With this exhibition we are also part of the first World Listening Day. So I will perform as DJ with a special selection of tracks for your listening pleasure.

klang im namen des raumes: klangkunstprojekt strausberger platz/karl-marx-allee

18.07. – 29.08.2010

Opening: 18.07.2010, 16h, im namen des raumes, Strausberger Platz 19, 10243 Berlin

www.imnamendesraumes.de

Works from:
Jason Dodge
Katrin Emler
Douglas Henderson
Robert Henke
Peter Joslyn
Bjørn Melhus
Nik Nowak
Dany Scheffler
Max Schneider
Frauke Schmidt
Katya Lachowicz und Adrian Sievering

Artist collective Berg26 „The worldʼs not listening day“:
Anna Bäumer
Elen Flügge und Thomas Koch
Florian Goeschke
Annie Goh
Daniela Imhoff
Damian Rebgetz
Alex Sieber
Thomas Wochnik

Place: various indoor and outdoor locations Strausberger Platz/Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin, between U Strausberger Platz and U Frankfurter Tor.

Initiated by: im namen des raumes, Berg26, Max Schneider

In cooperation with: Sam Auinger, UDK Sound Studies, Kommunale Galerie Berlin, Worldlistening project

Opening Party: Bar Babette, Karl-Marx-Allee 36, 19h

Music: Dazz (Martin Backes), Visuals: ultramoodem (Moritz Stumm), Live: Cult of Nahra, 20h

Exhibition:
From 18th July until 29th August 2010, the historical Karl-Marx-Alle will be transformed with numerous auditive discoveries. Between Strausberger Platz and Frankfurter Tor, the gallery im namen des raumes, the artist collective Berg26 and Max Schneider have come together to mark the first World Listening Day with a sound-art exhibition that engages the whole of this art district in the middle of Berlin. Internationally acclaimed artists such as Bjoern Melhus, Jason Dodge, Douglas Henderson and Robert Henke in cooperation Berg26 will show works indoors and outdoors along the Karl-Marx Allee. Amongst the twenty-five works, consisting of video im namen des raumes forum für kunst, design & genuss installations, sound-sculptures and performances, many deal with the history and contemporary meaning of this area.

The whole project klang im namen des raumes, which stretches from Strausberger Platz 19 along the Karl-Marx Allee up to Frankfurter Tor with its twenty-five sound installations, video works and performances, was made possible due to the untiring motivation of the participants and the kind cooperation of the galleries and proprietors involved. The costly installation of Bjoern Melhus’ work was kindly undertaken by Montblanc, who have our special thanks. Klang im namen des raumes, similarly to the initiative undertaken in May with the joint-gallery map of the area, for which we thank Nowadays, aims to draw attention to and realise the extraordinary potential of the area of Karl-Marx Allee.

The gallery im namen des raumes, located on Strausberger Platz serves as an information centre and start point to the project: here, the visitors will receive a exhibition map and information about the works and artists, as well as headphones and radio receivers and can then make their own way around the art works distributed in the area. The landmark district of Karl-Marx Allee can be discovered at the visitor’s own pace with all their senses. The interdisciplinary art project brings the question the auditive conditions, affects and qualities of this urban space and opens up the discussion to the residents, visitors, observers and listeners.

klang im namen des raumes asks the question, what do our senses have to offer within our urban living space and how do they shape the ways we organise our social and economic lives. Stories will be told and the hidden will be exposed. A particular interest is the auditive as an aspect of the urban environment in around Strausberger Platz and Karl-Marx Allee, in the present (?) as well as historical context. The exhibition places itself within an artistic discourse which deals with the auditive situation of our urban environments. In the gallery itself, installations from Florian Goeschke, Jason Dodge, Douglas Henderson and Peter Josyln will be presented, on and around Strausberger Platz, „Treehouse“#2 from Bjoern Melhus as well as the „White Chair Project“ from Elen Flügge and Thomas Koch and Daniela Imhoff’s installation will be found. Along the Karl-Marx Allee various works will use the window fronts of unused offices as well as various galleries empty during their summer break, as a way to present video-installations, which have headphone sockets to enable visitors to plug in and hear the audio.

These works are based on the theme of artistic intervention in residential and everyday situations, as well as our perception of public urban space. To think with the ears and consider the auditive environment of this area is another aspect of this – the works are an invitation to make a break from normal, everyday perception, particularly that of urban space, and to think
and perceive it differently.

Parallel to these auditive place studies on Strausberger Platz, the students of Sound Studies at the University of Arts Berlin are exploring the area of Fehrbelliner Platz under the title CRACK*. The documentation and results of this project can be seen and heard in the Kommunalen Galerie Berlin.

More information can be found here:
www.udkberlin.de

Information about the first ever International World Listening Day can be found here:
www.worldlisteningproject.org

More info: www.eclepsydre.com

Here are some more photos…

Earth will kill you… (2010)
Dimensions: variable
Material: metal, coins, puppets, lemons, candle, fire, circuit board, LED, cable clips, desk, loudspeakers, stand, body interaction

Here are the photos from the installation…

More photos and a video documentation will follow soon!

I will show a new artwork which is still in progress…make sure to come by. I will also do a special afrofuturistic DJ-Set.

More info: www.eclepsydre.com

e’clepsydre

“The energies of expansive jupiter aligned with disruptive uranus will be actualized in an unpredictable alchemical combination based on soothsaying and iatromathematical principles to transform the .HBC event space into a living, breathing multi-sensorial media-enhanced art, music, fashion, performance organism.”

“This microcosmic constellation of imagination incarnate, curated with the current planetary coordinates, and based on their bodily corollaries, will galvanize within a fragile hourglass, ruled by the tumultuous tides of time and tempered by the technological touch of indeterminacy, to concentrate nature and generate a magnificent pendulum of perpetual eclipse for all to witness.”

Artists, musicians, performers, and fashion designers collaborate to create many different simultaneous experiences inhabiting open, closed, and even hidden spaces all over the .HBC. Each with a different planet for inspiration the collaborations will form a constellation within the space with the intent of generating a multi-sensory eclipse.

Artists

Albane Lamoril
Amok Amour
Angel Eyekon and the Whining Cunts
Antoine Renard
Ben Bigelow
Brel Froebe
Cabiria
Clara Jo
Corrie Siegel
Dandy Lion Syd
Dazz
dev01ded
Emi
Evan Whale
Erna’s War
evaSophia & Topi
Fabrice Defeo
Fette Sans & M.M. Green
Franka Herwig
Graf Mente
h.o.p.e.
Jia Gu
Justin John Greene
Julius Holtz
Le Titanic Ensemble
Liina Nilsson & La Belle Mort
LTNO & Julietta La Doll
Martin Backes
Mirko Mielke
Petja Ivanova
Phillip Hohenwarter
Sean Boylan
St. Bazard
Strange Forces
Tiziano Jian
Tata Christiane / Elisa Cucinelli / Aniaetleprogrammeur
Von Bardonitz

Address:

.HBC
Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 9
10178 Berlin

Cover by: Sarah Illenberger

You can download the entire compilation in MP3 format for free. Have a listen or download it here:
www.mercedes-benz.tv/mixedtape

For more information about the University please visit:
www.btk-fh.de

About the course:

The course is about designing sound environments from systematic planning to implementation. As a part of the study course “Visual & Motion Design” and “Interface Design” the focus is on sound design & production for media and art. In combination with an ongoing work the students explore matters such as: auditory perception, acoustic concepts, acoustic communication, anthropology and ecology of sound, soundscape, microphone usage, sound design, music in relation to moving images, sound engineering and composition.

I was responsible for the whole sound and music on this project which is a three-channel video installation. A movie version will follow soon. More infos after the break!

Six Easy Pieces (2009)

Being the last part of the Perception Trilogy ; a three-part cycle exploring the imperceptible conditions that frame life.
Six easy pieces connects art and science, focusing on space and time and romantically refers to an age when artists and scientists had similar concerns and were often one and the same person.

VIDEOFRAMES 2010 - a festival for VIDEO ART & DIGITAL CULTURE
www.videoformes-fest-engl.com

For more info about Reynold Reynolds:
www.reynold-reynolds.com

Here are some photos from one of the recording sessions…

More photos and a video documentation will follow soon!

For more info:
www.estacasaestasonada.blogspot.com

Address:
Appartement, Berlin
Prenzlauer Allee 242

When:
16/01/2010 - 9:30 pm

More info about the work: Video Excerpt & Info-Material - english version

I did the Sound Direction and Design for this application. AMBINATOR is an iPhone App and available from the App Store starting on January 20th, 2010. Use it for meditation, relaxation, or for just masking out unwanted sounds around you.

For more info:
www.ambinator.com

I composed a track for this compilation called “Obfuzzcation”. Its my very own interpretation of the so called numbers station phenomenon. You can download the entire album in MP3 and Flac format. The Numbers Stations is freely available under Creative Commons license.

Have a listen here:
www.lab.pubspaces.com