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31/5/2006

Sonambiente Berlin 2006

5 Central Venues and Many Other Locales, Berlin

sonambiente berlin 2006 is summer in Berlin set to music for the eyes and ears. Installations, objects, performances, happenings - visual art, sound art, video, new media, radio art, film: from June 1st to July 16th, for the second time since 1996, over 40 internationally known artists and some 20 up-and-coming art school talents make the metropolis reverberate with sound.

At five central venues and many other exciting locales, sonambiente berlin 2006 generates an extensive network of events throughout the centre of Berlin.

With a wide-ranging programme, the festival for hearing and seeing kicks off its opening weekend, June 1st to 5th, parallel to the football world cup. This major sporting event plays a direct role in several of the artists' works. From June 9th to July 7th, the sonambiente_public viewing sound art lounge at the Haus der Berliner Festpiele will be the place to watch live broadcasts of the football matches amidst the arts.
sonambiente berlin 2006 is a production of the Akademie der Kunste and the Berliner Festspiele. Festival direction/artistic directors: Matthias Osterwold and Georg Weckwerth.

sonambiente berlin 2006
Sound art — encompassing a range of interdisciplinary and multimedia working methods that artists use — is a widespread phenomenon that has long been integrated into the international art scene.
In the context of Berlin's thriving cultural landscape, the maturing and steadily growing significance of contemporary sound art - with more and more use of and attention to sound in the visual arts - is now expressed in a Festival of its own.

festival
The six-week-long festival sonambiente berlin 2006 will present a representative cross-section of sound art, spanning all individual art forms, to a broad audience. Significant figures in the international sound art scene, along with new young talents, will be represented with their works at the Festival.

hearing
sonambiente sees itself as a showcase - a broad, wide-open platform for contemporary international sound art.
For the exhibition section of the Festival, the focus is on spatial interventions, installation-like or with a performative character, happening at unique locations in the public urban arena: sonambiente_exhibition. Performances, concerts and actions will frame the presentations in the exhibition andcomplement aspects of their content: sonambiente_live.

seeing
Just as the city of Berlin has continued to rapidly transform itself since the fall of the Berlin Wall, changing its appearance on a daily basis, the pace of artistic production is likewise accelerated. With artistic positions at found sites in public spaces, the Festival will also take a critical inventory of the city's development. The spectrum of sound art statements is extremely complex in this regard - sonambiente berlin 2006 will present current and innovative projects, generating an intensive discourse on the living and thinking environments of the moment.

sound
Artists from the most diverse backgrounds are active in the field of sound art, consisting as it does of a wealth of different forms where music, visual arts, theatre, dance, film, video and new media converge.
Their works range from sound sculptures, sound installations, environments, performances, actions, sound theatre, and sound poetry all the way to work in the media arts of radio, film, video and computer networks.
In their synthesis of sound, movement, time, space and form, works of sound art appeal directly and instantaneously to the human perceptual apparatus. Sound art presupposes the unity of perception. It is art to hear as well as to see, often to touch, and sometimes even to smell and taste.

art
Berlin is considered an important, if not the most important, centre of international sound art. For a large number of national and international sound artists — many of whom have moved into the city in recent years —Berlin is at once a base, an inspiration and a source of artistic friction. Numerous presenters offer exhibition and performance possibilities for sound art works. And a lively scene always attracts an audience: in Berlin this audience is especially open and knowledgeable about sound art.

locations
In sonambiente berlin 2006, the varied architectures of 'found locations' ??? dilapidated properties and brand-new tenantless buildings, high-tech atriums and disused industrial facilities ??? are venues for the newest and latest sound art works, several of which have been especially made for or adapted to the sites. This encounter with the given situations, the relationship between architecture, place and sound in a real context, is a central theme of the festival for hearing and seeing.

fifa world cup
sonambiente berlin 2006 will take place at the same time as the Football World Cup in Germany, this year's ultimate major event, which will attract many visitors to Berlin. The organisers hope and anticipate that people from all around the world will have direct and unmediated encounters with projects by international artists. Some of the sound art pieces relate to this major sporting event.

sonambiente 1996
sonambiente took place once before: the 1996 festival was part of the Academy of Arts' tricentennial celebration and presented the most comprehensive survey to date of contemporary international sound art. During the four weeks of that festival, some 50,000 visitors experienced sound art projects by more than 100 participating artists at more than 20 venues in Berlin's new Mitte (centre) district.

ARTISTS LIST
[dy'na:mo], Wien, A
Alfred Behrens, Berlin, D
Maria Blondeel, Gent, B
Jens Brand, Koln, D
Candice Breitz, Berlin, ZA
Janet Cardiff/George Bures Miller, Berlin, CDN
Nicolas Collins, Chicago, USA
Paul DeMarinis, San Francisco, USA
Joanna Dudley, Berlin, AUS
Ulrich Eller, Norderheistedt, D
David First, New York, USA
Terry Fox, Koln, USA
Seppo Grundler, Graz, A
Gut & Rist aka Gutarist, Berlin/ Zurich, D/CH
Robert Jacobsen, Nettlingen, D
Rolf Julius, Berlin, D
Katja Kolle, Viersen, D
Christina Kubisch, Berlin, D
Hans Peter Kuhn, Berlin, D
Tilman Kuntzel, Berlin, D
Kalle Laar, Munchen, D
Bernhard Leitner, Wien, A
Aernout Mik, Amsterdam, NL
Robin Minard, Weimar, CDN
Helen Mirra, Chicago, USA
Carsten Nicolai, Berlin, D
Andreas Oldorp, Hamburg, D
Finnbogi Pe'tursson, Reykjavik, IS
Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner, London, GB
Julian Rosefeldt, Berlin, D
Klara Schilliger/Valerian Maly, Bern, CH
Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag, Oldenburg/Berlin, D
Atau Tanaka, Paris, J
Ana Torfs, Brussel, B
Guy van Belle, Brussel/Berlin, B
Edwin van der Heide, Utrecht, NL
Maurice van Tellingen, Amsterdam, NL
Carl Michael von Hausswolff & freq_out orchestra, Stockholm, S
Kris Vleeschouwer, Brussel, B
Heinz Weber, Berlin, D
Miki Yui, Dusseldorf, J
Ricardo Miranda Zuniga, Ridgewood, NY, NIC/USA

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