionen von Bildern in Kunst und Gesellschaft. Vor dem Hintergrund einer Auffassung vom Menschen als homo pictor, als bildbegabtes Wesen, wird der Bildbegriff möglichst umfassend und quer zu allen Genres, Medien und Zeiten in seinen identitätsstiftenden, künstlerischen und gesellschaftlichen Dimensionen behandelt.

Am 13. Mai spricht Andreas Rauth mit Cornelia und Holger Lund über Theorie und Praxis des zeitgenössischen Feldes audiovisueller Kunstproduktion, der Landscapes of Sound & Image.

Mehr Informationen: http://www.jitter-magazin.de/wunderblock-no-21-landscapes-of-sound-image/

Pirate/Public #4

Pirate/Public: positions in contemporary radio art

Radio art by British artist Barry Bermange

Thursday, May 12th, 19:00

Errant Bodies

Kollwitzstrasse 97

10435 Berlin

The Dreams (1964, together with Deliah Derbyshire) 40’ 

Radioville. Metropolis London (1987) 43’

Moviola (2008) 45’ 

Introduction: Antje Vowinckel

Despite his extensive oeuvre of more than 40 radio art pieces he still seems to be a hidden hero. We will listen to 

The Dreams, one of the first pieces with an experimental use of speech fragments, Radioville. Metropolis London, 

an unusual city soundscape based on sounds of the London Tube and Moviola, based on sound bites of film reels 

processed in an old "moviola", a device for analogue film editing. (For these pieces no German is required)

Barry Bermange was born in London 1933, where he still lives. He developed his first radio pieces in the BBC Radiophonic 

workshop. His work became more and more musical and abstract. Many of his pathbreaking pieces were produced in Germany by WDR and SWR. Three times he was awarded with the renowned Karl-Sczuka-Preis for radio art.

Entrance: 5€/3€

Pirate/Public is a project by Antje Vowinckel and Serge Baghdassarians from Errant Bodies Sound Art Space, 

generously supported by the Pankow Bezirksamt Berlin.

Errant Bodies Sound Art Space / focusing on experimental work and research on sound through exhibition, 

performance, fieldwork, and text. The project space is organized by a working group consisting of Berlin-based artists, 

academics, curators, and writers. For more information contact: eb@errantbodies.org and 

http://errantbodies.org/soundartspace/piratepublic.html

Pirate/Public #3

Pirate/Public

: positions in contemporary radio art / Positionen aktueller Radiokunst

Thursday, May 5th, 19:00

Errant Bodies Sound Art Space

Kollwitzstrasse 97

10435 Berlin

www.errantbodies.org

A travers le savon - Extended translation with sound, image, gestures and smell - Performance by Ines Lechleitner

Ate feat. Ed D.: obey God - presented by Serge Baghdassarians and Boris Baltschun

Discussion with participants, moderation: Marcus Gammel

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In her lecture performance 'À travers le savon' Ines Lechleitner explores the everyday object of Die Seife, the soap, 

through smell, texture, repetition and associations. The process of metamorphosis began through the reading of 

Francis Ponge's book 'Le Savon' and his detailed descriptions and excessive treatment of the soap "…einem lächerlichen 

Gegenstand, der endlos schäumt." In the slide show Zitronen-Wal-Seife the soap becomes a lemon which becomes 

a whale in order to turn into a soap and disappear.

Serge Baghdassarians and Boris Baltschun present their latest radio piece Ate feat. Ed D.: obey God. It will be the 

premiere of the reworked English language version. Furthermore their installation Memory Palace will be on display 

in the basement space. Ate feat. Ed D.: obey God is a radio play based on a single sentence and it’s evanescent 

character. This character with a 4-letter name is brought to life with the help of soundtracks of video tutorials, 

religious movies, talkshows, an interview and a singing text-to-speech system. Memory Palace is an installation 

conceived for a 'movie theatre' where the usual screen is replaced by a circle of modified guitar tuners with led 

displays. In reference to a common mnemonic of the standard guitar tuning these tuners simultaneously symbolize 

the circular structure of the sentence and the recurring (and potentially endless) need to tune. 

Entrance: 5€/3€

Pirate/Public is a project by Antje Vowinckel and Serge Baghdassarians from Errant Bodies Sound Art Space,

generously supported by the Pankow Bezirksamt Berlin.

Errant Bodies Sound Art Space / focusing on experimental work and research on sound through exhibition,

performance, fieldwork, and text. The project space is organized by a working group consisting of Berlin-based artists,

academics, curators, and writers. For more information contact: eb@errantbodies.org and

http://errantbodies.org/soundartspace/piratepublic.html

Sonifikation in der Musik

Jour-Fixe: berliner gesellschaft für neue musik

Sonifikation in der Musik

15. April 2016 /  19.00 Uhr 

Errant Bodies Sound Art Space

Kollwitzstrasse 97

10435 Berlin

www.errantbodies.org

die Künstlerin Jutta Ravenna  gibt einen Überblick in die Methoden von Sonifikation  und stellt unterschiedliche künstlerische Ansätze vor. Präsentiert werden u.a. Arbeiten von Alvin Lucier, Florian Dombois, Julian Klein und Wanda Liz Diaz. 

Anschließend wird es bei einem Glas Wein die Möglichkeit zur Diskussion geben.

Sonifikation lässt sich herleiten von lat.: „sonus“:“Klang“ und „fikation“ von lat. „facere“: „machen“, also „zum Klang machen“. Der Begriff bezeichnet Verfahren zur Verklanglichung von Daten. 

Klangbeispiel Sonifikation:

Sonifikation des Kometen 76P/Chryumov-Gerasimenko, Manuel Senfft 2015

https://soundcloud.com/esaops/a-singing-comet

Rosetta’s Plasma Consortium (RPC) has uncovered a mysterious ‘song’ that Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is singing into space. The comet seems to be emitting a ‘song’ in the form of oscillations in the magnetic field in the comet’s environment. It is being sung at 40-50 millihertz, far below human hearing, which typically picks up sound between 20 Hz and 20 kHz. To make the music audible to the human ear, the frequencies have been increased in this recording.

Original data credit: ESA/Rosetta/RPC/RPC-MAG. This sonification of the RPC-Mag data was compiled by German composer Manuel Senfft (www.tagirijus.de).

- Welche innovativen Formen hat die kompositorische Auseinandersetzung mit Sonifikation in der Zeitgenössischen Musik hervorgebracht?

- Was fangen die Komponisten mit diesen neuen Möglichkeiten an? Wodurch werden Sonifikationsverfahren über Komponisten und Klangkünstler zum Artefakt?

Pirate/Public #2

Pirate/Public

: positions in contemporary radio art / Positionen aktueller Radiokunst

Friday, April 1st, 19:00h

- On Air / Performance by Brandon LaBelle

- Melody minus one. A hunt. (WDR Studio Akustische Kunst, 2016) Radio composition based on dialect imitations 

  with Norwegian, Albanes, Lasca, Rheinländisch and others presented by Antje Vowinckel (short version with live performed intermediate texts in English) 

- Nachrichtentstellt. Eine plattenspielerische Lautdichtung aus Radionachrichten / Vinyl performance by Marc Matter

- Discussion with participants, moderation: Anna Bromley

Errant Bodies

Kollwitzstrasse 97

10435 Berlin

www.errantbodies.org

What’s the difference between a pirate and a privateer?  It’s not the act, it’s the authority. Only the privateer – who seems to be acting purely on his own initiative – has the papers authorizing him to do so. The histories of broadcasting and maritime law are closely intertwined, as we can tell from their similar forms of organization. Radio has its public and private branches, and its pirate ones too. But these clear distinctions are no longer valid in today’s radio landscape. Podcasts, web archives and the internet have caused shifts in content types, listening areas, audiences and jurisdictions. So is something being commandeered? If so, how? And most importantly, what? 

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Brandon LaBelle (USA) is an artist, writer and theorist working with questions of social life and cultural agency, using sound, performance, text and sited constructions. He develops and presents artistic projects and performances within a range of international contexts, often working in public. He is professor in new media at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design.  

Antje Vowinckel (DE) is an internationally awarded radio artist, sound artist and music performer. Her focus is on the musicality of the spoken word; e.g. in automatic speaking or dialect imitation and text-sound compositions. Various sound art and radio play productions for public radio (WDR-Studio Akustische Kunst, DRadio, BR, SWR, HR)  as well as solo performances for electric organ and amplified objects and video compositions.  

Marc Matter (CH/B/DE) is a sound artist, radio artist and a founding member of the artists group "Institut fuer Feinmotorik". Since 1997 they published various recordings and a book and performed regularly. Since 2008 Marc Matter performs solo with recorded voice on turntables. In 2014 he collaborated with poet Dagmara Kraus on the text-sound composition "Entstehung dunkel". He is interested in the polysemic potential in sounding language.

Anna Bromley (D)  is an artist, cultural researcher and writer based in Berlin. Her scenic miniatures connect methods of qualitative social research with partly fictionalized re-enactments. Since 2012, she conceives and produces the radio feature LAUTSTROM for reboot.fm  (until 2013 together with Jeremy Woodruff). 

Entrance: 5€/3€.  Bar with wine and beer. 

Pirate/Public is a project by Antje Vowinckel and Serge Baghdassarians from Errant Bodies Sound Art Space, generously supported by the Pankow Bezirksamt Berlin.

Errant Bodies Sound Art Space / focusing on experimental work and research on sound through exhibition, performance, fieldwork, and text. The project space is organized by a working group consisting of Berlin-based artists, academics, curators, and writers. For more information contact: eb@errantbodies.org and http://errantbodies.org/soundartspace/

L’intru (Invaders)

L’intru (Invaders)

a multidisciplinary exhibition and performance program that deals with issues of post-colonialism, memory, identity and narration.

Artists include: Mario Asef (AR), Franziska Becher (DE), Filippo Berta (IT), Plants and Empire (DE), Sonja Hornung (AU), Dae Hong Kim (KR), Israel Martinez (MX), Zwoisy Mears-Clarke, Ana Mendes (PT), Jasmin Schaitl (AT), Hanae Utamura (JP), Hsniyen Wei (TW).

16th to 20th March, 2016

Opening 15th March, 19h00 with performance 'Map Series', by Ana Mendes

Opening times: 15-19h00

Errant Bodies

Kollwitzstrasse 97

10435 Berlin

www.errantbodies.org

The idea of invasion can be spoken about in abstract and concrete terms: the literal denial of entry into a country and the perception of individuals as outsiders combined with the psychological rupture that occurs when one is denied the opportunity to build an identity, nationality and memories. For those who do not have a past, the only possible future lies in-between the fantasy of alienation or the nostalgia of their origins.

Gathering together artists originally from Portugal, Austria, Japan, South Korea, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Argentina, Jamaica and Australia, who work in performance, object, photography, video and installation, ‘Lintru (Invaders)’ aims to question these potent issues: postcolonialism, personal and collective memory, narration and identity. It not only asks who the invaders are, it also speaks of the personal narratives that these forces provoke within the individual.

performance program:

19th March, 17h00 (doors open 16h00)

performances by Ana Mendes, Zwoisy Mears-Clarke, Jasmin Schaitl and Plants and Empire.

Lage Egal - Danziger Strasse 145 10407 Berlin

www.lage-egal.net 

performance public space:

Mauer Park, 20th March, 12h00. 

'In Memoriam', by Israel Martinez - a sound piece dealing with loss and memory, in which the artist recorded written messages found in Jardines del Humaya, an extravagant cemetery in Culiacán, Mexico. Bring your mp3-player, iphone or ipod and headphones and join us for a performance that overlaps the memory of Berlin with the original site in Mexico.

Meeting point: Mauer Park, wall area with big swings. 

Info: lintruninvaders@gmail.com Tel: 016097067224

Pirate/Public – positions in contemporary radio art / Positionen aktueller Radiokunst

What’s the difference between a pirate and a privateer?  It’s not the act, it’s the authority. Only the privateer – who seems to be acting purely on his own initiative – has the papers authorizing him to do so. The histories of broadcasting and maritime law are closely intertwined, as we can tell from their similar forms of organization. Radio has its public and private branches, and its pirate ones too. But these clear distinctions are no longer valid in today’s radio landscape. Podcasts, web archives and the internet have caused shifts in content types, listening areas, audiences and jurisdictions. So is something being commandeered? If so, how? And most importantly, what? 

Pirate/Public invites you to explore these and other questions on four evenings at Errant Bodies Sound Art Space.

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Was unterscheidet den Piraten vom Kaperer? Nicht die Tat, sondern die Befugnis. Nur der Kaperer (engl. privateer), der scheinbar aus purem Eigensinn handelt, ist qua Dokument auch dazu befugt. Die Geschichte des Rundfunks ist eng mit derjenigen des Seerechts verquickt, was sich unter anderem auch in den verwandten Organisationsformen niederschlägt. Das Radio und seine öffentlich-rechtlichen, privaten sowie piratistischen Ableger. Diese klaren Abgrenzungen gelten jedoch in der aktuellen Radiolandschaft nicht mehr. Durch Internet, Podcast und Webarchive verschieben sich inhaltliche Kategorien, Sendegebiete, Zuhörerschaften und Zuständigkeiten. Bleibt die Frage, ob und wie und vor allem was gekapert wird? 

Pirate/Public widmet sich an vier Abenden diesen und anderen Fragen und lädt dazu in den Errant Bodies Sound Art Space ein. 

Errant Bodies Sound Art Space

Kollwitzstrasse 97

10435 Berlin

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Thursday, March 3rd, 19:00

Lautstrom/reboot fm - presented by Anna Bromley

Datscha-Radio - presented by Gaby Schaffner

Das Radio ist nicht Sibirien - Performance by Rafael Jové

Discussion with participants, moderation: Antje Vowinckel 

Friday, April 1st, 19:00

On Air - Performance by Brandon LaBelle

Melody minus one. Eine Jagd - presented by Antje Vowinckel 

Nachrichtentstellt. Eine plattenspielerische Lautdichtung aus Radionachrichten - Performance by Marc Matter

Discussion with participants, moderation: Anna Bromley

Thursday, May 5th, 19:00

A travers le savon. Erweiterte Übersetzung in Ton, Bild, Gesten und Geruch - Performance by Ines Lechleitner

Ate feat. Ed D.: obey God - presented by Serge Baghdassarians and Boris Baltschun

Discussion with participants, moderation: Marcus Gammel

Thursday, May 12th, 19:00

Listening lounge: Barry Bermange

Entrance: 5€/3€

Pirate/Public is a project by Antje Vowinckel and Serge Baghdassarians from Errant Bodies Sound Art Space, generously supported by the Pankow Bezirksamt Berlin.

Errant Bodies Sound Art Space / focusing on experimental work and research on sound through exhibition, performance, fieldwork, and text. The project space is organized by a working group consisting of Berlin-based artists, academics, curators, and writers. For more information contact: eb@errantbodies.org

four and one / Stefan Thut

four and one

Intervention in the installation Rhythms Of Presence by invited guest Stefan Thut

From 5.12. – 7.12. 2015, between 15:00 – 18:00 daily

Errant Bodies

Kollwitzstrasse 97

10435 Berlin

www.errantbodies.org

four and one (2015)

Stefan Thut’s intervening activities within Tao Vrhovec Sambolec’s installation at Errant Bodies Project Space involve recording, playback and walking inside the gallery space, mirroring inherent themes of the installation itself. Each one of four sectors of the space is recorded through the resonance of an acoustic instrument evoked by the Rhythms Of Presence. The recordings obtained are played back at four positions via plates of cardboard. The performing activity is to turn the devices on and off resp. to set them into a state of "0" resp. "1". Going from one position to the other equals the change from one state to another within a 4-digit gray-code arranged on a so-called "Karnaugh-map", a complete cycle encompassing 16 states. The cadence regarding the change within the pattern is reciprocally dependent on the uncontrollable Rhythms Of Presence: in reality Thut’s activity is controlled by the unknown passersby. The secondary sound-installation is driven by and derived from the primary setting at Errant Bodies Project Space echoing previous moments in time and producing a bodily inhabitation/intervention.

As a composer Stefan Thut is interested in processes and scores being relatively determined but still unpredictable in their sonic results. Instead of instrumenting in traditional ways phonographies as well as everyday material serve as components in his work. Notably cardboard and paper play a role in his latest series of scores begun with "two strings and boxes". Whereas in the latter the box is used as table and vehicle, in subsequent works its functionality as space and resonator for recorded sound gained the composer’s attention.

Local Sound Art Scenes / in collaboration with DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program and Deutschlandradio Kultur

Local Sound Art Scenes

Cairo – Cork – Beirut – Ljubljana/Bergen

Presentation, Panel, Live-Performance

Monday, 30.11.2015, 19:00

Errant Bodies 

Kollwitzstraße 97

10435 Berlin

Magdi Mostafa, Cairo: Presentation of works

Panel with Mazen Kerbaj, Beirut, Karen Power, Cork, Magdi Mostafa, Cairo and Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec, Ljubljana/Bergen
Moderation: Marcus Gammel

Live-Performance by Karen Power (electronics) und Mazen Kerbaj (trumpet)

The evening is dedicated to the question of how one can describe local scenes of sound art concerning its formation of members, their artistic background, artistic interactions/collaborations, sound aesthetics. How big are the local scenes and how and where do they show their work? How is the resonance of the audience?

But also we want to exchange thoughts on how sound art is reflecting the local and incorporating it in a sound memory through the use of site specific recordings or semantic references in works. Three sound artists from different countries (Karen Power/Cork, Magdi Mostafa/Cairo, Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec/Ljubljana/Bergen) and the experimental musician Mazen Kerbaj from Beirut will talk about the scenes of their home cities.

This evening is part of a continuous discussion on global sound art by the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program and Deutschlandradio Kultur

In cooperation with Errant Bodies

Rhythms Of Presence / Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec

Rhythms Of Presence (2015)
Installation by Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec
Artist in residence at Errant Bodies Project Space, Berlin

Opening: Friday, November 20th, 2015 at 19:00 – 21:00
Exhibition from 20.11.2015 – 19.12.2015
Opening times: Thursday to Sunday, 11:00 – 17:00 and by appointment (contact: eb(at)errantbodies.org)
Intervention by Stefan Thut: 5.12 – 7.12. 2015, times TBA

Errant Bodies
Kollwitzstrasse 97
10435 Berlin
www.errantbodies.org

The installation Rhythms of Presence is comprised of two large floor surfaces. One is discretely installed at an undisclosed location and the other in the exhibition space. They are identical in size and shape. The floor surface at the undisclosed location is sensing human steps, transmitting their temporal and spatial information to the exhibition space, where a grid of mechanical knockers is invisibly tapping the rhythms of the remotely detected steps and following their paths from below the floor surface. Focusing solely on rhythms and paths of everyday walking, the installation Rhythms Of Presence aims to capture the invisible aspects of walking and investigate how they contribute to constituting presence, subjectivity, temporality and spatiality.

Displacing and superimposing the walking rhythms and paths of one place to those of another, the installation creates a hybrid and asymmetrical space where two simultaneous present times and presences interfere. A floor that becomes unknowingly performative and a floor that echoes steps from an unknown origin together form an open unsitely space that is both here, somewhere else and at the same instance nowhere and in-between. Stepping in this space one inhabits a concrete, yet un-mappable and disoriented territory.

During the exhibition at Errant Bodies Project Space artists, dancers, thinkers, writers and musicians will be invited to inhabit, question, activate, investigate, interpret and together imagine this space in becoming.

The installation Rhythms Of Presence is part of the three-year artistic research project (2013-2016) carried out under the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme at Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Norway.

Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec (SI/NL/NO) is an artist and musician working with invisible ephemeral phenomena and the notion of space. His artistic practice is a poetic exploration of relationships between transitory and temporal phenomena like sound, weather and human activities and built environment and social spaces they inhabit. In his installations, he makes architecture sensitive to its immediate ephemeral surroundings and creating situations where the outside and inside, the unpredictable and constructed, the permanent and temporal converse. His works encompass interdisciplinary and mixed media installations, sound interventions and electro acoustic music. Tao is currently research fellow at the Bergen Academy of Arts and Design (KHiB), within the Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowship Programme. He has shown and performed in various museums, project spaces, galleries and festivals internationally.

Software and hardware development: Mr. Stock Interfaces
Carpenters: Seamus Cater, Bill Earwaker

Co-produced by:
Norwegian Artistic Research Programme and Bergen Academy of Art and Design
Zavod SPLOH, Ljubljana - Slovenia
Zavod Projekt Atol, Ljubljana – Slovenia
Španski Borci

Supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia

Sponsored by:
Future-Shape GmbH
Tremba GmbH
Showbots Engineering GmbH – BERLIN

Thanks to James Beckett

What is the sound of protest?

What is the sound of protest?
A performative evening and temporary exhibition
Curated by Joseph Young

6-8th November 2015

Vernissage 6-9pm on Friday 6th November
performances and talks start at 7.30 sharp

Continues 11-5pm, 7th & 8th November

Errant Bodies
Kollwitzstrasse 97
Berlin 10435
www.errantbodies.org

Does the sound of a coffee machine in a an artisan coffee shop signal a resistance towards the globalisation of the high street and is the sound of birdsong a protest against urban development?

Brighton (UK) and Berlin based artist Joseph Young continues his investigation into artistic utopias, revolutionary moments and social struggle to uncover some of the unlikely forms that the sound of protest might take.

Via invitation and an open call Joseph has selected a number of artists to collaborate with him in this short investigation; starting with a field recording and workshop weekend and ending in a temporary exhibition and performance event.

Featuring contributions by:
Raghed Barakat/ Helgard Müller/ Nicodemus/ Thomas Stern, Vincent Chomaz, Israel Martinez, Sybella Perry, Harry Ross, Stan Back & The Noise Glam, Lorenzo Tripodi, Symeon Yovev, Fred Dewey, Janine Eisenächer, Troy Mighty, Lars Müller, Michelle-Marie Letelier & Maria Verónica Troncoso, Erik Smith, Linda Weiss.

More details at www.artofnoises.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1494094090919780/

Errant Bodies Celebrates!

Errant Bodies Celebrates!

Please join us in celebration of our 5-year anniversary as a project space, 20 years as a publisher, and for the launch of Free Berlin No. 2

Saturday, October 10th, 2015 – 19:00

With works by:
Riccardo Benassi, Alessandra Eramo, fliegende Teilchen, Erik Göngrich, Heimo Lattner & Annette Maechtel with Stephanie Kloss and Judith Laub

Errant Bodies
Kollwitzstrasse 97
10435 Berlin
www.errantbodies.org

Errant Bodies is an independent press and project space. It has been developing publishing projects since 1995, initially in Los Angeles and since 2007 in Berlin. Since this time, it has been dedicated to supporting diverse discourses and projects in the fields of sonic and spatial practices, auditory culture and performativity, experimental writing and critical thought. Its publishing activities are developed through a number of series: Critical Ear – on sound and media art, Doormats – on experimental modes of being-political, Surface Tension – on sited work and the built environment, among others.

Errant Bodies further aims to engage the relation between cultural work and its local context through site-based research, collaborative projects, and through its project space. Opened in 2010, the project space fosters local community and international exchange on contemporary artistic topics, with an emphasis on sonic work and engaged listening. Through workshops, presentations and exhibitions, the project space is geared toward experimental research culture and the cross-over between art and social life.

The project space is managed by the Errant Bodies working group, a collective of Berlin-based artists and academics.
http://www.errantbodies.org/soundartspace.html

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Free Berlin No. 2
With contributions from: Mario Asef, Riccardo Benassi, Alessandra Eramo, Erik Göngrich, Heimo Lattner & Annette Maechtel, Matteo Pasquinelli, Allegra Solitude

Free Berlin – free newspaper on the politics of creativity
Published by Errant Bodies Press, Berlin

The publication aims to contend with current debates on the topic of "the creative city" and specifically how "the artist" contributes to the cultural value of Berlin. With the steady intensification of "the Berlin phenomenon" this cultural value both fuels an extremely dynamic social milieu while lending to a political and urban apparatus geared toward economic development. The instrumentalization of creativity as a currency in the city of Berlin (and elsewhere) thus raises complex and important questions as to the role of artistic expression.

The publication considers these current debates around city politics and how creative practice may negotiate (or not) the social and economic consequences. How to deal with such a situation? Is there a way to produce without being complicit in the capitalization of creative expression? What type of critical position is possible? Are there possibilities for strategies of resistance, re-appropriation or withdrawal? What responsibilities (or not) do artists have for the city? And importantly, what are the historical agents that have made Berlin possible as a place of creative action and assembly?

By questioning the ways in which the artist performs as part of the creative city, the newspaper is envisioned as a creative base for diverse perspectives, and in support of free culture. It assembles together articles, expressions and materials from practitioners and thinkers working in Berlin, to bring forward reflections, historical references, and creative interventions.

Available at various locations, including Pro-QM, KunstWerke, Do you read me, and Errant Bodies Project Space.

No. 1, July 2015
With contributions from: Jeremiah Day, Jennifer Davy, Fred Dewey, Erik Göngrich, Brandon LaBelle, Janet Merkel, Marguerite van Sandick, Steffi Weismann

No. 2, October 2015
With contributions from: Mario Asef, Riccardo Benassi, Alessandra Eramo, Erik Göngrich, Heimo Lattner & Annette Maechtel, Matteo Pasquinelli, Allegra Solitude

No. 3 due out January 2016.

Sanne Krogh Groth / Politics and Aesthetics in Electronic Music

Book launch and presentation with:
Sanne Krogh Groth

author of Politics and Aesthetics in Electronic Music. A Study of EMS - Elektronmusikstudion Stockholm, 1964-79 (Kehrer 2014)

with guests Isabel Thomson & Vinyl, terror & horror

Saturday, September 19, 2015 – 19:00h

Errant Bodies
Kollwitzstrasse 97
10435 Berlin
www.errantbodies.org

Politics and Aesthetics in Electronic Music. A Study of EMS - Elektronmusikstudion Stockholm, 1964-79

This book explores the history of the Swedish electronic music studio EMS. EMS was established in 1964 with the intent to create an international centre for research in sound and sound perception, and to build one of the world’s most advanced hybrid studios. The principal creators of the studio were rooted in Swedish modernism, and had the EMS-project shaped in accordance to the social democratic cultural policy of the time. This enabled the project to achieve continuous financial support, as well as to stay at the forefront of technological advances.

EMS is one of the most significant electronic music studios, and for over 50 years it has operated as a place for innovation in the sonic arts, in particular acting as a platform for the development of text sound compositions in the 1960s and 70s. Today, it maintains an active program, and under the leadership of Mats Lindström supports ongoing productions in the field of auditory studies and electronics. The publication by Sanne Krogh Groth captures the history of this amazing place, and tells the important story of its pioneers.

The publication is supported by Statens Musikverk and ZKM, Karlsruhe.
http://www.artbooksheidelberg.de/html/detail/en/sanne-krogh-groth-978-3-86828-582-6.html

Sanne Krogh Groth (DK, 1975) is MA in Musicology and Theatre studies (2003) with a thesis on Sound Art, and Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Copenhagen (2010, Kehrer 2014). She is currently affiliated at the Royal Library in Copenhagen, conducting the research project “Composers on Stage” concerning 21st century composers. She is also part time lecture at the University of Copenhagen and editor-in-chief of the online journal Seismograf/DMT (seismograf.org). She has published internationally and occasionally co-curated at events and exhibitions.

Isabel Thomson has been familiar with Elektronmusikstudion in Stockholm since the 1990s and worked there for seven years as the international coordinator, from 2004 to 2011. During this time, the studio underwent big changes, under the artistic and administrative leadership of Mats Lindström.

Vinyl, terror & horror is a collaboration between Camilla Sørensen (b.1978) and Greta Christensen (b. 1977), both graduated from the Royal Danish Art Academy in Copenhagen in 2007/2008. The project is focused on the relationship between objects and sound and is presented in different situations as installation, sculpture, composition work or as live concerts. The work - whether it is a presented as an installation or a concert - uses sound to create a narrative that always directly refer to the medium playing it or the situation it is presented in. The sculptural work includes amounts of various materials where the live concert focuses exclusively on LP-records and turntables.

With support from Statens Musikverk, Sverige and The Swedish Embassy, Berlin.