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  • 5. – 28.2. 2021 / ÄÄNEEN – Sonic Arts Month @ MUU Helsinki

    An excerpt of a performance video by Emma Fält.

    Ääneen – Sonic Arts Month
    5 – 28 February 2021
    MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre
    Cable Factory
    Tallberginkatu 1 C, 00180 Helsinki, Finland

    In February 2021 the new MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre at Cable Factory is taken over by sonic arts. The month is dedicated to a collaborative sonic arts festival with installations, workshops, concerts, and talks concentrating on sonic arts. The month starts with an online sound and drawing workshop by artist Emma Fält on February 5th and continues with a concert evening curated by Äänen Lumo on February 6th. Throughout the month the sound installation Song for the Unknown by Heta Kaisto and Antti Ikonen can be experienced in the gallery space. Ääneen – Sonic Arts Month is coordinated by Äänen Lumo in collaboration with MUU, and includes several actors in the local field of sonic arts.

    Read more about the online sound and drawing workshop Invenzioni a due voci by artist Emma Fält on 5.2.2021 HERE.

    MUU ry reached out to Äänen Lumo in 2020 to collaborate in organising a Sonic Arts Month. The idea developed to involve the big network of Sonic Arts communities that Äänen Lumo has been working with in the two-years-long project NeuroVerkko financed by Kone Foundation. The programme of the Sonic Arts festival was formed through an open call for co-curation and Äänen Lumo has acted as the convener and coordinator of the month together with MUU ry. The artists and associations participating in the month are Emma Fält (FI), Antti Ikonen (FI), Heta Kaisto (FI), Third Space, J. Koho (FI), Kati Roover (FI), Marloes Van Son (NL/FI), Alejandro Olarte (CO), Freja Bäckman (FI), MYÖS (FI), Free Frag / Steeve Bauras (FR), Samuli Tanner (FI), Minerva Juolahti (FI), Joona Mäkelä (FI), Saara Viika (FI), Timo Tikka (FI), L O (Lora Dimova (BU/FI)), Marko Timlin (DE/FI), and Ana Gutieszca (MX/FI).

    Due to the recent development of the pandemic, the Sonic Arts Month festival has become a platform for experimenting with hybrid forms of local and remote participation to workshops and performances together with Station of the Commons, a local reality that is an ongoing collaborative initiative on digital commoning practices. Station of Commons was initiated in February 2020 and it investigates the possibilities of reappropriating technology within public space.

    Why is it often difficult to imagine alternatives in our culture?
    You can read more at: https://stationofcommons.org/events/expanding-the-frame-re-appropriating-the-video-object

    www.stationofcommons.org

    Given the circumstances in which the festival is taking place, the events will be streamed and accessible remotely, but MUU Helsinki event space can still be accessed in person in small groups of max 5 people.

    INSTRUCTIONS FOR STREAMING 
– In order to watch the stream we recommend downloading the VLC media player (the best free and open source multi-platform media player there is). https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html
– Once installed click: File -> Open network, and copy paste one of the following links: https://streamer.nettitila.fi:8443/video1 or http://streamer.nettitila.fi:8000/video1. Wait for a short moment and you should see the video window open.
– More instructions are available: https://www.vlchelp.com/stream-online-videos-pc-vlc-media-player/
– Or you can go to the Station of Commons website: http://www.stationofcommons.org/peers/aanen-lumo and follow the instructions. 
Enjoy! 
    Why is VLC used for the streaming of ÄÄNEEN – Sonic Arts Month?
Because the quality and reliability of the streaming are highly increased by using VLC. Because we know how the software we are using to stream the content operates, and where the data is sitting, and how it is flowing through the net.

Why not to use Facebook, YouTube or other familiar platforms?
Because we don’t have to. Thanks to open source technology developed by a large community and the expertise of a local community – such as Station of Commons – we want to show that alternatives to proprietary technology, and commercial and centralizing schemes of distributing artistic content are possible and easy.

    The festival is realised with the support of Niilo Helanderin säätiö and the City of Helsinki.

    Programme

    Exhibition:
    7.2.- 28.2. Heta Kaisto & Antti Ikonen: Song for the Unknown – Sound Installation
    Events:
    5.2. Emma Fält: Invenzioni a due voci – Workshop
    6.2. Äänen Lumo – Evening concert
    12.2. Station of Sound – Vol. I – Talk & Evening concert
    13.2. Learning by ear – Talk & Evening concert
    20.2. Sound Room – Evening concert
    27.2. KUULOLLA – Workshop & Evening concert
    28.2. Neuroverkko – Closing Talk

    More detail on the schedule will be announced soon!

    Inquiries

    MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre / muugalleria(at)muu.fi / www.muu.fi
    Äänen Lumo / aanenlumo.info(at)gmail.com / www.aanenlumo.com

  • 09. – 14.09.2020 / Kaikujen Säiliö

    Kaikujen Säiliö is a site-specific immersive sound piece for brass band and live electronics, written for Öljysäiliö 468, a vast, decommissioned oil tank recently transformed into a permanent light installation and event venue in Kruunuvuorenranta, East Helsinki.

    The piece was written by Andrea Mancianti in 2019-2020 and was scheduled to be presented live in August 2020, as one of the events part of last year’s Helsinki Festival. Due to the pandemic the festival has been cancelled, but in order to support the musicians in those hard days, the production had decided to still carry on tests and rehearsals last year. In addition sonic and visual materials from Öljysäiliö 468 collected during those days, became the elements of the internet based audio-video piece remote/displaced by quietSpeaker, presented at Ars Electronica Festival 2020.

    Kaikujen Säiliö is a site-specific immersive sound piece for brass band and live electronics, written for Öljysäiliö 468, a vast, decommissioned oil tank recently transformed into a permanent light installation and event venue in Kruunuvuorenranta, East Helsinki.

    The piece was written by Andrea Mancianti in 2019–2020 and was scheduled to be presented live in August 2020, as one of the events part of last year’s Helsinki Festival. Due to the pandemic the festival has been cancelled, but in order to support the musicians in those hard days, the production had decided to still carry on tests and rehearsals. In addition sonic and visual materials from Öljysäiliö 468 collected during those days, became the elements of the internet based audio-video piece remote/displaced by quietSpeaker, presented at Ars Electronica Festival 2020.

    A documentation of the rehearsals with the musicians can be found here: www.andreamancianti.com/kaikujensailio

    remote/displaced @ ars electronica garden Espoo/Helsinki

    09–14/09/2020

    remote/displaced allows for an immersive exploration of a virtualized physical space: Öljysäiliö 468, a vast, decommissioned and repurposed oil tank in East Helsinki.


    Due to its shape and materials, its acoustics are extremely peculiar, with long reverberation times, shimmering echoes and immersive radiating patterns. In addition, it is an almost magical site for a modern sonic ritual due to its status as a relic of fossil-fuel culture, its position by the shore, and its nature, in-between a closed industrial space not meant for humans and a shell open to the surrounding land- and soundscapes, that constantly filter and reverberate in its open cavity.


    The project takes the shape of a small collection of brief immersive audio-visual visits to this special remote place, exploring ways to listen to the encounter between sound, technology, space and landscape, as it emerges like a precarious ecosystem, where the boundaries between natural and artificial are constantly renegotiated and deformed by technology.


    In between physical and virtual space, the brass instruments, an array of recycled sonic devices, the light, the wind and the sea waves, filtering through the holes on the metallic reverberant surfaces, transform one another.


    The audience can access the various short experiences using a wide array of technologies, from VR goggles, to mobile phones or personal computers, both remotely and in situ during the festival.

    #arselectronica20

    https://ars.electronica.art/keplersgardens/remote-displaced/

  • OPEN CALL for co-curation at MUU gallery / Cable Factory in February 2021

    Dear Artists, Curators, Associations:

    MUU ry wants to dedicate February 2021 to Sonic Arts and has suggested a month long series of events at their new venue at the Cable Factory. They reached out to Äänen lumo to prepare a joint project for that month. From our side we will curate one evening concert event and one hands-on workshop with Emma Fält, but at the same time, we think this could be a perfect opportunity to join forces with the many actors active in the field to organise together a grass-root sonic arts festival! 

    With this open call we would thus like to collaborate to collectively curate a small series of events (workshops, concerts, installations, discussions, meetups etc) during this Sonic Arts month at MUU gallery at Cable Factory in February 2021. MUU ry will contribute offering a renewed space, marketing, technical tools, staff etc, and for costs that would not be covered yet we will be taking care of applying for funding as soon as we have the bigger picture. 

    This would be also a great opportunity to continue with the collaboration around House of the Sonic Arts that started in 2017. As many of you know, in 2017 Äänen Lumo started reaching out to the sonic arts communities of Helsinki, to map out its actors, interests, needs and struggles, and ultimately rethink the role of the association after 20 years of operation. This was achieved through meetings, discussions and questionnaires, as well as a two-year-long series of sonic events organised in collaboration with other actors in the network like you.

    Now, even though the lack of funding did not allow for more concreteness at this stage, we still strongly believe in this idea and we are reaching out to you again to give it a small scale opportunity. The aim of this call is thus to involve sonic communities to co-curate this festival,  experimenting with curatorial practices, circulation of and access to resources and power, with a blurred distinction between producers and audiences. We would like to create for a month a physical context where the sonic communities, in all their diversity, can meet, share and grow in a democratic, self-organised and inclusive way.

    Äänen Lumo is willing to collect ideas for events, workshops, installations, discussions, meetups and so on, taking the responsibility to coordinate the network and prepare a joint funding application to make it happen. 

    Due to the relatively short time frame and the limits of our resources, we will need to encourage ideas that have concrete feasibility, some resources etcetera, but we are happy to try and find ways to present a diverse, sound based program!

    If you have proposals, please, send a one page description (max.), together with a temptative budget explicitly stating what you can offer and what you would need via email to aanenlumo.info@gmail.com.  

    The deadline for the application is the 8th of August 2020.

    For more information don’t hesitate to contact us at aanenlumo.info@gmail.com.