Jan 18 + 21
Silent Green:
Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin
Doors open: 16:30
programme starts 17:00
See the Facebook event here
Ben Glas: Proxemic Music (Relational Movements)
Transmediale Studio
“Proxemic Music (Relational Movements)” is an experiential/social/tonal drone performance, in which a portable speaker is shared and passed around to willing (and gloved) participants in the audience. As the speaker is shared from one person to another and our physical bodies become baffles, the total shape of the drone is subtly altered.
About the artist:
Ben Glas (b. 1992) is an experiential composer based in Berlin. Through ephemeral compositions Glas’ work questions preconceived notions between the acts of passive hearing and active listening. In seeking to discover open ended forms of music and pragmatic listening perspectives, Glas’ compositions focus on the realms of subjective perception and cognition, via the use of acoustics, psychoacoustics and space as tools for sonic composition. His work has been exhibited and performed internationally, including the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), Glasgow’s Radiophrenia festival, the Soundwave Biennial (SF) and the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA). He is currently receiving his M.A. in Sonic Studies at the UdK. thankyouforyourunderstanding.com
Ani Samperi: Phase
Cinema Betonhalle
21:40 – 21:55
‘Phase’ is a short audiovisual composition exploring the sonic possibilities of 16mm optical-sound film in relation to tone, visual rhythm, and texture. It features digitized sequences of screentone patterns bound to celluloid film, sonified by a 1950s analog projector. The film shows patterns of dots and lines dancing in contrast with one another, bearing in mind a sense of sonic and visual harmony. One part focuses on rhythm and tone, and the other highlights the texture of sound and image using analog distortion, slower projection speeds, and audio/visual layering. Each pattern produces its own tone as light passes through the image and adjacent sound-track at once. All distortion was produced by the analog projector itself sonified at high volume, no outside sound sources were used, and no digital alterations were made to the sound or image in this film.
About the artist:
Ani Samperi (b. 1990) is an American interdisciplinary artist based in Berlin. Her practice transgresses the boundaries between experimental film, immersive sound installation, and performance art while being mindful of the raw vibration of physicality. Her work has incorporated repurposed, organic, and resonant materials, field recordings, feedback, voice, and light — and various combinations of these — and uses concepts inspired by ecoacoustics and esoteric discourse to address questions of human agency, intimacy, and extreme sensory experience.
anisamperi.com
Samantha Simmons: Memory Transmitter
Transmediale Studio
Memory Transmitters uses the theme of “Contact”. A memory can be a sound that we gather growing up which is very culturally dominated. The question of choice comes in, in this project with what the different artist chose to use as a sample and how we choose in the process of memory. When you listen to a recording, it is a form of excavation. Through memory itself, we are also finding what others are listening to. When we are listening, we are also recording. As humans, we grow up with listening. In sound recordings there are always possibilities of other time. Radio is a medium that allows for sound to travel, and acts as a tool for communication that can transmit a sound to many listeners at once for a unified aural experience, and sound memory experience. This shared experience of listening causes the observer to share sound memories within the radio signals reach, because the signal can only reach a certain distance. Radio, creates sound memories based on location. A sound recording can be a layer of memories. The collaging of memories in this project is about creating a new sound with recorded memories, and then, listening and creating a new memory of sound. Memory Transmitters uses a series of instructions given to the five artists to explore their aural histories according to their sound memory. The sound artist Sukanta Majumdar of The Traveling Archive mentions that, in the process of archaeological digging there is soil and the anticipation of what is underneath the soil, but you do not know what is going to happen. Then, you scratch and scratch until it comes. Sound is like this, an artifact that if you go through it, sound can tell you many details of life.
About the artist:
Samantha is an artist from New York based in Berlin. Coming from a radio and painting background, she was a resident DJ on WFMU freeform radio for 7 years working with sound collage. She now studies sound installation and sonic arts in Berlin. Samantha’s work pulls from different ideas based on sound memories to create overarching themes inspired by distance, locations, weather, glass, heat, cold, airlines, trains, food, fog, animals, water, and shopping malls. Description of work: Title: Memory Transmitters Memory Transmitters uses the theme of “Contact”. A memory can be a sound that we gather growing up which is very culturally dominated. The question of choice comes in, in this project with what the different artist chose to use as a sample and how we choose in the process of memory. When you listen to a recording, it is a form of excavation. Through memory itself, we are also finding what others are listening to. When we are listening, we are also recording. As humans, we grow up with listening. In sound recordings there are always possibilities of other time. Radio is a medium that allows for sound to travel, and acts as a tool for communication that can transmit a sound to many listeners at once for a unified aural experience, and sound memory experience. This shared experience of listening causes the observer to share sound memories within the radio signals reach, because the signal can only reach a certain distance. Radio, creates sound memories based on location. A sound recording can be a layer of memories. The collaging of memories in this project is about creating a new sound with recorded memories, and then, listening and creating a new memory of sound. Memory Transmitters uses a series of instructions given to the five artists to explore their aural histories according to their sound memory. The sound artist Sukanta Majumdar of The Traveling Archive mentions that, in the process of archaeological digging there is soil and the anticipation of what is underneath the soil, but you do not know what is going to happen. Then, you scratch and scratch until it comes. Sound is like this, an artifact that if you go through it, sound can tell you many details of life.
Your Touch Makes The Place, a project by students of Sound Studies and Sonic Arts under the supervision of Sara Lehn.
21 Jan 2022 | Silent Green (outside) | 4-7pm
18 Feb 2022 | Cashmere Radio night
It doesn’t take much to transform a place. A few years and a crematorium is a ‘Kulturquartier’. A few rearrangements and a rooftop is an aural gazebo, a silent lawn turns into a site for listening and coming together. A few compositions and this place becomes a portal to the histories of what surrounds it as well as other dimensions and realities: Suddenly, the the guardians of the dead are evoked, stories about those in the ether, that were never even alive. Connections drawn from tiny mutterings of hidden corners to their resonance across the city. The present is summoned by its links to past and future, a vessel for memory and foreshadowing, an instrument to be activated by our voice and touch.
As part of the exhibition ‘Your Touch Makes The Waves’ by Cashmere Radio, the minimalist octagonal structure ‘monoment’ (Sara Lehn / Eric Windel) on the lawn in front of Silent Green hosts a public listening session of its recent sound art contributions. ‘Your Touch Makes the Place’ (Sound Studies and Sonic Arts, UdK Berlin) puts hands on and presents a transmediale and CTM Vorspiel special.
Diana Fonseca Tremulous Membranes
Kirstine Elisa Kjeldsen Stacked Descent
Udo Koloska Media Ghosts
Genesis Victoria Inverted Vessel
Andreas Sommer Repurpose / Replace
Arni Valur Vökukonan í Wedding
Sibi Abhimanue SMSHAANA at Silent Green
