Program
Day One
Tuesday, 5.11.2013
Plucked From the Public Air - Assessing the Essence of Radio
Radio is air as shared public sphere. How to define what is special about this medium?
Radio breathes the public air, it is both social space and medium of transmission.
From its inception it has been characterized by its densely heterogeneous programming and the audience has since been free to act with agency and take what they find interesting from the “Ether” created by radio. A main protagonist of this medium is the art of language, through the technology of radio it becomes audible in the most varied of forms.
The first day of the symposium will be fundamental research. We will question: Where is radio art in relation to media art? What imaginations relating to the recordings of sound and voice were there before storage and transmission became possible? How alive is the word as the building block of radio art? Who narrates in radio? Is it the language, sound itself, or the sequencing of sounds? Is it the authors, under the care of dramaturges? Or perhaps it is the participating audience that guides. Which rules do the stories adhere to? Is it those of the classical five acts, those of the action story? Or perhaps it is more akin to pop-music?
Moderator: Jenni Zylka
| 1.00 pm | Peter Weibel: Radio Art As Media Art A keynote address placing radio as a hybrid medium within a larger context. | ||
| 1.20 pm | Brigitte Felderer: Radio Before Radio - a history Thoughts on acoustics and recording technologies that prefigured the advent of radio. | ||
| 1.40 pm | Discussion: Students from the University of Arts (HfG) and other participants will have the opportunity to ask questions. | ||
| 2.00 pm | Coming Up For Air (Coffee Break) | ||
| 2.15- 3.30 pm | Performing the Word Three versions of poetic performance, enacted by three eminent word artists. | ||
2.15 pm Poetry-reading as a physical event. | 2.35 pm Voice, rhythm and the world: spoken word poetry, embodied by one of its initiators. | 2.55 pm Thomas Meinecke & Move D: Fragmentation How words and music are taken apart to form a new sonic alliance. | |
| 3.15 pm | Discussion: Students from the University of Arts (HfG) and other participants will have the opportunity to ask questions. | ||
| 3.30 pm | Coming Up For Air (Coffee Break) | ||
| 3.45 pm | Magne Furuholmen: Everybody Is A Composer How the audience becomes the artist in Magne F.'s work. A dialogue/Art Slam with Jenni Zylka. | ||
| 4.05 pm | Discussion: Students from the University of Arts (HfG) and other participants will have the opportunity to ask questions. | ||
| 4.20 pm | Coming Up For Air (Coffee Break) | ||
| 4.30 pm | Get in Touch: Meet the artist in his workshop
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Magne Furuholmen: Complicate Your Life Decomposing and recomposing a pop song Discover the art (history) of sampling as seen by Magne F. | John Giorno: Playing the Answering Machine How to develop an installation with poems, texts and answering machines. Bring your own recordings - the poet will listen, share his experience and create a new dial-a-poem.. | Shaping your favourite text with Michael Lentz. | |
| 5.15 pm | Coming Up For Air – (Coffee Break) | ||
| 5.30 pm | Panel Discussion: Sparks In the Air – Words & sounds as narration Participants: Martina Müller-Wallraf, Kaye Mortley, Kate Rowland, Mark Ravenhill and Herbert Kapfer.
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| 6.15 pm | Coming Up For Air (Break) | ||
| 7.00 pm | Opening Of the ARD Hörspieltage and performance Xala funded by Pro Helvetia Dance performance by Ania Losinger and Mats Eser showing excerpts from "The Five Elements" and "Xala II". Performed on the world's first floor xylophone, an instrument that is played with dance.
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| 8.30 pm | In Concert | ||
Stage 1: Bastian Pastewka & Friends German TV-comedian on stage | Stage 2: Martin Daske – Unwritten The composer in concert with two musicians, his three dimensional notations, and his unwritten sound patterns taken from typewriter, goose quills and smoke signals. | ||
Day Two
Wednesday, 6.11.2013
Listening to the Arts
The Acoustic as Material in Art
The interest of artistic disciplines in the acoustic seem to come in waves and in the past few years a new wave has come forth with strong inclinations towards the immaterial and atmospheric. Many artists now use the power of sounds, as a formal device to expand the radius of effect in their work.
The application of voice, language, speech, movement, sound, noise and music plays a decisive role in this.
On the second day of the symposium we want to inquire as to the aesthetic possibilities of the acoustic: How is its relationship with the visual manifested? How do visual artists use sound in their work and why? What paths do musicians walk as they sculpturally explore the acoustic? Is there a symbiosis of image and sound? How fleeting is sound itself seen from a historical-scientific perspective? Is a performative choreography perhaps “silent” music? We will listen in on visual artists, protagonists of new music, sound scientists, opera composers and choreographers in their relationship to and manipulation of the material “sound”.
Moderator: Ute Thon
| 10.00 am | Mirjam Schaub: Voices, Calling and Performing The voices of Venice, Janet Cardiff and others. | ||
| 10.20 am | Steven Connor: The Art Of Foam and Froth In his cultural historic research Steven Connor looks at air as a subject of science and a material of art. | ||
| 10.40 am | Discussion: Students from the University of Arts (HfG) and other participants will have the opportunity to ask questions. | ||
| 2.00 pm | Coming Up For Air (Coffee Break) | ||
| 11.10 am | Delia Derbyshire & Daphne Oram: pioneers of sound art | ||
| 11.30 am | Participants: Daniel Teruggi, Thomas Meinecke, Hans Burkhard Schlichting and Martin Daske. | ||
| 12.15 pm | Discussion | ||
| 12.30 pm | Coming Up For Air (Coffee Break) | ||
| 1.15 pm | A K Dolven: How Sound Acts In My Art Art Slam on sound as material in the artist's sculpture and painting. | ||
| 1.30 pm | Panel Discussion: Images Only? Participants: A K Dolven, Tino Seghal, Steven Connor, Brigitte Felderer | ||
| 2.15 pm | Discussion: Students from the University of Arts (HfG) and other participants will have the opportunity to ask questions. | ||
| 2.30 pm | Coming Up For Air (Coffee Break) | ||
| 2.45 pm | Get In Touch Visual artists and radio practicioners give playful insight in to their creative methods.
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Julia Tieke: Make It Snappy - mini radio-formats as aurals and visuals Spot the visual hidden in ultra short sound pieces and sketch your own notations. | William Engelen: My Voice and My Piano Teacher How your voices and your memories are turned into music | ||
| 3.30 pm | Coming Up For Air – (Coffee Break) | ||
| 3.45 pm | Steven Connor: The Matter Of Air Theory and practice: the academic and broadcaster shares his insights into two worlds. An Art Slam.
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| 4.00 pm | Michael Glasmeier: Noise and Sound In Visual Art The keynote address explores noise and music in the seemingly silent imagery of Dutch painting. | ||
| 4.20 pm | Discussion: Students from the University of Arts (HfG) and other participants will have the opportunity to ask questions. | ||
| 4.30 pm | Coming Up For Air (Break) | ||
| 4.40 pm | Heiner Goebbels: Starring: Sound - on perception modes in performing arts.
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| 5.00 pm | Panel Discussion: Watching the Unseen – sound in performance | ||
5.45 pm | Discussion: Students from the University of Arts (HfG) and other participants will have the opportunity to ask questions. | ||
| 7.00 pm | Competition Performances From the ARD German Hörspiel Awards | ||
Day Three
Thursday, 7.11.2013
Sounds In Public Spaces
Expansion of the field of listening
The shaping of public space through sound has long been overlooked, but recently this subject has been brought to the attention of artists, city planners, scientists and advertisers. The third day of this symposium questions affect, possibilities, and the potential value of sound design within our surroundings: What are these spaces and how are they acoustically shaped?
Should the sound of public space be designed at all? What happens to us, our condition and our memory when sound in everyday life is shaped? Is it even possible for there to exist a category of “beautiful sounds” that is common to everyone? Artists, sounddesigners and cultural scientists step in to this extended zone of listening and present their personal views in this matter
Moderation: Walter Filz
| 10.00 am | Thomas Macho: Sound In Public Spaces What is sound, what noise and what silence in our cities? Keynote addressing these issues from a philosopher's pit of view. | ||
| 10.20 am | Julian Treasure: Prototyping Sound Are "business" and "aesthetics" opposed concepts? No, says our guest in a conversation with the keynote speaker, and reveals how firms can profit from good sound design. | ||
| 10.35 am | Discussion: Students from the University of Arts (HfG) and other participants will have the opportunity to ask questions. | ||
| 10.45 am | Christina Kubisch: Electrical Walk Slam Follow the artist on her tour through the invisible network of electromagnetic radiation. | ||
| 11.00 am | Peter Cusack: Why Are Favourite Sounds Favourite Traffic noises may give us a sense of belonging: sound journalist Cusack uncovers surprising things in his decade-long research on people's favourite sounds. | ||
| 11.15 am | The artist talks about Memory Loops, a virtual memorial for the victims of National Socialism, that she has realized on behalf of the city of Munich. | ||
| 11.30 am | Discussion: Students from the University of Arts (HfG) and other participants will have the opportunity to ask questions. | ||
| 11.50 am | Coming Up For Air (Coffee Break) | ||
| 12.00 noon | Panel Discussion: Lost, Found Or Designed? Discussing urban sound Participants: Julian Treasure, Christina Kubisch, Thomas Macho, Peter Cusack, Michaela Melián und William Engelen | ||
| 12.45 pm | Focus & Echo & Wrap-Up Session Discussion: Students from the University of Arts (HfG) and other participants will have the opportunity to ask questions. | ||
| 1.30 pm | One For the Road ... a small snack in the foyer | ||
| from 2.00 pm | Competition performances from the ARD German Hörspiel Awards
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| from 9.00 pm | Beat and Greet – Party | ||