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19/9/2013

Urban Sounds

House of Electronic Arts, Basel

Guest curator: Julia Gerlach / Director Music, Berlin artist’s programme of DAAD

Participants:
Stini Arn
Gilles Aubry
Sam Auinger and Hannes Strobl
Andres Bosshard
John Cage
Angus Carlyle and Rupert Cox
Maria Chavez
CoH
Robert Cohen and Bruno Spoerri
Stephen Cornford
Peter Cusack
Elektronisches Studio Basel
GingerEnsemble
Institut für Feinmotorik
IRMAT 2.0
Zoë Irvine
Paweł Janicki
katrinem
Johannes Kreidler
Thomas Köner
Trond Maag
Nicolas Maigret
Erik Oña
Mahmoud Refat
Tim Otto Roth
Walter Ruttmann
Marion Saxer
Nicoletta Torcelli
Zimoun

Urban spaces are not but a conglobation of houses, industrial estates, and streets, they are an expression of a heterogeneously cultural, social, economical, and political society, and the stage of (revolutionary) transitions. The sound of European, African or Asian cities is marked by the complex matrix of their social practices. Cities have their characteristic yet hardly prehensible acoustic pattern. Since the beginning of the 20th century they have fascinated artists who initially captured the reality of the city via film or sound recordings, or like the futurists who celebrated the noise of the industrialised city as the symbol for a new society. Today’s sound artists’ interest has differentiated itself outbound from the concretely recorded sound, the focus is always on new aspects of urbanity: on meanings and memories or abstracted structures, or the work is created from the contact with the city and in interactions of the people living there.

During the artistic appropriation artists distance themselves from the urban reality or intensify it. Strategies of transmission, of sonic journalism, of emblematism, the layers of mediatisation form the artistic canon of this contact with reality, which is systematised and emphasised through the terms of urbanisation, combination, mechanisation, and globalisation.

The starting point of URBAN SOUNDS is the trinational space. Artists and institutions from the region enter into a dialogue with their tri- and international colleagues. URBAN SOUNDS presents concerts and talks along the named axis historically, and contemporary and newly initiated works from the trinational and global space in one exhibition.

Press contacts:
Dominique Spirgi +41 61 331 5840 presse@haus-ek.org

Opening Reception on Friday, September 20, 7 p.m.

House of Electronic Arts
Oslostrasse 10 Basel / Münchenstein
Opening hours: Wed-Fri 5-8 p.m. and Sat/Sun: 1-8 p.m.
Guided tours with the curator: Saturday 21.9, 5.10, 19.10, 2.11, 3 p.m.
Regular guided tours: on Sundays at 3 p.m.
Guided tours with After Work Drinks: on Thursdays at 6 p.m

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