City Sonics
dal 27/6/2003 al 18/8/2003
Segnalato da
27/6/2003
City Sonics
Different places, Mons
In the context of the artistic Summer event Ete' + Expos (a contemporary plastic arts event started in some public locations throughtout the City of Mons launched in the Summer 2002), City Sonics draws a sound itinerary in the urban & historical space of Mons (Cultural capital of the French Community of Belgium).
In the context of the artistic Summer event Ete' + Expos (a contemporary plastic arts event started in some public locations throughtout the City of Mons launched in the Summer 2002), City Sonics draws a sound itinerary in the urban & historical space of Mons (Cultural capital of the French Community of Belgium).
Around 20 installations mixing sounds, words, music in a personal, funny, prospective, intriguing, poetic,?way will take place in the very center of the City of the Mons. With City Sonics the City of Mons and its partners hope to gather a large audience.
'Sound Art' is a relatively recent tendency in the arts, a hybrid genre at the cross point of plastic arts and music. For some years now, important museums and festivals have organized sound art events such as Sonic Process in 2002 in MACBA (Barcelona) and then Pompidou Centre (Paris), WAV with sound installations along the canals of the historical City of Brugge for the Brugge 2002 manifestation, or the seminal Sonic Boom curated by David Toop at the Hayward Gallery (London) during the Summer 2000). But so far very few sound installations have been gathered in outdoor public locations. City Sonics propose to fill this gap and to open various passages, gardens, courtyards, churches, rooms,?in the center of the charming, historical and beautiful city, Mons.
Until now, such a public sound event as City Sonics has not been organized in Belgium.
Several entrances are proposed for this artistic sound itinerary starting from the train station to the Mundaneum via the Grand Place and the Garden of the Mayor, the 15th century gothic Church 'Collegiale Sainte-Waudru' also involving cultural locations such as the Carre' des Arts (where the Cultural Centre Le Manege.Mons is now located) or La Machine a' Eau for various performances.
Belgian, European and North-American artists are invited to install during this Summer 2003 their site specific creations and soundscapes in those central venues with more than twenty installations mixing sounds, words, musics in an inventive, intriguing, poetic and artistic way.
A series of performances involving some of the artists participating in City Sonics and special guests will be freely proposed to the public for the opening on June 28 & during the event, inviting the visitors to discover the sonic itinerary.
A CD compilation with excerpts of the sounds & music produced for City Sonics by the involved artists will be released.
At Le Mundaneum, a free sonic webspace (selections of musical, artistic and audio creative web sites) is open for the visitors.
City Sonics is curated by Philippe Franck (artistic director of Transcultures and director of Festival Netd@ys Wallonie-Bruxelles for the European Commission)
4 approaches axes combining the prospective, poetic, entertaining and contemporary dimensions:
The music-sound: electronic waves, sonic fluxes,? 'contemporary' music in the space, building a sound space and a different sort of listening.
The voice-sound: words, daily stories captured and retreated by the artists in a poetic, anthropological or funny way.
The image-sound: plastic or visual artists coming to the sculpture of sounds
The machine-sound: an original, 'dada', surrealist instrumentarium... artists being both inventors, players & producers of sounds and sound objects, in either a low tech way or using multimedia/interactive devices.
Musical performances:
Opening > Saturday 28 June, musical performances from 6 p.m. : Eric Van Osselaer with Benjamin Bouffioulx (dada instruments) versus Lester Lewitt (Elf Cut, urban samples), 'electro-nomad ' DJs, DJ Olive live set in the court of the City Hall, Church bells concert by Charlemagne Palestine at the Belfry, and other surprises?
Festival at Le Carre' > Tuesday 15th of July : a 'mecanoid' concert and live video screenings by Pierre Bastien, for the closing event at Festival au Carre', in partnership with le Manège.Mons. (+ ' Doppelganger ' a multimedia theatre performance by Cie Le Cri and sonic installation/performance by Didier Mahieu)
Saturday 19 June - 8 pm > Pop Poetry Performance with Gerard Malanga (New York pop poet, filmmaker, photographer, performer and main assistant of Andy Warhol in the golden Factory), reading on a soundtrack by 48 Cameras (remix of Angus MacLise Sub Rosa archives) + Guy-Marc Hinant (Sub Rosa) avant-garde DJ set and pop party
Saturday 26 June - 8 pm > Live electronic soundscapes by Leo Kupper at Collegiale Sainte-Waudru + Françoise Van Hecke (soprano singer) & Jean-Claude Frison (reading)
every Saturday - from 4 to 8 p.m. > Electro-Nomads > mobile DJs mixing in various venues of downtown Mons, surprise groove!!
A sonic journey from Leopold Square (in front of the train station) to Mundaneum (76, rue de Nimy) with : Emilio Lopez-Menchero's painting (Spain) in front of the train station (1), Leo Kupper (Belgium) electro-vocal soundscapes at Collegiale Sainte-Waudru (2) Eric Van Osselaer's giant bellows at the Youth Hostel (B) (3) Guy- Marc Hinant's 'Panoptical Plans' at the Communal Printing - Garden of the Mayor (4), Alex Geddie's interactive 'METAR' in the Garden of the Mayor (Ca) (5), Eric Van Osselaer's interactive sound sculpture in the Garden of the Mayor (6), Dominique Leroy (France) 'broadcast unit' in the Garden of the Mayor (7), DJ Olive (USA) 's 'Balk Talk' in entrance passage of the Garden of the Mayor (8), Arno Fabre (F) radio and water drops device in the entrance of the tower of the City Hall (9), Bobvan (B) 's wedding music in the Salle des Sacquiaux/entrance of the City Hall (10), Todor Todorof's sensors (B) around the monkey statue/Grand Place (13), Emilio Lopez-Menchero's local chant recordings in the Grand-Rue (14), Charlemagne Palestine (USA) 'Sonorious Lariat' at La Médiathèque Gallery/Grand Place (15), DJ Olive's 'Perpetual Soundcheck' at La Médiathèque (16) Todor Todorof's sonic corpses in the entrance of the Fine Arts Museaum/rue Neuve (17), Pierre Bastien's paper music (F) at Gallery L'Art en mire/Fine Arts Museum (18), Roberto Paci Dalo's EMN40 (I) in the Fine Arts Museaum (19) DJ Olive's birds in the court of the Jean Lescarts Folk Museum (20), Roald Baudoux in the garden behind the Fine Arts Museaum (21), Alain Fleischer (F) and Jean-Paul Dessy (B) at the Mundaneum, 76 rue de Nimy (22), Emmanuel Giraud (F) at the Mundaneum (1st floor) (23)
Everyday from 12 a.m to 6 p.m. (closed on Monday) > Free entrance
City Sonics (in the framework of the summer event Ete +, 2003) is an initiative of :
L'Echevinat de la Culture et du Tourisme de la Ville de Mons, with the help of the Ministry of the French Community of Belgium, and in partnership with Musiques Nouvelles, la Médiathèque, Studio des arts contemporains Le Fresnoy and Transcultures.
Info: + 32-(0)65/40.53.02 (cultural department of the City of Mons)