In der Reihe Positionen des Kunsthaus Hamburg nehme ich an einer Podiumsdikussion über Sound Art mit Adnan Softić und Julia Nordholz teil. Am 26.10.23, 18:00 Uhr im Kunsthaus Hamburg.
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Listening Biennial Documentation
event, videoFrom July 11 to August 5 I stayed in South East Asia to participate in the Listening Biennial as a speaker and workshop facilitator.
July 12 I contributed to the Listening Tambayan (Tagalog for hangout, informal gathering) at the University of the Philippines together with Hasan Hujairi and Kevin Murray with an annotated playlist on noise and silence:
The playlist is also available on Mixcloud:
July 14 to 16 I facilitated a workshop in Alitaptap artist village in the Cavite region of the Philippines, themed on soundscapes in the Anthropocene: a close reading of Bernie Krause’s text Anatomy of the Soundscape with it’s division of soundscapes into geophony, biophony and anthropophony contrasted with McKenzie Wark’s theory of the Anthropocene from Molecular Red. The question of how Krause’s division of the soundscape can be upheld under the conditions of the Anthropocene guided us through a soundwalk and a field recording expedition in the surrounding area that resulted in a collaborative playlist (soon to be published).
From July 21 to 23 I travelled to Bagkok with Nguyen TrinH Ti, Yang Yeung and Dayang Yraola travelled for giving workshops and to participate in a Symposium at Silpakorn University. My talk Noise as Sonic Experience touched on the conflicting definitions that can be given to noise and the ambiguous role it plays in political situations. The script for this presentation will hopefully be published later this year.
A more streamlined version of the talk was also presented at Multimedia University in Cyberjaya, Malaysia on July 29.
During the stay in Manila I also participated in the „Neverending Gig“ on World Listening Day (July 18, audio will be posted soon). I’m still overwhelmed by the generosity and hospitality of the people I encountered. The discussions and informal talks will resonate for a long time. Special thanks to Dayang Yraola for inviting me to the Listening Biennial.
Listening Biennial South East Asia
event, lectureI’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be participating in the ListeningBiennial in South East Asia in July.
In contrast to forms of cognitive capitalism, Yves Citton argues for attentional ecologies that can support and enhance sensate sovereignty across society. While cognitive capitalism instrumentalizes and individualizes attention, attentional ecologies nurture critical and creative capacities and related interdependent bonds. Ecologies of attention are fundamental to acknowledging and supporting mutuality and reciprocity; they do much to keep open what counts within the arenas of the sensible, reminding how “attention is our purest form of generosity” (Weil). The second edition of The Listening Biennial is envisaged as an ecology of attention, one shaped by a critical concern for challenging existing constructs of exclusion and extraction, and that invites a shift from paying to giving attention. Such giving is emphasized as profoundly dynamic, that moves across a range of sites and scenes, and whose movements incite and seed forms of recognition and cooperation, collective joy and contestation. This includes what we may term poetic sensing, where methods of engagement are enhanced by the power of the imagination. Following such perspectives, The Listening Biennial opens onto questions of sensate sovereignty and attentional ecologies, as well as imaginary power and the acts of storying that follow, and how these contribute to communal flourishing.
My schedule for the Bieannial:
July 12: Listening Tambayan at Fine Arts Gallery, University of the Philippines [annotated playlist as a sonic journey through different conceptions of noise and aural impossibilities. Noise becomes audible at and as the limits of sonic perception, as a technological artifact, the sound of silence and the turmoil of riots. Displaced and uncanny noises mix with sounds that are in themselves impossibilities, or unsound as Steve Goodman called them – from white noise and electromagnetic waves to birdsong and bats.]
July 14-16: Sound Camp at Alitaptap artist village [a workshop on sonic ecologies and bioacoustics in the Anthropocene, contrasting the writings on the soundscape by R.M. Schafer and Bernie Krause with McKenzie Warks work on the Anthropopcene. Sonic mapping of the geophony, biophony and anthropophony of the area surrounding Alitaptap]
July 22: Listening Symposium at Silpakorn University Bangkok [talk on Noise as Sonic Experience]
July 29: Listening Symposium at Malaysia Multimedia University Kuala Lumpur [talk on Noise as Sonic Experience]
20.11.2021 – Kaserne Basel
eventOn November 20th I will have the honour to introduce a concert of Rosaceae in Basel, Switzerland and to moderate at a talk with her and Cecile Malaspina (author of An Epistemology of Noise). The event is part of the Unordnungen (disorders) series. Tickets and info are available through the Website of Kaserne. Topics discussed will include noise, violence, patriarchy, resistance and the critique of pure reason.
Wilted Valid Space – Let It Burn A Million Times
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Wilted Valid Space– Let It Burn A Million Times is the title of a video installation by Rosh Zeeba, exhibited at Galerie 21/Vorwerkstift in Hamburg on September 5th 2020. The three channel installation was accompanied by sounds specifically assembled for this event. The resulting audio piece consists mainly of loops edited from 1970s Iranian popsongs that were suggested by Rosh Zeeba. These loops were played through a modular synthesizer, creating a ‚hauntological‘ soundscape – the aim of the work being to create an uncanny atmosphere that functions like an anachronistic radio broadcast from pre-revolutionary Iran. The exhibition and accompanying performance by Joscha X Ende (aptly titled Noise Reduction) lasted for four hours. Below you can find a recording of the soundscape, edited down to 48 minutes, videoclips showing the installation and a foto of the performance.
20.03. – Berlin w/ Qian Geng & Wang Ziheng
event, liveUpdate: due to a case of Covid-19 in the team this event is sadly cancelled
Amidst the total cancellation of cultural public events, including its experimental fringes, going online seems the only way left to stage concerts at the moment.
The show with Qian Geng, Wang Ziheng and Anton Kaun at Acud in Berlin on the 20th is cancelled, but there will be a livestream on friday evening. Anton Kaun is staying in Munich, so Qian Geng’s calligraphy-performance will be accompanied by Wang Ziheng and me.
The details of the livestream are still being worked on, but the platform used and the exact time will hopefully soon be posted at this place or at the facebook event.
08.03.2020 – Qian Geng & Wang Ziheng in Hamburg
eventEphemeral Ritual
Qian Geng & Wang Ziheng (Beijing)
Performance, calligraphy and sound
Sunday, March 8th 2020
14:30 – 19:00 (performance starts at 15:00)
ISLAND, Banksstraße 2a, 20097 Hamburg
Qian Geng approaches calligraphy as a performative physical act, a raw collision of movement and the large-scale canvas. For his first ever performance in Germany, he will be accompanied by the floating saxophone/noise soundscapes of Wang Ziheng. Together, they will commune with their audience in a powerful, ephemeral ritual.
This performance was originally intended to be a part of the upcoming 4th edition of Noisexistance-Festival which sadly didn’t work out. Thankfully WAF, Agency & and Island stepped in and now bring these two artists to Hamburg. I’ll have the honour to giv a short introductive talk before the performance.
NOISEXISTANCE III
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Das Ende der Geschichte – Internationales Festival zur Theorie und Praxis des Lärms
Freitag, 29.–Samstag, 30. März \ Kampnagel \ Hamburg
Noise interveniert an den Grenzen des Musikalischen, es ist der Sound von Aufruhr, ein Rauschen, das feste Positionen in Bewegung bringt. In seiner dritten Ausgabe geht NOISEXISTANCE der Frage nach, auf welche Weise die verschiedenen Bedeutungen von Noise ineinander übergehen und Neues produzieren. Als experimentelles Genre, als politische Intervention und als Strategie des Denkens. NOISEXISTANCE versammelt Protagonist*innen, die an dieser Schnittstelle arbeiten. Ein Fokus des diesjährigen Festivals liegt dabei in der Verbindung von Noise und feministischen Positionen, die innovative politische und ästhetische Handlungsmöglichkeiten erproben. In diesem Kontext wird erstmals ein Kompositionsauftrag mit dem Titel »There’s no time here, not any more« an die Hamburger Musikerin Rosaceae vergeben.
Fr., 29.03.2019
Tagesticket für Fr. \ 29.03.2019
(16,- Euro / erm. 12.- Euro*) Kampnagel – KMH
19:00
Vortrag\Diskussion:
Marie Thompson: The Noise of Maintenance
im Anschluss findet ein Gespräch mit dem Publikum und Beteiligten des Festivals statt
21:00
Live-Programm:
Brut
Liz Allbee
Moor Mother
Klein
Nikae
Sa., 30.03.2019
Tagesticket für Sa. \ 30.03.2019
(16,- Euro / erm. 12.- Euro*) Kampnagel – KMH
19:00
Vortrag\Diskussion:
Cécile Malaspina: Unthinkable Freedom of Choice
im Anschluss findet ein Gespräch mit dem Publikum und Beteiligten des Festivals statt
21:00
Live-Programm:
Rashad Becker
Autistic Argonauts
Wolf Eyes
Rosaceae
Scheich in China (DJ)
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Festivaltickets für beide Tage: 26,- Euro (erm. 18,- Euro*)
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*Der ermäßigte Preis kann am Ende des Bestellvorgangs ausgewählt werden.
22.09. – Waschzwang III Releasefest
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22.09. ab 18:00, Mokrystr. 1 Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg.
Mit: Andere ausser Ich, Erotic Nights, Featuring und Andere, FKK Wolf, Gang Mo Fo, Güllepumpe, Helge Meyer, Helge S.Hammerbrook, Herzbräune, Incite Hu, Nils Quak,
Noisebreezer, Occupied Head, Osscile, Schwall, Sebastian Felstau, Tintin Patrone
→ VAMH
agoRadio #51 – Noisexistance II
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Zweistündige Dokumentation des zweiten Noisexistance-Festivals, das Anfang März in Hamburg stattgefunden hat. Mit Vorträgen von Steve Goodman und Nina Power. Musik und Material von Best Friend Machine, Black To Comm, Peter Brötzmann, Club Moral, Calhau!, Dirty Electronics, Erotic Nights, Ex-Kopf, Helm, René Huthwelker & Louise Vind Nielsen. Die AgoRadio-Sendung zum ersten Festival von 2016 findet sich hier.
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