1 JAZZ KÆLDEREN 6 ILLUM 11 LÅN & SPAR BANK Pick up your headphones. Listen to the security Listen to the security gate at the corner entrance. Move your head as close to the screen of the cash gate at the entrance to the shop. Be careful, it can Then turn right and walk down Silkegade. machine as you can. be quite loud if you walk close. Walk slowly down Skindergade towards Købmager- 7 PARKING HOUSE 12 HELLIGÅNDSKIRKEN Lille Kongensgade Christina Kubisch gade. Stop at the rear end of the parking house entrance, (CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT) in the very corner to the left of the window with the Enter the courtyard through the gate in Niels 2 SIGNAL sign: NO SMOKING. Move your head from left to Hemmingsens Gade and walk slowly around the ELECTRiCAL WALKS Security gate. If you want to enter a shop, turn right in the very corner to the left of the window. church. You might hear music, voices and other sounds. If you don’t, try again later – it’s worth it. 10 off and take off the headphones as the gates KØBENHAVN 04.09.09 - 19.09.09 get louder the closer you get. Please handle the 8 SILKEGADE 8 Walk out of the courtyard through the gate in headphones with care along the route. Put the headphones as close as possible to the Valkendorfsgade, turn right and walk through the small security panel on the left side of the portal: small passage to Gråbrødretorv. Walk towards Nikolaj Plads Østergade 3a 3b ESPRIT S/E/B ENSKILDA the Synagogue and the northern part of the walk. Antonigade Listen to the security gates. Alternatively, return to Jazzkælderen and hand in 9 FONA the headphones. Sværtegade 9 4 SPARKZ Take off and turn the headphones off while walking Security gates continued. in. Then turn them on again, approach the different 13 SYNAGOGUE TV screens and listen to them as closely as pos- Go along or sit down in front of the fence and listen Pilestræde 8 5a 5b 5c SOAKED IN LUXURY, sible– sensing the difference between Plasma, LCD to the sounds from inside the buildings. Silkegade 11 Gammel Mønt 7 Højbro Plads KAREN MILLEN, FRENCH CONNECTION and Crystal TV. 6 Walk up and down between these three very Please turn the headphones off while leaving 14 BARON VON DY PASSAGE through the security gate. Stop at the entrance and look at the antennas 5c different sounding security gates. 5b Læderstræde above Nørreport Station. Then slowly walk in and Klareboderne 5a 10 MAGASIN through the passage. Købmagergade Enter Magasin with the headphones turned off, 4 then turn them on again when inside and walk 15 DANSKE BANK Vognmagergade Valkendorfsgade slowly around in the cosmetics and perfume Enter the bank through the corner entrance and ade department. Listen closely to the lipsticks, make-up listen to the sounds of the various types of bank s G Landemærket 3b sen ng items, displays and light advertisements of Max machines in the foyer. mi 3a Løvstræde em H Factor, Blue Lagoon and others. Explore the world ls 12 ie of beauty. Turn the headphones off before leaving. NØRREPORT METRO STATION Pilestræde N 16 Åbenrå 2 Have a little sonic rest while walking down Store Walk down the stairs to the ticket level. Listen to Kirkestræde. the ticket machines and continue further down the

Skindergade escalators to the tracks. Explore the station with Store Kannikestræde Klosterstræde the trains arriving and departing. Take the lift back Kejsergade to street level, and cross Nørre Voldgade. 1 Stormgade Kompangnistræde NØRREPORT STATION Købmagergade 17 Skindergade Walk through the the main station entrance down Knabrostræde the stairs just after the two kiosks. Walk around Krystalgade and listen to the different ticket machines, the Kultorvet Peder Hvidtfeldts Stræde 13 Løngangstræde automatic photo-booth, the train times TV-monitors Nørre Voldgade Dyrkøb Skindergade and the lighted/rolling advertisement screens. Buy Frue Plads Fiolstræde Strøget Farvegade a two-zone ticket and continue down the stairs to Frederiksborggade the right to the S-train tracks. 15 14 Fiolstræde Lavendelstræde 16 17 Kattesundet

Nørregade Studiestræde Frederiksberggade Vester Voldgade

Nørre VoldgadeNørre Voldgade

Sankt Peders Stræde Studiestræde Vestergade 22

Larsbjørnsstræde

H C Andersens Boulevard

21 18 S-TRAIN Vesterbrogade Take the S-train train two stops from platform 4 to the Central Station. 20 TIVOLIS SPILLEHALLLER Enjoy the ride and its sounds. (THE TIVOLI GAMBLING HALL) Vester Voldgade Jernbanegde (The gambling hall with direct access from the 18 19a CENTRAL STATION HALL street). Take off and turn off the headphones before Bernstorffsgade THE HALL: Explore the hall by walking around entering. Have a few coins ready and play on the 20 H C Andersens BoulevardStudiestræde slowly: machines, lights, screens, etc. machines with the headphones on – the older machines are especially recommended! Do stop 19a 19b BAGGAGE LOCKERS: Use the stairs down to in time... 19b the Reventlowsgade exit just after track 11/12 and Banegårdpladsen 19c then turn left. Walk slowly through the room along 21 RÅDHUSARKADEN (THE TOWN HALL ARCADE) the lockers. Take the lift back to the main hall. Walk slowly through the arcade. Stop at the glass door Nr. 1A Vesterbrogade on your right hand 19c MAIN TICKET SALES: Enter the ticket sales side inside the arcade. Exit the Arcade and cross situated on the right hand side just before the Rådhuspladsen (The Town Hall Square). Vesterbrogade exit. Position yourself near the counters where you see the employees behind 22 STRØGET Walk slowly down Strøget back to Skindergade, glass screens. You will hear a special kind of (PEDESTRIAN STREET FREDERIKSBERGGADE) through Jorcks Passage. Hand in the headphones conversation. Listen closely to the red LED signs on the wall next at Jazz Kælderen where refreshments are available Leave the station through the Bernstorffsgade exit. to the Money Exchange at Frederiksberggade and questions about Electrical Walks Copenhagen Cross the street. number 28. are welcome!

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The walk is free of charge, but you will need to leave your driver’s license, passport, state ID, valid student ID or suitable alternative as a deposit. Using the headphones is not harmful, but please be cautious, as certain sound sources, particularly security gates, can be quite loud. The headphones have a volume control that you can adjust. Please take care when crossing roads. The route indicated on the map is a suggestion based on research of the city’s sounds. Feel free to take a detour here and there and to explore the city on your own. Some of the sounds indicated on the map may not be present all of the time. Walk slowly and sometimes just stop and turn your head around – electromagnetic fi elds can vary greatly within very short distances. The more you rush the less you hear. Christina Kubisch’s ELECTRICAL WALKS: København is a Please treat the headphones with care, they are sonorous and sensual experience of the city that uncovers custom-made. Turn your headphones off if you have Christina Kubisch a rest during the walk and also after use in order to Copenhagen’s invisible acoustic phenomena. save battery power. Return them to the Jazz ELECTRiCAL WALKS Kælderen after fi nishing the walk. KØBENHAVN 04.09.09 - 19.09.09

Equipped with special magnetic headphones and a map marked with Christina Kubisch is one of the very pioneers of Go on a discovery of sound local acoustic landmarks, visitors are offered an adventurous, auditory sound art and has made sound pieces using electro- magnetic induction since the end of the 1970s. in the invisible Copenhagen solo city walk that shifts the perception of everyday reality by giving She studied painting and later on composition and substance to invisible wavelengths and charges. electronic music. She works in several artistic disci- September 4th - September 19th, 2009 What will you hear? The electromagnetic fi elds that surround us in plines – such as sound installation, visual arts and Start from: Jazz Kælderen, Skindergade 19, Kbh K electroacoustic composition. Her career of exhibi- Monday - Friday: 11.00 - 19.00 / Saturday: 10.00 - 17.00 the city hidden in security gates, antennas, cash machines, retail dis- tions and performances spans more than thirty years plays, microphone systems, etc. manifest themselves as drones, hums, and includes numerous solo exhibitions and festivals SPECIAL EVENTS: pure tones, beeping patterns and many other musical sounds. such as Documenta in Kassel, the Venice Biennale Friday September 4th – Jazz Kælderen and Ars Electronica. She is professor of audiovisual Remember – it is not a recording you are hearing but a real-time, 17.00: Opening. Solo performance by Christina Kubisch arts at the Academy of Fine Arts, Saarbrücken and Tuesday September 8th – Jazz Kælderen unplugged experience of otherwise invisible and inaudible sounds that lives and works in Berlin. 18.30: Christina Kubsich talks about Electrical Walks are all around us, all the time. christinakubisch.de Contemporary urban life is immersed in electrically powered techno- Throughout the Electrical Walks period, an exhibition logy. Illuminated advertising, security systems, telephone exchanges, of prints by Christina Kubisch is on display at Jazz Kælderen. The Jazz Kælderen café will also have a retail displays and screens all constantly emit electromagnetic fi elds into special electrical menu during the period. Walk, our environment, but remain hidden under cloaks of invisibility. performance, talk and exhibition are all free of charge. Christina Kubisch has suggested a route through the local environ- ment manifesting intriguing, humorous and surprising aural experiences ELECTRICAL WALKS: København is presented by ELECTRICAL WALKS: København is supported by: along the way. the Wundergrund Festival and Goethe-Institut SNYK, Statens Kunstråd, Københavns Kommune, Dänemark, in partnership with Jazz Kælderen. Perception of everyday reality changes when one listens to the elec- Goethe-Institut Dänemark, Sonning-Fonden, wundergrund.dk / goethe.de / jazzmusic.dk trical fi elds; what is familiar becomes foreign. Nothing appears the way it Dansk Komponist Forening and DJBFA

sounds and nothing sounds the way it appears. Denise Burt (elevator-design.dk) Thanks to Jan Gorm Madsen, Hirschsprung

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