SOUND EXCHANGE
Experimental Music Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe

SOUND EXCHANGE embarks on the search for the roots and present-day experimental music culture in Central and Eastern Europe, which has a lively internationally linked scene of musicians, artists and festivals. Local traditions and their protagonists have, however, partially been consigned to oblivion since the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989. SOUND EXCHANGE wants to ensure that these traditions can be heard again and to link them to current developments in local music scenes.

Between November 2011 and November 2012, SOUND EXCHANGE DAYS will take place that are connected to local festivals in seven cities – Krakow, Bratislava, Tallinn, Vilnius, Budapest, Riga and Prague – with concerts, performances, workshops and a wandering exhibition on the experimental music scene in Central and Eastern Europe. …
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Sonic Landmarks – a sonic path through Tallinn
official program of the European Cultural Capital Tallinn 2011

4th – 10th JULY 2011 / TALLINN

“Most people would probably say that architecture does not produce sound, it cannot be heard. But neither does it radiate light yet it can be seen. We see the light it reflects and thereby gain an impression of form and material. In the same way we hear the sounds it reflects and they, too, give us an impression of form and material” (Steen Eiler Rasmussen – Experiencing Architecture (1959)

You can find a documentation online at our tunedcity website.

Mini Tuned City Nürnberg – Sounds of Muggenhof
11. bis 17. April 2011

As part of an interdisziplinary artist competition initiated by the city of Nürnberg/Germany Tuned City is going to realize a ‘mini-event’ in a very interesting part of the city called Muggenhof/Eberhardshof. The area is a mix of havitation and industrial architecture inbetween a green belt with a little river on one side and the main connection highway to Fürth (and the parallel train track) on the other side. The industrial architecture is dominated by the former production facilities of AEG and the Quelle (mailoder) headquarter build by Ernst Neufert.

Read the docu at our tunedcity website >>>

We had the good fortune during the recent Tuned City pre-event, to spend some time in the historic Sea Plane Hanger currently under renovation in Tallinn. … You can read a very excellent docu on our recent activities in Tallinn on John Grzinich’s website with fotos, videos, audio-recordings and descriptions. Some more images can be found at our Tuned City Flickr pool and two video-documetations of the workshops by Pedro Balbas on youtube. We even made it to the Russian tv news in Tallinn with the project.

We are working on several new projects around tuned city.

TUNED CITY COLOGNE workshop to take place over the next several months at KHM envisioned as a starting point towards the creation of a long term project aimed at ISEA 2010.
For Tallinn 2011 (European Capital of Culture 2011) a tuned city edition is in preparation as well.

Please read more on http://www.tunedcity.de

a first documentation of the sommercamp09 worshop program at House of World Culture Berlin and the performance of the john cage piece “variations VII” by :zoviet*france:, Matt Wand und Atau Tanaka at radialsystem Berlin can be found here:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/sommercamp_2009/

We’re preparing a new project right now! sommercamp+workstation=2009 is meant as a practical example of the feasibility of a “laboratory for art and media in Berlin”.  The starting point of the four-month project is the sommercamp from 10th to 16th of August - a module to work and generate ideas, with ten open workshops and two days of final presentations on 15th/16th of August 2009 at the House of World Culture and a kick-off on 14th August 2009 at the radialsystem. The second part of the project is the workstation - intended as project production support - with four three-month project residencies and a curatorial grant that are produced in close collaboration with local and international partners. A discursive weekend will take place from 13 to 15 November 2009 with the invited artists/projects and experts from science and technology at Berlin based general public, in collaboration with DISK/ctm.

for more information please visit: http://www.sommercampworkstation.de

the documentation of the structures program can be found here >>>

23. - 31. january 2009 / STRUCTURES – Backing-up Independent Audio-visual Cultures at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Betahnien / club transmediale 2009

Lectures, presentations and discussions with: Peter Wicke (DE), Tobias Müller (DE), Christoph Gurk (DE), Tobias Rapp (DE), Silke Borgstedt (DE), Goodiepal (DK), Bill Drummond (UK), Diedrich Diederichsen (DE), Ultra-red (US), Maga Bo (US), Bnegeao (BR), Björn Gottstein (DE), John Sinclair (US), Davin Brainard (US), Rene van der Voort (NL), Charles Leadbeater (UK) tbc, Richard Barbrook (UK) tbc, Krystian Woznicki (DE), Andi Studer (CH), Martin Hirsch (DE), Jan Gleichmar (DE), Thaddeus Herrmann (DE), Umair Hague (UK), Pim Betist (NL), Eric Wahlforss (SE), Christian Mix-Linzer (DE), Sascha Kösch (DE), Volker Grassmuck (DE), Pyratbyran (SE), Tony Herrington (UK), Jason Forrest (US), Christoph Fringeli (CH), Liz Haas (AT), Adrienne Goehler (DE), Inke Arns (DE), Leo Findeisen (AT), Lizvlx (A), Kuba Szreder (PL), Malcolm Levy (CA), Drew Hemment (UK) …

Worklshops, laboratories and installations by: xxxxx (int), Derek Holzer [US/DE], Martin Howse [UK/DE], Martin Kuentz [DE], Fredrik Olofsson [SE/DE], Julian Oliver [NZ/E], Otto Rössler [DE], Danja Vassiliev [RU/NL], Valentina Vuksic [CH], Oswald Berthold [A/DE], Anthony Hall [UK], Leif Elggren [SE], The Bank of Common Knowledge/Platoniq (ES), Angelika Middendorf & Andreas Schimanski (DE), <tag> (NL), Julien Clauss + Lynn Pook (DE/FR), Lukatoyboy (RS),  Lucky Dragons (US), Braden King (US), Niklas Roy & Adad Hannah (DE/CA), Jan Rohlf (DE), Nikolaus Gansterer (AT), Benjamin Maus & Andreas Nicolas Fischer (DE), Soundmuseum.fm (NL), Lucy Links (DE), Dan Brinkmann (NL), Raumlabor & Timm Ringewaldt (DE) …

A first program overview can be found here: http://www.clubtransmediale.de/festival-09/day-program/day-schedule.html

We’re happy to announce that Bill Drummond just confirmed his participation at “STRUCTURES – Backing-up Independent Audio-visual Cultures”.
With Partner Jimmy Cauty, Bill Drummond formed one of the most controversial and important bands of the century, The KLF.

Drummond is going to talk about his project The 17 in which he is exploring the basic questions of the value of music.