SONIC ACTS FESTIVAL
The Geologic Imagination
26 FEB– 01 MAR 2015
EXPLORATIONS IN ART, MUSIC & SCIENCE WWW.SONICACTS.COM AMSTERDAM 03 Introduction
05 Conference
31 Live Performances
51 Installations, Screenings, Masterclasses, Publication
57 Practical Information 2 12/36/55 46 Kode9 37 17/40/55 37 45 Karborn 37 Juha 43 30 13 45 25 22/55 20/40 26 46 44 Jacaszek 30 41 48 10/55 34 49 32 20/34 17 Emptyset 26 27 49 07 46 40 24 25 34 09 Artist A-Z Kurt Hentschläger Killing Sound Karl Lemieux Karen Gwyer Joris Strijbos Jonathan Hagstrum John Tresch John Foxx Jeff VanderMeer Jananne Al-Ani Jana Winderen Jamie Kruse Jaki Liebezeit Hillel Schwartz Herman Kolgen Grischa Lichtenberger Graham Harman Gert JanPrins Gabriel Paiuk Florian Hecker Espen Sommer Eide Elizabeth Ellsworth Ele Carpenter Ekkehard Windrich Douglas Kahn Burnt Friedman BJ Nilsen Benjamin H.Bratton Ben Woodard Bas van Koolwijk Alan Weisman 36 38 14 55 41 Murcof 45 37 21 54 43 15/55 06 43/52 37 M.E.S.H. 12/55 18/55 46 44 Kwartludium 46 Visionist 37 Vessel 50 Tonaliens 08 37 TCF 48 sYn 45 48 Shxcxchcxsh 48 Shapednoise 48 Shackleton 41 50/55 45 22 33 29/53 37/44 14
part wildhorses mane Otto Piene Noam M.Elcott Nik Gaffney Mumdance &Logos Minor Science Michael Welland Michael Snow Matthijs Munnik Martin Howse Mark Williams Mario deVega Liam Young Le Révélateur Timothy Morton Steve D'Agostino Rod MacLachlan Robin Hayward Robert Curgenven Rob Holmes Reza Negarestani Raviv Ganchrow Maia Pedro Paul Bogard Lukas Marxt on bothsides Sonic Acts
four smaller lakes,andsince2014 theentiresouth- forfed irrigation projects.Itsplitinto it werediverted the lakehasbeen shrinkingbecausetherivers that of thefour largestlakesintheworld.Since1960s Kazakhstan andUzbekistan. Before 1989this was one influence istheAralSeaon theborderbetween hasbeenaffected byhumans’.Earth of the festival moleculeonthesurface that‘every that accompaniesthe inthebook Use Interpretation states inhisinterview processes. MatthewCoolidgeof theCenter for Land annually thanrivers, erosionandother nonhuman that humansmove moresediment,sandandrocks force onageologicscale.Scientistshave estimated crust. IntheAnthropocene,humanshave becomea the atmosphere,oceans,andeven theEarth’s activity hasirreversibly changedthecompositionof in anewgeologicalepoch:theAnthropocene.Human point for thisfestivalstarting isthethesisthatwelive Imagination is underground. deep oceans,moreabouttheskiesthanwhat probably knowmoreabouttheMoonthan actually knowaboutthegroundbeneathourfeet? We Buthowmuchdowe still transmittingdatato Earth. approximately 19.5 billion kilometresfromtheSun,is entered interstellar space,andatadistanceof dispatched byNASAin1977, hasleftoursolarsystem, We have ventured farinto outer space.Voyager 1, Introduction Ima Th Another powerful example of radicalhuman Another powerful Inspired bygeosciences, zooms in on planet Earth. A fundamental Afundamental zoomsinonplanetEarth. e
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INTRODUCTION 3 4 INTRODUCTION them imaginable. to reflectonthesetransformations andmake feel, touch, andexperience. geological scalecanbecome somethinghumanscan the changesandtransformations thatoccuron a science mapanddocument newinsights,andhow the planet?Withfestival and weexamine howart of nature,andourintentions andinteractions with How doweunderstandthesystems andprocesses culture andecology. Howdoweconceive of theworld? attachments to theworld,andourconcepts of nature, the sunrisetwiceabove edge. theplanet’s curved in90minutes andsee Station, travel aroundtheEarth can loginto thelivestream of theInternational Space time of thedayonourcommunicationdevices.We fromspaceatany space. NowwecanlookatEarth planetfromouter simply becausewecouldsee‘our’ to have spawnedanewecologicalconsciousness, missions madesuchanimpactthattheyarethought takenduring theApollo the colourphotos of Earth At theendof the1960s in theimagesof Earth. the perceivable. This shiftisalsomarkedbychanges has shifted to forces thatactontimescales beyond a worlddefinedbyhumanhistory. Theperspective Anthropocene isthattheemphasisnolongeron to wirelesstelecom frequencies. electromagnetic radiationrangingfromradiowaves brightly ‘lit-up’ withnot onlyvisiblelight,butalsowith resemble agiantChristmastree,planetthatis fromouter space.Whatwewouldsee at Earth with theappropriate sensesandsensors,looked activity isalsoenormous.Supposewewereequipped Sea just30years agoisnowtheAralkumdesert. eastern basinhaddriedup. Mostof whatwastheAral Artist A-Z Sonic Acts invites artists and theorists andtheorists Sonic Actsinvites artists All of this challengesusto rethinkour The consequenceof thethesisof the The electromagneticfootprint of human The GeologicImagination
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EXHIBI- 5 6 CONFERENCE that influence thelandscapearoundthem. At first, their ancestors have beendeveloping technologies than twomillion years, and in allthattimehumansand of humanevolution extendsThe history backfor more magnitude’.This invites thoughtat‘Earth isnot justabouthumansanymore. human history Even speeds– arenowseenascloselyintertwined. occurring ondifferent timescalesandatdifferent thought to betwocompletely different disciplines –once of theEarth and thehistory Human history what itmeansto imagineevents onageologicscale. consequences of thethesisof theAnthropocene,and In thefirstsessionweconsidersome of the humans canfeel, touch, andexperience? that occuronageologicalscalebecomesomething document newinsights.Howcantransformations andsciencemap the planet,aboutwaysart nature, andourintentions andinteractions with understanding thesystems andprocessesof How doweconceiveoftheworld?Itisabout our concepts ofnature,cultureandecology? How dowerethinkourattachmentsto theworld, reflect onthethemeof TheGeologicImagination. andresearchersto philosophers, theorists,artists, The conference bringstogether scientists, Paradiso 10:30–12:30 Thu 26Feb Mag Ea ‘Anthropocene’ Perspective The HumanImpactfroma Geological Mark Williams(withJanZalasiewicz)
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Thu 26Feb the work by refracting it through electrical storms in the workbyrefracting itthroughelectrical storms in vibrational energy. Douglas Kahn’s talk willapproach Hinterding Earthstar The work and popular sciencebooks result of humanactivity. of two Williamsisco-author the biosphereisnowfundamentallychangingasa andhow of life andplanetEarth, in theco-evolution Leicester University. interested Williamsisparticularly inthedistantpast? changes thatbesettheEarth significance alongsidesome of thegreatgeological perspective, anddoeshumaninfluencerankin the influence of humanssignificantfromageological of theoceans.Is the atmosphereandchemistry water supplies,andarechangingthecompositionof have fundamentallymodifiedtheroutes of rivers and the complex subterranean metrosystems. Humans materials, both above andbelowground,including afossil recordof their megacities thatwillpreserve modified thelandscape, for example, bybuilding existence of manyspecies.Humanshave significantly environmental degradationthatthreatens the dispersed. And,humanshave causedwidespread and domesticated speciesthatisalmostglobally modified thebiosphere,leavingtraces of aninvasive early eighteenth century. Humanshave dramatically been growingsincetheIndustrialRevolution inthe of complex urbansocieties.Humaninfluencehas a surplusof energythatenabledthedevelopment Later, asinnovation accelerated, agricultureprovided simple stone tools aidedinfindingandpreparing food. Paradiso 10:30–12:30 Ocean Worlds Electrical Storm intheBlueMountains Kahn Douglas Mark Williams
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is anexploration of electromagneticand , (2014). , (2014). as Understood through an asUnderstood throughan byDavidHainesandJoyce
(UK) isProfessor of Geologyat The GoldilocksPlanet Earth Magnitude (2012), (2012),
CONFERENCE 7 8 CONFERENCE of theWorld Hyperobjects: PhilosophyandEcology after theEnd the authorof eleven books,themostrecentbeing is oriented thoughtandecologicalstudies. Morton Houston. Hisworkexplores theintersection of object- Rita SheaGuffey ChairinEnglishatRiceUniversity, hyperobjects, aresubscendent inpreciselythisway. phenomena (megacities,globalwarming),the the massive ones.Andallkindsof contemporary beings arenecessarilyfragileandincomplete, even for thinkingecologicalbeings.Inanworld, useful explains whythisnewconcept isvery Morton Inthis talk always lessthanthesumof itsparts? component piecesinsuchawaythatthewholeis about theinverse, wheresomethingshrinksinto its We have allheardof transcendence.Butwhat Subscendence Arts 2013), and Magnitude intheArts include University of NewSouthWales, Sydney. Hisbooks &Design, UNSWArt Institute for ExperimentalArts, space andterrestrial. out into the ozone. theatreof of aromato amemory theory a vibratory terrestrial radioinfluencedbysolarwinds,andthrough to asinglewavelength of theSun,throughcopperto and biophysicalregisters. Itistunedthroughhydrogen and imagesinvoke frequencies insensory, physical the BlueMountainsnearSydney. Paradiso 10:30–12:30 Thu 26Feb (MIT Press, 1999). Earthstar Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Signal:Energies andEarth SoundEarth Earth Timothy Morton Timothy Morton Douglas Kahn
Noise Water Meat: A History of Sound in the of Soundinthe Noise Water Meat:AHistory elements (2013). proposes that when one ventures proposesthatwhenoneventures therearethreeweathers–solar, (University of California Press, (US)isProfessor attheNational (US)isProfessor andthe Earthstar Earth Magnitude ’s objects
How canwecontinueto have aworld Thu 26Feb University of Arizonafrom2004 to 2013. Muchof his in Journalism and LatinAmericanStudies atthe the realquestionbroachedby contemplating aworldwithoutushelps usto answer In hispresentation,Weisman willexplain how underlying principlesaren’t theoretical, butecological. and ourenvironmental impactwould beerased.Its long itwouldtakebefore thetracesof ourpresence of nature wouldrespondto ourabsence–andhow howtherest knowledgeable locals,andother experts Then hetravelled theglobeto learnfromscientists, what we’d leave behindifwewereto suddenly vanish. consider depressingandscary. Hesimplyimagined be readbypeoplewhousuallyavoid topics they about theglobalenvironmental crisisthatwould Weisman Alan Alan Weisman challengedhimself to write abook climate ismysterious to us. human beingsover other entities. The Anthropocene to theautonomy of objectsanddoesnot privilege vigour, alsoinrecentphilosophythattriesto dojustice detached fromthehumanmindhasbeentakenupwith remain. The questionof howwecanthinkaboutaworld rubble, butradioactive waste andbronzestatueswould simultaneously. Trees andplantswouldreducecitiesto planet couldlooklikeifallthehumansdisappeared The book Paradiso 14:00–15:15 Be Th Alan Weisman World WithoutUs,World WithUs
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CONFERENCE 9 10 CONFERENCE Bruno Latour, thePolitical Reassembling and Whistles:MoreSpeculative Realism Weird Lovecraft Realism: andPhilosophy philosophy. Hehaswritten eleven books,mostrecently in Cairo. Heisachiefexponent of object-oriented University Professor attheAmericanUniversity human society, economics. art, fields thathave been ‘anthropocene’ fromthestart: is independentof us,andthesameholdsfor other Anthropocene climate isgenerated byhumansand fromhumans. no autonomous realityapart The of some entitydoesnot implythattheentityhas humans areinvolved asingredientsinthecreation that isseldomacknowledged.Namely, thefactthat philosophicaldistinction to recogniseanimportant Anthropocene andtheAnthropocentriccompelsus rather thanhumansupremacy. This splitbetweenthe that ithighlightsthefragilityof thehumanspecies Anthropocentric The proposedAnthropoceneEpochisnot an Future onEarth? recent bookis a NewYork Times andinternational bestseller. Hismost intersect. Weisman’s international relations,andhumansocietyculture writing isabouthowtheenvironment, economics, Paradiso 14:00–15:15 Thu 26Feb Graham Harman Anthropocene Ontology Graham Harman
Countdown: OurLast,BestHopefor a Epoch, for theobvious reason (2013). The World WithoutUs (US) is Distinguished (US)isDistinguished The World BeyondHumans (2013), and (2013),and (2014). (2012), (2007) was Bells Bells
Thu 26Feb Paradiso 15:45–17:00 Lukas Marxt,
High Tide High , 2013 Landscapes 3.0
CONFERENCE 11 12 CONFERENCE have become soinextricable?the realand artificial Arethesedichotomies stillmeaningful when artificial? and whatisto beunderstood asconstructed and the newstandardof directperceptions. What isreal, outnumber directperceptions, orrather, have become mediated representationsof therealworldseem to and hownaturalisourexperience of nature,nowthat way of depictinglandscape.Hownatural isthisnature, approachandapurelysynthetic realistic, documentary Hentschläger’s to pursue thisquest. provide opportunities geographies suchasoilrigsorArcticcoastlines goal is‘to capture time’. placesandviolent Deserted capture abird’s-eye-view of thelandscape. evidence of alandscape, human comprehension.Whereas and showlandscapesonageologictimescalebeyond landscapes. Both filmsdealwithslowtransformations transfix thegazeonpost-apocalyptic andpre-human High Tide Lukas Marxt screensandtalksabouthisfilms talksmoderated byMirnaBelina. three filmswithartist nature andlandscape.Itcombinesthescreeningof waysto visualise This sessionisaboutcontemporary Paradiso 15:45–17:00 Thu 26Feb L Kurt Hentschläger Kurt To Measureornot to Measure Hentschläger Kurt Lukas Marxt Directed Oscillation Lukas Marxt
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Fri 27Feb He istheauthor of between sciences andother culturalformations. Pennsylvania. Treschs’ workexplores theinteractions andSociologyof ScienceattheUniversity of History stillresoundstoday. Earth andsociety.of humanindustry the Their callto ‘hear’ geology’s darkandhiddenpasttheilluminations new blossoms arehumansandtheirtechnologies. These whoselatest personifications of aliving,growingearth, Anthropocene. Very compellingaretheRomanticera’s has roots thatlongprecedediscussionsof the The notion thathumansplayaroleinnature’s creation cultural conceptions of darknessandthenight? forms. Whatchangeshave occurred inour and art is perceived andrepresented indifferent culturalareas this sessionwetakealookattheideaof howdarkness our illuminated citiesarevisiblefromouter space.In Instead, no longerbeseenfrommanyplacesonEarth. thenightissobrightthatMilkyWay can century lighting, andtheelectrification of theworld.In21st withstreetlights,better indoor nineteenth century and darkness.Butthenightchangedduring of thenight activity wasdetermined bydarkness. The realdarkness The nightwasoncepitch dark.Nocturnalhuman Paradiso 10:30–12:30 ‘ cosmograms
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informed ourcultural conception of night an ’ rewrote Machine The Romantic ged (US)isAssociate Professor of the e Genesis, N i ght How theNightChanged incorporating incorporating (2013).
CONFERENCE 13 14 CONFERENCE Artificial Light Artificial of Night:Searchingfor Natural DarknessinanAgeof University inHarrisonburg,Virginia.His book and environmental literature with darkness. darkness; weshouldgooutside andcomefaceto face we shouldneitherignorenor avoid the metaphorical us to theworldanduniverse. Andhearguesthat defining experiences of ourculture,onethatconnects for humanhealth.Lightpollutiontakesawayoneof the the brightnessendangersourenvironment andisbad we loseifbanishdarkness? Paul Bogardshowshow considered to begood,anddarknessbad.Butwhatdo Our worldgrowsever brighter. Generally andmedia. of modernart andtheory history and aneditor of andArchaeologyatColumbiaUniversity History of Art their subjects. media,and dark placeshelpedto shapemodernart, the velvet lighttrapsknownas‘blackscreens’. These century, darknesswascontrolledintheatresusing the lightsintheirtheatres.Bylate nineteenth photographic darkrooms,andimpresariosextinguished cleaved blacknessfromdarkness,inventors patented darkness. Inthenineteenth century, physiologists of artificial Less familiaristhehistory media andart. the dark,disenchantnight,andcreate new light to conquer The modernsmobilisedartificial Paradiso 10:30–12:30 Fri 27Feb Paul Bogard
Know Darkness Paul Bogard Noam M.Elcott Darkness Artificial Noam M.Elcott
(2013)isacall to defend thenight. Grey Room
(US) teaches creative nonfiction
(US) isAssistantProfessor . He specialises in the . Hespecialisesinthe at James Madison atJamesMadison How theNightChanged light is light is The End The End
Fri 27Feb Dark Interpreter audiodivinationmodule,aka of theskin-driven publishes, lectures andexhibits, and isthecreator critical misuseof scientifictechnology. Heperforms, proposes thatwecanreturn to animismthrough the and thehumanpsyche (psychogeophysics). Howse (geophysical phenomena),software, between theEarth physical scienceof electricity. and new technological animism,basedonthehistory and tongue fragility. The lecture will bringto lighta currents andatmosphericsignalswithvocal bone- unitingdeepearth as lightpassedthroughacrystal, frequency, electricmodulationof thehumanvoice willattempt ahigh Howse’s lecture-performance and forces, yet thisdomainembracesalllight. a darkinvisible other, aconspiracyof unseenfields The domainof electromagneticsisconceived as their work. The sessionismoderated byNikGaffney. are beginningto explore various forms of radationin invisible andusuallyinaudible.Moremoreartists isenormous.Allof thisradiationis activity onEarth radiation. The electromagneticfootprint of human but isnowalsoshroudedinallkindsof anthropogenic isconstantlybombardedbycosmicrays, The Earth Paradiso 14:00–16:00 Martin Howse Martin
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CONFERENCE 15 Fri 27 Feb Noise in the Electromagnetic Spectrum Fri 27 Feb Noise in the Electromagnetic Spectrum 17 14:00–16:00 14:00–16:00 Paradiso Paradiso
James Ginzburg & Paul Purgas Signal CONFERENCE James Ginzburg and Paul Purgas of Emptyset talk about their new project Signal, a radio-based performance that works directly with ionospheric propagation as a live sonic sculptural process and compositional tool. Signal uses real-time radio broadcasting and receiving, bouncing a signal across the ionosphere to integrate atmospheric noise into an analogue signal chain. It examines the transmission of
PHOTO: J. GINSBURG J. PHOTO: basic sound sources and explores their ornamentation Nauen Transmitter Station in Nauen, Germany through environmental and atmospheric conditions. James Ginzburg (UK) and Paul Purgas (UK) have collaborated as Emptyset since 2005. In their work they examine the physical properties of sound through electromagnetism, architecture and process- based image making, and reflect on the perceptual boundaries between noise and music.
Karl Lemieux Quiet Zone
Karl Lemieux’ new filmQuiet Zone (2015) takes us into the world of people who suffer from electromagnetic hypersensitivity – a phenomenon whereby the fear of electricity and radiation takes over your life. These people have settled in West Virginia, US, around the Green Bank Observatory in the area known as the National Radio Quiet Zone. The sounds and images in Quiet Zone distort reality to sensitise us to the pain and distress of electro-sensitive people. Karl Lemieux screens his film – a hypnotic search for a radiation-free zone – and provides elucidation. Karl Lemieux’s (CA) films, installations, and performances have been shown internationally. He is known as the ninth member of Godspeed You! Black
CONFERENCE Karl Lemieux, Quiet Zone, 2015 Emperor for whom he does live 16 mm film projections. 16 18 CONFERENCE landscapes, alienterrains andindustrialecologies. to investigateto theendsof forgotten theearth Unknown FieldsDivision,anomadic studiothattravels urbanismsandco-runs speculative andimaginary a groupthatexplores thepossibilitiesof fantastic, is founder of thethinktank Tomorrows Thoughts Today, in thespacesbetweendesign,fictionandfutures.He design fictions. fragments of distantlandscapesandspeculative real andtheimagined,stitched together from and technological researchsomewherebetweenthe the wondersandpossibilitiesof emergingbiological cityextrapolated from sketching outanimaginary technology,through theshadowsof contemporary Liam Young journey takesusonastorytelling sounds wenormallycannot hear? reveal? Whatknowledgedowegainfromlistening to do weperceive alandscape? Whatdo‘hidden’sounds reality onwhichwedepend.Buthowdosee? How consider theseaspects,andof bringinginto viewa are ignoredbythemediaisawayof beginningto that remainoutof sight. Travelling to territories that There aremanyaspectsof ourglobalisedcivilisation Paradiso 16:30–18:00 Fri 27Feb
Jo th Liam Young Brave NewNow Liam Young
e ur Unkno ney (UK) is anarchitect whooperates s to to wn Journeys totheUnknown Fri 27Feb Paradiso 16:30–18:00
PHOTO COURTESY LIAM YOUNG
earth mineral refinery, Inner Mongolia,2014. The lake ofradioactive waste attheworld largest rare Espen Sommer Eide,
Material Vision Material Journeys totheUnknown , 2014/2015
CONFERENCE 19 20 CONFERENCE presents hersoundworks. In herpresentationshediscussesfieldtripsand through carefullistening andthenasksquestions. issues thatarenowof grave concern.Shediscovers have accessto, Winderencommunicates stories and recording andpresentingsoundswecannot hearor ecosystems. imbalances infragileunderwater Through andhumanshave created Acidification, overfishing to eachother. landscape andhowtheviewerviewedrelate Silent Reading andscientificperformances, artistic master theobjectinview. Through acombinationof gazecannot helpbutdesireto possessand explorer’s the purposeof politics,resources,scienceorart. The process of appropriation,whetheroneisexploring for an unfamiliarlandscape,onecannot avoid acertain remote BearIslandintheBarentsSea.Inexploring developed onthe instruments andaperformance project, whichincludesthecreationof newmusical Material Vision–SilentReading Paradiso 16:30–18:00 Fri 27Feb
Jana Winderen Listening withoutgettingAnswers Jana Winderen Espen SommerEide Material Vision–SilentReading Espen SommerEide
investigates various waysof readinga (NO), seep. 40. (NO), see is an artistic research research is anartistic Journeys totheUnknown Material Vision – Material Vision– p. 34.
Sat 28Feb in theinternational energy industry. of experience intechnical andmanagementpositions universities acrosstheUS, andhasover twentyyears inOman,taughtat for theBritishGeologicalSurvey Science andtheImagination the authorof thebook sustainable resource?’ and asktheperhapssurprising question,‘Issanda some examples of thedramaticrealityof thesescales, This talkwilldiscusswhatismeantbythis,review timescale wecanseeandmeasureonaphysicalscale. than naturedoes,andchangesthelandscapeona now moves moregeologicmaterial aroundtheplanet Anthropocene –wearegeologicalagents.Humanity one of theleast acknowledgedsymptoms of the ‘natural’ cycles of erosion andsedimentationis anddisrupted the surface changed theEarth’s The scaleonwhichmankindhassoprofoundly perspectives.surprising butall-too-real frompossibly consequences, andwillseetheEarth ‘efforts’ atradicallandscapetransformation andtheir Inthissessionweexamine some of these deserts. of rivers, andthroughirrigationmadelakesinto into polders,valleys thecourses into lakes,diverted islandsfromsand,turnedlakes also created artificial roads andrailwayselectricitygrids.Humanshave Humans have builtcities,physicalinfrastructures, Paradiso 10:30–12:30 Trans La Michael Welland Landscapes Shape-Shifting Michael Welland
nd scap for Sand –AJourney Through
(UK) is a geologist and (UK) isageologistand ma (2009). Welland worked e Landscape Transformation ti on
CONFERENCE 21 22 CONFERENCE loss and displacement. loss anddisplacement. Throughout her work,Al-Anitacklesissues of conflict, Research Fellow London. atthe University of the Arts and theworkof earlyaerialphotography pioneers. unpublished reconnaissance photographs from WWI a rangeof archival material willbepresented, including films the technology of flight.Inaddition to screeningthe the development of filmandphotography inrelation to contested andhighlychargedlandscapesbyexamining which explores thedisappearance of thebodyin Aesthetics of Disappearance:ALandWithoutPeople of filmandphotographica portfolio workstitled In thelastfive years JananneAl-Anihasdeveloped Dredge ResearchCollaborative. ofand co-founder theblog Landscape Architecture attheUniversity of Florida, they maycontain. shape them,andtheunexpected designopportunities talk isatour of suchlandscapes,theinstrumentsthat formed andreformed atanacceleratingpace. This erosion andforced uplift,strangenewlandscapesare dredge cycle. Withinthiscyclic whirlwindof accelerated to naturalcycles likethe rockandwater cycles: the prosthetics produceananthropogeniccounterpart active soilsthatcovers theEarth. These landscape radically reshapingthepedosphere,thinskinof geotubes andconfineddisposalfacilities,humansare slumping With instrumentssuchasturbiditycurtains, Paradiso 10:30–12:30 Sat 28Feb Shadow Sites I Jananne Al-Ani Shadow Sites Jananne Al-Ani Rob Holmes Prosthetic Littoral Rob Holmes
(2010) and
(US) isAssistantProfessor of (IQ) is currently Senior (IQ)iscurrentlySenior mammoth Shadow Sites II Landscape Transformation , and of the , andof the (2011), (2011), The The , Sat 28Feb Paradiso 10:30–12:30 Jananne Al-Ani,still from the film
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CONFERENCE 23 24 CONFERENCE Future Constitution Luxury Software andSovereignty ecologies andbiologies.His books design problems,andthepolitics of synthetic theory, computationalmedia,infrastructure,urban socialandpolitical the intersections of contemporary at theUniversity of California, SanDiego, researches its owntail… sovereignty of grideating sensation. It’s asmart projects, orinaugurate anew geo-engineering technology closerto itsorigins,suggestalternative is created computational thatcouldre-situate for theirgovernance. Apanoptic eco-epistemology and status,inturnprovide arecursive medium sense biochemicalreserves, information infrastructures. These infrastructures on computationalplatforms to form interlocking Geography, geologyandgeodesynowconverge Bratton Benjamin things thatdefyhumancomprehension? thenonhuman forces, imagine theforce of theEarth, thoughts andhumancivilisation.Howcanwetruly W Paradiso 14:00–15:45 Sat 28Feb hat is the Earth? Earth doesnot carefor human Earth hat istheEarth? Sp Geo Benjamin H.Bratton Governors Computation: Sensors, Abstractors, Geobiopolitics andPlanetary-Scale
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Sat 28Feb Post the in humanecologies.VanderMeer writes nonfiction for delves into environmental issuesandthedysfunction international bestselling ways of lookingatthe Howcanthephilosophybehindnew revolutionary? what areoldideasinnewclothes, andwhatistruly escapism orcommodificationinnear-futurefiction, human thought.Inthismodernera,whatconstitutes comprehension whileexposing thelimitationsof Trilogy brief readingsfromhisnovels. The of hisbestselling and outdated approachesinfictionthecontext Jeff VanderMeer presentshisthoughtsonrelevant Towards aNewGeophilosophy realism. Heistheauthorof Idealism, philosophiesof becoming,andspeculative concepts of dark vitalismandnatureinGerman geophilosophy thatistrueto theEarth. elucidate. Againstthistrend,heillustrates aform of thattheyhopeto conceptually subject (theEarth) their notion of geophilosophyinfacterasesthevery as theirsource.InhislectureWoodard arguesthat with DeleuzeandGuattariwho, inturn, takeNietzsche Geophilosophy isastrandof thoughtmostassociated Paradiso 14:00–15:45 New YorkNew Times , Guardian
features AreaX,ahyperobjectthatresists Jeff VanderMeer the Duskof theAnthropocene AREA X: The FictiveImaginationin Jeff VanderMeer Ben Woodard isNot theWorld The Earth Ben Woodard
, Atlantic.com, andmore. Southern Reach TrilogyReach Southern , Los Angeles Times Los worldinform fiction? 's (CA 's Southern Reach TrilogyReach Southern (US) is the author of the (US)istheauthorof the On an Ungrounded Earth: On anUngroundedEarth: ) workfocuses onthe (2013). (2013). Speculative Geophilosophy Southern Reach Southern Reach , Washington , including , including
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CONFERENCE 25 26 CONFERENCE of Contemporary Life of Contemporary to Materialthe GeologicNow: Responses Conditions with Elizabeth Ellsworth. They edited thebook Design, NewYork. In2005, smudge sheco-founded lectureratParsons, part-time The NewSchoolfor half-life. They makemediafromwithinthispractice. and thetimescaleof radioactive material’s 24,000-year geologic imaginations: thetimescale of ahumanlife They stageameetingandmutualreframingof two nuclear waste throughUtah,NewMexico andColorado. transuranic routes usedbythetruckstransporting abject material-event. For twelve days,theytravel the mounted videocamerato seekoutaparticularly setoutwithacar- In thefallof 2012,twoartists studio smudge outlast thehumanspeciesasweknowit. waste areuncannymonumentsto humanitythatwill that lives onEarth… The mounds thatstore nuclear implies potentially communicatingwithafuturespecies nonhuman future,and,ifwetakeanethicalposition,it that theimpactof ouractivitiesstretches farinto a hundreds of thousandsof years. We have to imagine nuclearwasteHuman-created isincrediblyharmfulfor dimension of nuclearwaste istrulymind-boggling. imaginings of afutureongeologicalscale. The responses to the‘nucleardimension’, andthe approachesand In thissessionwelookatartistic Paradiso 16:15–17:30 Sat 28Feb Th Di Jamie Kruse Anthropocene: Look OnlyattheMovement Practices for Turning into the
men e Nucl sio (US) is an artist, designer and designerand (US)isanartist, (2012). (2012). n ea r The NuclearDimension Making Making
Sat 28Feb the Anthropocene. the nuclearaffects ourperception of deeptimewithin and material concernsinthenuclearcycle, andhow to radioactive divinity, therelationshipbetweensocial focuses onnuclearaestheticsfromtheatomic sublime Catalyst andGoldsmithsCollege,University of London) betweenArts Nuclear Cultureresearch(apartnership archive shouldcontainfor futuregenerations. radioactive environment, weconsiderwhatthenuclear unfold inslowmotion; as we adapt to livingina through ‘publicconsultation’. We witnessthedisaster (weapons), to private (energy), to thepublicsphere reflects theevolution of this‘hyperobject’fromstate accidents andpublicconsultationprogrammes imperceptible, theforegrounding of radiationthrough While theslowviolenceof radiationmayrenderit France. at Horonobe,Japan,andBureinnorthern laboratories for high-level radioactive waste storage and Japan,fieldtrips to undergroundresearch practicesinEurope nuclear culture,drawingonartistic Ele Carpenter introduceshercuratorial researchinto Address Positions: Difference, PedagogyandthePowerof Media, Architecture, Pedagogy isauthorof media forms. Ellsworth of mediated learningenvironments, anddocumentary and teaching focus onmediaandchange, thedesign Studies attheNewSchool,York. Herresearch Paradiso 16:15–17:30 (1997). Ele Carpenter The NuclearAnthropocene Ele Carpenter Elizabeth Ellsworth
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(US) isProfessor of Media (2004),and Placesof Learning: The NuclearDimension Teaching
CONFERENCE 27 28 CONFERENCE for LandUse Interpretation, Wendover, Utah,2009. Clean Livin’‘South Base’ (designed bySIMPARCH), Center Bure, France. Laboratory for GeologicalDisposal ofRadioactive Waste, ANDRA’s Meuse/Haute MarneUnderground Research Paradiso 16:15–17:30 Sat 28Feb
The NuclearDimension
PHOTO: ELE CARPENTER, 2014 PHOTO © SMUDGE STUDIO Sun 1Mar sensing technologies. the development of acoustic-forming andvibration- explored throughsoundinstallations, writingand between soundandspace,aspects of which are and researcher. Hisworkfocuses oninterrelations an extent thattheyspillover into weather. by gravity;andwhereoscillations slowdownto such coexist; wheresoundbecomesoheavyit’s affected calving glaciers,gasflaresandnuclear explosions project wheremarineoscillations,streakingmeteors, waves inthecontext of his Ganchrow introducesthethemeof extensive acoustic landmasswithoceansandskies.Raviv interfaces thatliterally register of animmense sonicterritory lowest thresholdof humanhearingisalsotheupper soundsdon’tnecessarilydiminish. The toned-down The saturated spectrumof infrasoundsuggeststhat Synthesis trip to soundinstallation RavivGanchrow’s frequencies.Afield andatmosphere-related earth- humanindustrialisedactivitywith of large-scale Environmental infrasoundexhibits anintermingling mudslides, atomic tests andmineexplosions. record rocketlaunches,auroras,collapsingglaciers, Infrasound-sensing stationsallover theworld oceans andweatheraswellto industrialpractices. to Infrasound literally connectsthesolidEarth Paradiso 12:00–14:00 of In T
Raviv Ganchrow In theCompanyof Long Waves Raviv Ganchrow presentstheoccasionfor thissession.
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CONFERENCE 29 30 CONFERENCE Noise: From Babel to the BigBangandBeyond Berlin. Hispublications includethe928-page was recentlyafellow attheAmericanAcademy in of millennialtransformation. Helives inCalifornia and copies andkinaesthetics,fantasies of thebodyand who haspublishedatlength onnoiseandsound, force, inclusiveness orconclusiveness? notion of change, oraparticular sense of history Do ‘longwaves’ necessitate, orimplicate, apeculiar and have beenregularlyinventoried for theircycles. Waves areimplicitlyhistorical, astheyrequiretime geology, andplate tectonics. fields of paleomagnetism,geomagnetism,structural since 1979. Hisbody of workliesprimarilywithinthe research geophysicistwiththeUSGeologicalSurvey pigeon racesbysonicbooms. in acousticshadowzones,andthedisruption of comes fromlocationswherebirdsbecomedisoriented navigation. thishypothesis The evidencesupporting might usenaturalinfrasonicsignalsfor long-range the atmosphere.JonHagstrumdiscusseshowbirds signals thatcantravel for thousands of kilometresin lowfrequencyinfrasound, Pigeons canhearvery barometric pressureandtheweakgeomagneticfield. those of humansandcandetect smallchangesin thousands of kilometres. Their sensesoutnumber Birds cannavigate accurately over hundreds to Paradiso 12:00–14:00 Sun 1Mar
Hillel Schwartz The UpsandDownsof Waves Hillel Schwartz Jonathan Hagstrum and Infrasound Avian Navigation, PigeonHoming Jon Hagstrum
(US) is a cultural historian (US)isaculturalhistorian (US) has worked as a (US)hasworkedasa The Terrain ofInfrasound
Making Making (2011).
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32 LIVE PERFORMANCES Parfums andCarlosBenaïm;IFF,Parfums asynthetic voice created byFrédéric Malle,Editions a perfume de thought, featuring thevoice of Charlotte Rampling; putting syntheticemptiness backinto synthetic A Script for MachineSynthesis objects, andtheatricalprops. Exeunt allhuman actors, are materialised throughsynthetictrophies, auditory linguistic chimerasof descriptions of smelland sound for asceneinwhich is aconceptual pointof departure 2012). The suggestive encounter with apinkicecube dOCUMENTA13, and philosopher RezaNegarestani(after sound piecesthatHeckercreated withthewriter– the climacticthirdchapter inthetrilogyof text– poetry.minimalist narratives andneo-imagist Itis Artaud’s Theatre of CrueltyasmuchBeckett’s experimental drama, amodelof abstractionthatrecalls A Script for MachineSynthesis mane onboth sides van Koolwijk and enchantinglive setsby new installationby Hecker by performance monumental multi-sensory synthetic, andderailsthesenses.Itfeatures a at theStedelijk Museumexplores therealand This festive openingnightof theSonicActsFestival Stedelijk Museum 19:00–22:00 Thu 26Feb , alectureby Open Ste A Script for MachineSynthesis Florian Hecker
, Espen SommerEide de Kurt Hentschläger Kurt . Reza Negarestani lijk Hinge in g at , Lumiar Cité, Lisbon;both Gert-Jan Prins Gert-Jan isanexperiment in isasoundpiece,an , and Chimerization , and dazzling , anddazzling Opening atStedelijk , acaptivating part wild horses wildhorses part and Florian Florian Bas Bas , Thu 26Feb of ‘theory-fiction’ withhisbook of ‘theory-fiction’ speculative realismandknown for pioneering thegenre writer associated withthephilosophical movement of than beingtrueto theEarth. itsterrestrial constitution andoverthrows supports more concernedwithreclaiming therealitythatatonce thatis paves thewayfor aphilosophyof theEarth differences initself. This Copernicanabstract machine make adifference intheworldbymakingirreversible abstraction wherebythoughtattainstheabilityto be realisedandusedasadesignated protocol of intheuniverse canindeed as reorganisingtheEarth sufficient abstraction of what for Copernicuscounts in scienceandphilosophy. Heproposesthata Copernican Revolution anditsongoingreverberations identify andunderlinethetacitdimensionof the In hispresentationRezaNegarestaniattempts to Teijin Auditorium. Saturday 28February andSunday1Marchat16:00, Stedelijk Museum, of Additional performances releases, manyof themonEditions Mego. He hasanextensive discographywithover 25 York, of 13;andatdOCUMENTA13. Performa aspart those attheSolomonR.GuggenheimMuseum,New include exhibitionsmusic. Major andperformances composer whosecompositionstend towards noise NORM, Zurich. Sound; andasyntheticpaperbookletdesignedby CAL 64ColumnArrayLoudspeaker System byMeyer Research Technology, University of Edinburgh; a designed byRobClarkandtheCentrefor Speech Stedelijk Museum 19:00–22:00 Reza Negarestani Abstract Machine Geophilosophy after theCopernican Reza Negarestani Florian Hecker
AScript for MachineSynthesis (DE) is an electronic music (DE)isanelectronicmusic (IR) is a philosopher and (IR)isaphilosopherand Cyclonopedia Opening atStedelijk (2008). on on
LIVE PERFORMANCES 33 34 LIVE PERFORMANCES specific pieces andartworks. Sommer Eide has alsoproducedaseriesof site- a stringof releasesonthelabelRune Grammofon. of experimental electronicmusicfromNorway, with from artist Tromsø. Heisaprominentrepresentative into andoutof thepresenttimeandplace. acoustic andelectronic–for thepurposeof tuning constructs hisowninstruments–hybridsbetween He Pythagorean puremathematicalintervals. ‘troll tuning’for theHardangerfiddle to relaxing systems, both newand old,fromtheeerieNorwegian Eide tapsinto hiscollectionof musicaltuning For attheStedelijk, EspenSommer his performance musicians andvisualartists. electronic circuits,andcollaborationswithcomposers, sound installations,compositions, performances, its relationshipwiththevisual.Hisworkincludeslive musical qualitiesof electronicnoiseandinvestigates installations andvideocompositions. performances, self-made software andhardwareapplicationsinlive aggressive attackontheillusionof videoitself. Heuses andnoise. rhythmical patterns, interference electronics. The resultisanaudiovisual storm of Prins) anddigital improvisations ondrums(Gert-Jan of audiodatainteracts with the ‘delay linememory’ A brandnewlive setinwhichthevisualisationof Stedelijk Museum 19:00–22:00 Thu 26Feb Espen SommerEide Instrument ProbingtheUniverse A Tuned ChordislikeaScientific Espen SommerEide Prins Gert-Jan Bas van Koolwijk Delay LineMemory Prins Bas van Koolwijk &Gert-Jan
(NL) focuses onthe sonicand ’s (NL)workcanbeseenasan (NO) isamusicianand Opening atStedelijk Thu 26Feb Stedelijk Museum 19:00–22:00 installation, 2014 Kurt Hentschläger, Bas van Koolwijk,
Delay Line Memory Line Delay Measure , panoramic audiovisual Opening atStedelijk , 2014
LIVE PERFORMANCES 35 36 LIVE PERFORMANCES the 21stcentury. body of workcentres onhowweperceive naturein mostrecent,emerging sound andfog. Hentschläger’s extreme perceptual effects, composedfromlight, visceral andimmersive, asin workischaracteristically Synthesis. Hentschläger’s duo Granular and 2003heworkedwithinthe artist Between 1992 installations andperformances. (Commissioned byAudemarsPiguet) exist. still ‘original’ questions of whether‘nature’andtheconcept of an workprobesthe Hentschläger’s organic andartificial. clouds, andever-expanding grids. The workfeels both such asthelengtheningof shadows,thepassingof forms, move freelybetweennaturalandartificial to blur.start sequencesof The trance-like boundaries betweenmediated andphysicalexperience is filtered throughdigitalcommunicationchannels,the nature inthe21stcentury. Asourexperience of nature audiovisual installationthatreflectsontheconcept of Hentschläger’s Kurt Measure duo whodefyexperiential boundaries. Kelly JayneJonesandPascal Nichols,anidiosyncratic rocks fromNorway, life force. andvitalevolutionary burstsusingcassettes, percussion, performative short sonic states throughritualisticimprovisation. Four wildhorsesmaneonboth sidesinducehermetic part Stedelijk Museum 19:00–22:00 Thu 26Feb Kurt Hentschläger Kurt Thursday 26February –Sunday1March Hentschläger Kurt wildhorsesmaneonboth sides part Experience the Time Kith, Schist;SlowingDown wild horsesmaneonboth sides part
Measure (AT) creates audiovisual ZEE (2014) is a panoramic (2014) isapanoramic and
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Thu 26Feb experimental musicscene. a shadowy, to techno-aesthetic itsbarestessence. Jabu collective; thistimeitsmembers of the endlessly recombinant Bristol-based Young Echo bewitching broth of houseandtechno. Finlayson, anelectronicmusician whomakeshisown warmer, futuristic housegenre. with heavysynths,casuallysummoningfeelings of a to create hypnotic slowtracks. Shemixes African beats (techno) musicto thefloor. Berlin, willbringas-of-yet ‘homeless’underground figure intheundergroundartist/club communityin concrète composition. Hiscompositionsdrawfrom andmusical the themesof code,cryptography andmusicianwhoseworkexplores Holdhus isanartist Vessels are inspiredbythemusicandvisualuniverse of exciting, unclassifiableideas. with producers whopropelelectronicmusicforward sounds andadventurous rhythms. underground clubcultures,filled to thebrimwithwild an action-packedinsiderperspective onunrestrained In collaborationwith OT301 21:30–03:00 areatthecontrols. The collective reduces ’ s lastalbum at S Juha Killing Sound Minor Science Karen Gwyer M.E.S.H. TCF Vessel , hardstyle, poetry anddigitalartifacts. , hardstyle,poetry
OT301 on (NO) orLars Future The Contemporary (FI/NL)isafigurehead of theAmsterdam (UK)isoneof anewgenerationof ic Act (US/DE), a producer and influential (US/DE),aproducerandinfluential Punish Honey Viral Radio (US) combines house and techno (US)combineshouseandtechno (UK)isyet another outgrowth (UK) is the alias of Angus (UK)isthealiasof Angus Pedro Maia s
, SonicActsoffers Vessel . , El Kid ’ s (PT) visuals s (PT)visuals musique musique and and At OT301
LIVE PERFORMANCES 37 38 LIVE PERFORMANCES Heinz Mackin 1957. European postwar movement Group Zero with the 1972 Olympics.Pienefounded theinfluential Rainbow sculptures, includingthe600-metre-long paintingsandgiganticopen air for hiscolourful the scaleandlight. immerse yourself by initandbecomeoverwhelmed image, whichiseven morebeguilingwhenyou can reminds theviewerof themagicof theprojected Piene projections thatsplayacrossvarious surfaces. journey throughspace’. The visitor isimmersedin screen array, creatingwhatPienecalleda‘poetic painted glassslidesareprojected onto ahugemulti- shimmeringshapesonhand- projectors. Colourful 1967, usinghundredsof slides,sound,andmultiple originallyconceived in is amultimediaperformance, Die Sonnekommtnäher/ The Proliferation of theSun magic visuals. landscapes, andanalchemyof surroundsoundand rumblings, electromagneticpollution,synaesthetic remote locations,soundsfromunderwater, seismic multiplicationof suns,fieldrecordingsfrom colourful An immersive programmeof soundandvision,witha Muziekgebouw aan'tIJ 21:00–02:00 Fri 27Feb
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PHOTO: ANNETTE WOLFSBERGER during DarkEcology 2014. Jana Winderen recording for 2014 Karl Lemieux, At Muziekgebouw aan'tIJ unearthed Pasvikdalen , LineValley,
LIVE PERFORMANCES 39 40 LIVE PERFORMANCES of timeandspaceas experienced throughsound. nature anditseffects onhumans,andtheperception Hefocuses primarilyonthesoundof recording artist. of vegetation.’ the reflective façadesonthebuildingsand thelack in someopen-airlocations,perhaps resultingfrom buildings. echoeffect There isalsoaninteresting short travels inunexpected patterns betweentheblocksof wind, theacousticsaremorenoticeable andsound smoke. The airisdifficult to breath today. With little chimneys hissandgrowlastheyspewoutcloudsof collaboration Karl Lemieux collected material for theiraudiovisual decay andheavypollution,iswhereBJNilsen sparse beautyof theArcticlandscapemeetsindustrial andRussia,wherethe The borderareaof Norway over theworldand arereleasedby Touch. immersive multichannelworkshave beenstagedall and strangenessof theunseenworldbelowus.Her with thelatest technology, andexposes thecomplexity andRussia. close to theborderbetweenNorway based onrecordingsmadeboth above andunderwater never heard.JanaWinderen’s newwork themselves throughthesilenceof specieswehave mind. Invisible butaudible,theconsequencesreveal Pasvikdalen acceleration, moving outof sight,butnot outof Drifting awayfromastate of stability, blurring Muziekgebouw aan'tIJ 21:00–02:00 Fri 27Feb
Karl Lemieux BJ Nilsen unearthed BJ Nilsen&KarlLemieux Jana Winderen Jana Winderen
unearthed. unearthed. (SE)isacomposer, soundand (Premiere) (CA), seep. 17. (Premiere) (NO) researcheshidden depths ‘Nikel’s redandwhite At Muziekgebouw aan'tIJ Pasvikdalen
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Fri 27Feb considered classics intheirfield. textures, sounds andrhythms.Hisalbumsare with orchestral samples,microscopicallydetailed by classicalandelectronicminimalism, Murcof works musician andcomposerFernando Corona.Influenced Whitney, JordanBelson,andOskarFischinger. qualities of visualmusicpioneersJohn andJames Maclachlan drawswithlight and lensesto evoke the film andtheaesthetics of analoguesci-fieffects, and surroundsound.Inspiredbystructural-materialist Maclachlan create amesmerisingexperience of light far, faraway’. Murcof andvisualalchemist Rod characterised as‘Sunn0))) playingLigetiinagalaxy music hecreates epic,moving suites, andhasbeen Drawing onminimalism,postmodernismandbaroque and classicalsoundsourcesabsorbsthelistener. combinationof broodingelectronics Murcof’s and soundsculptures. installations, videoandfilmworks,performances relationship betweensoundandimageto create material fromtheintimate Hedrawshisprimary artist. resistance andtremor-related phenomenainreal-time. that tapsinto seismic waves, frictional performance sonic dislocations. clash andcollideagainstabackdropof visualand waves, rumblingmatter, abstractionsandmotifs friction,magnetic the unknown,wheresedimentary Seismik A dramaticdescentunderground,beneaththerubble. Seismik Muziekgebouw aan'tIJ 21:00–02:00 invites us to take a multisensory leap into leapinto invites usto takeamultisensory
Murcof Albedo Murcof &RodMaclachlan Herman Kolgen Herman Kolgen
(MX) istheMexican electronic Seismik (CA) is a multidisciplinary (CA) isamultidisciplinary is a tension-charged AV isatension-charged At Muziekgebouw aan'tIJ
LIVE PERFORMANCES 41 42 LIVE PERFORMANCES Herman Kolgen, Matthijs Munnik&JorisStrijbos, Muziekgebouw aan'tIJ 21:00–02:00 Fri 27Feb Otto Piene,
Die Sonne kommt näher kommt Sonne Die
Seismik , 2014 U-AV #2 U-AV , 2015 v At Muziekgebouw aan'tIJ
PHOTO: ZERO FOUNDATION. Fri 27Feb impact of telecommunications technology. perception aswellthesocial,political andphysical thatexplores theboundariesof human intervention MariodeVega.Mexican soundartist Sonic Actspresents hallof theMuziekgebouwaan’tIJ, In thelargeentry distortions. induce sensory often As aresult,hisinstallationsandperformances perception. who explores thefringesof humansensory develops kinetic-light-installations. and expanded (live) cinemaandaudio performance, the audienceinameditative andhypnotic zone. audiovisual senses, theworkopensupandenvelops As theinstallationrelentlesslyover-stimulates the structures, generative videoandstroboscopiclight. synaesthetic landscapesfromelectronicsound In of time. assemblages explore materiality, entropyandcycles lanterns, fantascopesandmegascopes.Hisvisual projection to gas-andlimelight-poweredmagic techniques suchassimplecandlelitwhite-shadow experimental projection workthatexplores pre-cinema Muziekgebouw aan'tIJ 21:00–02:00 U-AV Joris Strijbos and Matthijs Munnik build JorisStrijbosandMatthijsMunnikbuild
Mario deVega Dolmen Mario deVega Matthijs Munnik Joris Strijbos U-AV #2 Matthijs Munnik&JorisStrijbos Rod Maclachlan
Dolmen (NL) works in the fields of (NL)worksinthefields of (MX),seep. 52. (UK)initiated abodyof (NL) is a new-media artist (NL)isanew-mediaartist , a new installation by , anewinstallationby At Muziekgebouw aan'tIJ Dolmen is an isan
LIVE PERFORMANCES 43 44 LIVE PERFORMANCES Demdike Stare,Vessel, and Shackleton. collaborated witha.o. Lee Ranaldo, Fennesz, Jacaszek, of live cinema,manipulatingimages inrealtime.Hehas Stockhausen, CorneliusCardew, and DubravkoDetoni. as graphicandintuitive compositions by Karlheinz by young composersinPoland andabroad,aswell works performs and Piotr Nowicki(piano). Kwartludium (clarinet, bassclarinet),Paweł Nowicki(percussion), 2002 byDagnaSadkowska(violin), MichałGórczyński The focus ontheatre andfilmmusic. with aprimary composer andproducerof electroacousticmusic, provides ghostlyvisuals. secretlybymybeloved trees’.performed Pedro Maia soundscapes. Jacaszekcallsthem‘forgotten songs electronically processedinto acollectionof eight ensemble,and are bytheKwartludium performed are The piano, clarinets,violinandpercussionparts in subduedandsparseelectroacousticsoundscapes. drone of outdoor recordings byJacaszek,resulting ensemble are setagainstanorganic Kwartludium Instrumental andvoice improvisations bythe techno. Thrilling andmind-blowing. night withsecretrhythmsandexperimental dark audiovisual experience andcontinuesdeepinto the with An exhilarating programmeorganisedincooperation Paradiso 22:00–04:00 Sat 28Feb Rewire S Parad Pedro Maia Jacaszek Catalogue desArbres Jacaszek &Kwartludium
on thatprobesthedeeperlevels of the Kwartludium ic Actsat (PL) lives in Gdansk and is a (PL)lives inGdanskandisa (PT) works within the boundaries (PT)workswithin theboundaries iso ensemble(PL)wasformed in At Paradiso
Sat 28Feb like satellites aroundeachother. and The musicof innovative grimeproducers blowing piecesinwhichbeauty anddisorderinteract. processes withorganicelements to create mind- Add N To (X),AlisonGoldfrapp, andDavidSylvian. collaborated witha.o. Thurston Moore,DepecheMode, music producer andsoundengineer.artist, Hehas the originalleadvocalist of thebandUltravox. associated withelectronicsynthesisermusic.Hewas analogue synthswithhauntingvisualsbyKarborn. sinister sonicarchitecture of drum machinesand pleasures of temporal displacement, combiningthe A soundandvideoinvestigation into theterrors and space andtheflow of time. also thewayinwhichitcanshapeourperceptions of of sound–not justitsphysicalimpactonthebody, but whodrawsinspirationfromthephysicality sound artist dubplates, turntablesandlowfrequencyoscillators. alongside newworkwithpipeorgan,guitarfeedback, ten years inover 30remote locationsinAustralia, history, renderedviafieldrecordingsgathered over physicalnegotiation of territories voidedA very by Paradiso 22:00–04:00 Logos Mumdance &Logos Karborn Steve D’Agostino John Foxx of TimeTravelEvidence John Foxx andSteve D’Agostino Curgenven Robert like ascar, itswallowedthem and, They tore theearth Curgenven Robert
emphasisesspace, withbeatsthatrevolve (John Leigh) (UK)combines digital (UK) is singer and artist, primarily primarily (UK)issingerandartist, (UK) is a recording (UK) isarecording (AU) is a composer and (AU)isacomposerand
Mumdance At Paradiso
LIVE PERFORMANCES 45 46 LIVE PERFORMANCES including grime, futuregarage,anddubstep. Visionist's futuresoundblendsdifferent genres, Visionist owner of theHyperdublabel,andhauntingly elusive. One of thefounders of dubstep, geneticallyajunglist, Kode9 electronic imageandsound. to explore theirfascinationwithcombinations of broad arrayof digitalandanaloguetechnologies SabrinaRatté. inclusion of videoartist They use a (CA) hasexpanded into anaudiovisual duowiththe You! BlackEmperorandFlyPan Am), electronic musicianRoger Tellier-Craig (Godspeed in2008asasolo venture of Montreal-based Started recognisable, alsoinhisremixes for other artists. polyrhythmic patterns have becomeinstantly producer. Over theyears histrademarkcomplex including JahWobble andBrianEno Krautrock. Hehasrecordedwithnumerousmusicians, influential bands of alltime,whichhelped to define as afounding memberof Can,oneof themost archaic metalpercussionandsynthinstruments. radical drumcodeinunisonwithFriedman’s rangeof Central to theSecretRhythmsconcept isLiebezeit’s umpteen recordsandcountlesslive performances. on theseriesfor over years, fourteen generating Liebezeit andFriedman have beencollaborating Paradiso 22:00–04:00 Sat 28Feb Le Révélateur Burnt Friedman Jaki Liebezeit Secret Rhythms Jaki Liebezeit&BurntFriedman
(DE)isadrummer, bestknown (DE) is a musician and (DE)isamusicianand . Le Révélateur At Paradiso
Sat 28Feb Paradiso 22:00–04:00
cover for John Foxx and Steve D’Agostino feat. Karborn, Le Révélateur Evidence of Time Travel Time of Evidence , 2014 At Paradiso
LIVE PERFORMANCES 47 48 LIVE PERFORMANCES experimental noisemusician producer by theelectronics,noiseand speaker-rippingtechno World premiereof Metaphysical in 2012. the QuietHour/ The Drawbar OrganEPs together withAppleblim.Histhirdalbum, of dubstep, labelSkullDisco runningthenow-defunct and Indianmusic.Heemergedduringtheearlydays a widerangeof worldmusic,includingAfrican, Arabic, embraces dubstep, garage,andtechno, anddrawson of tension andparanoia, themusicof Noted for itsintense atmosphericgloom,and a sense Shackleton industrial, andmuchmore. of noise, drone,glitch, broken beats,pounding sound isadeadlyserioustechno bornoutof elements place to focus onmusic. hometown aperfect Their butthetwomembersof heart, Sweden maynot betheworld’s throbbingtechno The onceindustrialcityof Norrköpingineastern Shxcxchcxsh iv (inertia) EP refined sounds’. Lichtenberger releasedhisdebut He ispraisedfor his ‘constructivist compositionsand rhythm andmelodiesthatcreate anintimate narrative. of themusicalstructure:ahermeticidiosyncrasyof intheemotional depth heaviness, hasitscounterpart sound design,whichresemblestheforce of material The aggressive tonality of Paradiso 22:00–04:00 Sat 28Feb ~treibgut Shapednoise &sYn Grischa Lichtenberger
Shapednoise in2012. onRaster Noton in2009, followed by Metaphysical (IT) plus video artist and and (IT)plusvideo artist Grischa Lichtenberger sYn Shxcxchcxsh , the audiovisual show , theaudiovisual show (IT). Shackleton , was released , wasreleased Music for find their findtheir At Paradiso ’s (DE) (UK) (UK)
Sun 1Mar and speciallydesigned loudspeakerset-ups. and writes compositions for traditionalinstruments experience of sound.Hecreates soundinstallations whoresearchestheconditionssurrounding the artist experimental performances. of and fixed scoresandimprovised live-electronic soloist andchambermusician embracestherealisation music.Hisworkas a specialised incontemporary perception inourmedia-saturated culture. Greifen its interaction withsoundreproduction(loudspeakers), coalesce. Through theacousticsoundof theviolinand memories anddiverse patterns of understanding of asymbolic realm.Whenwegraspsound,corporeal timbre, asatraceof bodilyimpressions,andaspart grasp soundasmaterialising aspace,asparticular ‘Greifen’ meansto ‘grasp, grab, getholdof’. We ducing media,isdedicated to EkkehardWindrich. Gabriel Paiuk’s of soundusingjustintonation andsubtle drones. mesmerising melodic,harmonicandrhythmicmesh multiple loudspeakerset-up. Gabriel Paiuk world of serenesound. attheVondelkerkAt theclosingconcert weenter a Vondelkerk 20:00–22:00 explores theconditions thatshapesound the V S
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LIVE PERFORMANCES 49 50 LIVE PERFORMANCES drummer and sound engineer. dimensions andouter limitsof intonation. explores thespatialdimensionsof sound,andtheinner trombonist’andcomposer,proclaimed ‘desert who development of thefirstfullymicrotonal tubain2009. of the‘noise-valve’,discovery andlater throughthe techniques to brassinstruments,initiallythroughthe playing the years, hehasintroducedrevolutionary Tuning Vine)isatubaplayer andcomposer. Over instruments producecreate richtextures. the helpof digitaldelays,theunusualsoundsthese instruments) buildshisownmusicalinstruments.With the traditionof DhrupadsingingandKathakdance. composer. She studiedvocal techniques andmusicin electronics andspatialsoundprojection. Meinz enrichesthesoundwithhissubtle useof live melodic contours. The ensembleisamplifiedandRalf enhances thedroneof sinewaves andtuba,adds to thedeepestlimitof audibility. Werner Durand the harmonicspacewithhismicrotonal tubadown on trombone.RobinHaywardgraduallyexplores versions of thevocalit byplayingslowed-down lines connectsto Jeffery shifting harmonicspace.Hilary Cuni makesamelodicjourneythroughthegradually for exploring justintonation). Amelia (an interface musical relationshipsusingtheHayward Tuning Vine explore harmonicspaceandnavigate intricate and live electronics,themembersof Tonaliens With voice, brass,invented instruments,sine waves the innerdimensionsandouter limitsof justintonation. The newBerlin-basedensemble Tonaliens investigates Tonaliens Vondelkerk 20:00–22:00 Sun 1Mar
Ralf Meinz Jeffery Hilary Robin Hayward Werner Durand Amelia Cuni
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51 52 INSTALLATIONS unpredictable. unpredictable. the uncanny, theunseen,unheard,and leaves spacefor theexploration of theunknown, explore thevalue of fragilityandrandomness.He situations for specificspaces,usingthecontext to capacities andincapacitiesof humans.He produces and actions.Hisworkfocuses ontheperceptive projects,sculptures process-oriented interventions, pollution onhumans. radio signalsandintheinfluence of electromagnetic communications. The workevolved from interests in signals thatarethecarrierwaves of ourdigital the publicphysicallyawareof thepresenceof wireless impact of telecommunications technology. Itmakes perception aswellthesocial,politicalandphysical thatexplores theboundariesof human intervention infrasound orextremely highvoltages. confrontational works,which,for instance,use known –ormaybeeven notorious –for his MariodeVega.by Mexican soundartist DeVega is Sonic Actspresents hallof theMuziekgebouwaan’tIJ, In thelargeentry Installations Inst donaufestival) of SonicActsand (A co-production Muziekgebouw aan’tIJ 10:00–23:00, Thursday 26February –12March Dolmen Mario deVega Mario deVega al Dolmen lati
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Thursday 26 February 2015 Friday 27 February 2015 10:00 10:00 INSTALLATIONS INSTALLATIONS 11:00 10:30–12:30 Earth Magnitude 11:00 10:30–12:30 How the Night Changed Mark Williams, Douglas Kahn, Timothy Morton John Tresch, Noam M. Elcott, Paul Bogard Paradiso, Main Hall / p. 6 Paradiso, Main Hall / p. 13 12:00 12:00 SCHEDULETIME
10:00-23:00 10:00-23:00 13:00 13:00 Dolmen by Mario Dolmen by Mario de Vega de Vega Muziekgebouw Muziekgebouw 14:00 14:00 aan ’t IJ aan ’t IJ 14:00–15:15 The World Beyond Humans Until 12 March 14:00–16:00 Noise in the Electromagnetic Until 12 March Graham Harman, Alan Weisman Spectrum Martin Howse, Karl Lemieux, 15:00 15:00 Paradiso, Main Hall / p. 9 10:30-16:30 Paul Purgas & James Ginzburg (Emptyset)/ 10:30-16:30 La Région Paradiso, Main Hall / p. 15 La Région Centrale by Centrale by 16:00 16:00 Michael Snow Michael Snow 15:45–17:00 Landscapes 3.0 Paradiso, Small Paradiso, Small Kurt Hentschläger, Lukas Marxt Hall Hall 16:30–18:00 Journeys to the Unknown 17:00 Paradiso, Main Hall / p. 12 17:00 Liam Young, Jana Winderen, Espen Sommer 10:00–22:00 Eide / Paradiso, Main Hall / p. 18 10:00-18:00 Measure by Kurt Measure by Kurt 18:00 18:00 Hentschläger Hentschläger Stedelijk Museum Stedelijk Museum 19:00 19:00 19:00–22:00 Opening at Stedelijk Florian Hecker, Reza Negarestani, 20:00 Bas van Koolwijk & Gert–Jan Prins, Kurt 20:00 Hentschläger, Espen Sommer Eide, part wild horses mane on both sides 21:00 21:00 Stedelijk Museum / p. 32 21:00-02:00 Sonic Acts at 21:30–03:00 Sonic Acts at OT301 Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ 22:00 22:00 Vessel live feat. Pedro Maia, TCF, Murcof & Rod McLachlan, Otto Piene, M.E.S.H., Karen Gwyer, Minor Science, Jana Winderen, BJ Nilsen & Karl 23:00 Killing Sound, Juha 23:00 Lemieux, Herman Kolgen, Joris Strijbos & Matthijs Munnik, Mario de Vega In collaboration with Viral Radio 00:00 OT301 / p. 37 00:00 Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ / p. 38
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Saturday 28 February 2015 Sunday 1 March 2015 10:00 10:00 INSTALLATIONS INSTALLATIONS 11:00 10:30–12:30 Landscape Transformation 11:00 Michael Welland, Rob Holmes, Jananne Al–Ani / Paradiso, Main Hall / 12:00 p. 21 12:00 SCHEDULETIME 12:00–14:00 The Terrain of Infrasound 10:00-23:00 Raviv Ganchrow, Jonathan Hagstrum, 10:00-23:00 13:00 13:00 Dolmen by Mario Hillel Schwartz / Paradiso, Main Hall / Dolmen by Mario de Vega p. 29 de Vega Muziekgebouw Muziekgebouw 14:00 14:00 aan ’t IJ aan ’t IJ 14:00–15:45 Speculative Geophilosophy Until 12 March Until 12 March Ben Woodard, Benjamin Bratton, 15:00 15:00 Jeff VanderMeer / Paradiso, Main Hall / 10:30-13:30 12:00-15:00 p. 24 La Région 15.00-19.00 Field Trip Long Wave La Région Centrale by Synthesis Zanzibarhaven, Amsterdam Centrale by 16:00 16:00 Michael Snow Westpoort. Travel by bus, leaving from Michael Snow Paradiso, Small Paradiso / p. 53 Paradiso, Small 16:15–17:30 The Nuclear Dimension Hall Hall 17:00 Ele Carpenter, Jamie Kruse & Elizabeth 17:00 Ellsworth / Paradiso, Main Hall / p. 26 10:00-18:00 10:00-18:00 Measure by Kurt Measure by Kurt 18:00 18:00 Hentschläger Hentschläger 16:00–17:00 A Script Stedelijk Museum 16:00–17:00 A Script Stedelijk Museum for Machine Synthesis for Machine Synthesis 19:00 Florian Hecker / 19:00 Florian Hecker / Stedelijk Museum, Stedelijk Museum, Teijin Auditorium / Teijin Auditorium / 20:00 p. 32 20:00 p. 32 20:00–22:00 Sonic Acts at Vondelkerk Greifen by Gabriel Paiuk, performed by 21:00 21:00 Ekkehard Windrich, Tonaliens Vondelkerk / p. 49 22:00 22:00 22:00–04:00 Sonic Acts at Paradiso John Foxx & Steve D'Agostino feat. Karborn, Shxcxchcxsh, Burnt 23:00 Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit, Jacaszek & Kwartludium feat. Pedro 23:00 Maia, Robert Curgenven, Grischa Lichtenberger, Shapednoise with sYn visuals, Shackleton, Kode9, Mumdance & Logos, Visionist 00:00 00:00 In collaboration with Rewire Paradiso / p. 44 01:00 01:00
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