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SOUND//BYTES_
electronic and digital soundworlds
3. March 2007 - 15. April 2007
Opening: 2. March 2007, 19 pm
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Jens Brand, G-Pod, 2006
Artists:
Jens Brand (D), Carl Michael von Hausswolff (S), Yunchul Kim (D), Thomas Köner (D), Christina Kubisch (D), Akitsugu Maebayashi (J), Kaffe Matthews (GB), Micromusic (CH), Annina Rüst (CH)
Akitsugo Maebayashi, Metronome Piece, 2003 - 2007
Sound is everywhere – but we cannot always hear it. Artistic research into new sound materials is drawing attention to previously unheard-of things. New technologies are just as instrumental for experimental artistic work as they are sources of sound.
The forthcoming exhibition uses the term 'soundbytes' in order to deal with artistic research into new acoustic materials as well as electronic acoustic concepts and installations which use sound fragments and digital technologies in acoustically-based design.
The soundbyte stands for the smallest digital, audio-linguistic unit and serves as the foundation for sampling, transformation and re-contextualisation strategies. New dimensions of acoustic space are opened up by digital communications media to provide unusual listening experiences. Acoustic art as a concept is currently receiving fresh stimuli through new mobile communications media being tied into the mix. We encounter them daily: mobile telephones, the internet, wireless LAN and GPS. Unlike the concert situation, the listener experiences through his mobility and interactive relationship with these media, new, overlapping electronic acoustic sound and data spaces created by digital appliances and technologies.
The works of art selected for the present exhibition represent consistent and coherent studies of various acoustic materials, qualities and parameters. What matters here is not so much inventing unheard-of sounds or new musical structures but rather rediscovering available materials, changing them into sound, questioning their assumptions, restructuring them, overlapping them, re-interpreting them and placing them in an unusual context. Installations, performances, presentations, acoustic walks and interventions in the City of Oldenburg offer the visitor manifold possibilities to question echoes, sounds, rhythms, frequencies and electro-magnetic fields and to perceive everyday situations acoustically in a new way.
Events:
Friday, 2. March 2007, 19 pm
Opening and concert
Carl Michael von Hauswolff
"Circulating over Square Waters"
Thursday, 8. March 2007, 19 pm
Presentation and artist talk
Jens Brand
BRAND - We play the world - what do you play?
"G-Turns" - The Oldenburg Branch
Friday, 16. March 2007, 20 pm
Performance
Micromusic (carl, wanga, bacon)
"Lowtech music for hightech people"
Friday, 30. March 2007, 20 pm
Performance in public spaces in Oldenburg
Annina Rüst
"Rock 'n' Scroll"
Friday, 13. April, 20 pm
Concert
Christina Kubisch
"The Oldenburg Walks - Electromagnetic Live Mix"
Open hours:
Thursday - Friday 2pm - 5 pm
Saturday, Sunday 11 am - 5 pm
Tours:
Every Sunday, 3 pm
Group Tours upon request
Admission:
2,50 / 1,50 EUR
Edith Russ Site for Media Art
Katharinenstraße 23
D-26121 Oldenburg
Tel.: +49 (0)4 41/ 235 32 08
Fax: +49 (0)4 41/ 235 21 61
Press Photos
The exhibition is kindly supported by:
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