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From: "66 East: Newsletter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue Apr 20, 2004 3:08:21 PM Europe/Amsterdam To: 66 East - Helge Kühnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Newsletter 66 East: The Sound of Space
Invitation:The Sound of Space
an exhibition at 66 East 29.04-05.06.2004
Opening reception: Thursday 29.04.04 17:00
Closing event: Saturday 05.04.04. The program will consist of a site-specific dance piece:
Resonance
'Vibration is matter in cyclical motion. Vibration is music. All matter is vibrating.
The universe sings.'(Dwight A. Newton)
Concept & performance: Iris van Peppen
Sounddesign: Marc Nukoop
Dramaturgy: Marc Nukoop
Time: 20.00 & 21.30
Opening hours: Fridays14:00-20:00, Saturdays12:00-18:00
*Closed Friday 30.04 for Queen’s-day
‘In Sevilla on a street corner I noticed the multiplicity of simultaneous visual and audible events all going together in one's experience and producing enjoyment.’(John Cage)
Space is often understood as no more than the area constrained between walls, floors and roofs: that which is not solid- a void.
In the last decades, the banality and reductionism of this perception have been challenged mainly by sociologists and geographers. Their work has widened the concept of space, adding social-space to its meanings.
The exhibition is interested in adding another element to the idea of space: sound. The spatial characteristics of sound are self-evident to those professions dealing with it: sound engineers, acoustic engineers, installation advisors etc.
Sound defines space as much as space defines sound- both ideas are intertwined. A small –yet significant- number of studies and projects researching space and sound have been carried out since the 1950’s, Musique Concrete’s work being the best known among them. Its musicians have highlighted some of the characteristics of sound and space by collecting sounds from the environment and manipulating them, and by designing specific environments for sound.
The emergence of new media and electronic music has encouraged art and design schools to open new audio-visual departments, creating the foundations for an increasing interest in the study of the phenomena of sound and space. The results of these developments will be evident at the exhibition.
The Sound of Spacewill present a cross-section of contemporary sound-related work. The participants are artists, sound-engineers, designers and musicians, including Mark Bain, Seamus Cater & Roddy Schrock, Raviv Ganchrow, Flatliners, Tom Parkinson and Research & Development. They present a wide interpretation of the idea of space, relating to social-space, urban-space as well as the interior of the exhibition space. The works exhibited give birth to the idea that sound and space are an integrated system rather than separate disciplines.
66 East: Centre for Urban Culture
Sumatrastraat 66
1094 NHAmsterdam
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.66east.org
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