[rohrpost] CTM 2014 - Sound, Gender, Technology Panel & Tara Rodgers Keynote

[Annie Goh]

Liebe RohrpostlerInnen,

folgende zwei Events finden im Rahmen des CTM Festivals am Samstag den 1. Februar in Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien statt.

 

CTM 2014 “Dis Continuity”
24.01.-02.02.2014 Berlin
http://www.ctm-festival.de/

Sound, Gender, Technology – "Where to" with Cyberfeminism?
Kunstquartier Studio 1 Mariannenplatz 2 10997 Berlin
Tickets 5 € (€8 day ticket)

Saturday 1st Febuary 2014
14:00

Lectures and panel discussion: Sadie Plant (UK/CH), Susanne Kirchmayr (AT), Fender Schrade (DE), Marie Thompson (UK)
Moderation: Annie Goh (UK/DE)

Participants:

Sadie Plant (UK/CH)
“Mixing music, cybernetics, and feminism.”
Some thoughts on the longstanding connections between music and cybernetics.

Susanne Kirchmayr (AT)
"Generative transformations - Deviate from the grid"
Susanne Kirchmayr wil deliver insights into her praxis of sound production and composition. Drawing on her background in linguistics, her recent compositions have worked with human, often female voices to deal with themes of the disintegration of spoken languages, deconstruction and reorganization of meanings and [grammatical] structures. In her presentation, she will also demonstrate her research into the musical potential of concurrent sequences with divergent timings in order to go beyond the scope of ordinary rhythmic synchronizations.
https://femalepressure.bandcamp.com/track/waiting
https://soundcloud.com/indigo

Fender Schrade (DE)
"Performing Between Their Bodies And Your Ears. Stories of a Trans*gendered Live Sound Engineer."
Fender Schrade approaches live sound engineering through an artistic as well as a trans*feminist perspective. The talk will discuss the particularities of the agency of a live sound engineer and the interactions with space, bodies, technology and sound.

Marie Thompson (UK)
“Feminizing noise”
In this talk, Marie will explore the relationship between constructions of femininity and noise, which is understood here as an affective, transformative force, rather than simply as unwanted sound. She will suggest that ‘feminine’ noises are often deemed negative; not because of what they mean, but as a result of the transformations they threaten to induce. Marie will raise questions around essentialism – does talking of a feminine or feminized noise require us to adopt an essentialist position, or can an alternative approach be found?

http://www.ctm-festival.de/festival2014/2014/02/01/programme/event/sound_gender_technology_where_to_with_cyberfeminism/


Saturday 1st February 2014
16:30

Keynote Lecture by Tara Rodgers 
Kunstquartier Studio 1 Mariannenplatz 2 10997 Berlin
Tickets 5 € (€8 day ticket)

Sound Knowledge: Rethinking Histories and Futures of Electronic Music 
(Video Conference)

How do we know what we know about the history of electronic music, and how does this knowledge frame, and sometimes limit, approaches to the creative, technical, and social possibilities of music-making in the present? What knowledge might sound itself give us to live more mindfully and create more expansively? This lecture draws upon feminist theories and archival research to explore these questions in the context of the CTM festival's theme of "discontinuity," which calls for challenging and presenting alternatives to existing histories of electronic music. 

http://www.ctm-festival.de/festival2014/2014/02/01/programme/event/sound_knowledge/


Participant bios:
Sadie Plant has taught in the areas of philosophy and cultural studies at Birmingham University, Warwick University, and Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, and has a longstanding interest in the cultural implications of technological change. She is the author of The Most Radical Gesture, Zeros and Ones, and Writing on Drugs, and has recently translated Nicolai and Wenzel's Labyrinth (Spector Books, 2013). 
Susanne Kirchmayr aka Electric Indigo, DJ, composer, musician, has performed in 37 countries across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In 1998 she founded female:pressure - an international network for female artists in the realms of electronic music and club culture. As a composer and musician she emphasizes the spatial-temporal placement of subtly textured sounds. She received the "outstanding artist award Musik 2012" in the field of electronic music and computer music and the national grant for composition 2013 from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture.
Important works in recent years comprise multichannel compositions "Structuring Contours" - premiere at Klangspuren Festival 2011, "RRHONFEER-RRHEFNEOR" for Moozak Festival 2012, and "Chiffres" - premiere at e_may / Wien Modern 2012, as well as her works for the radical opera "ABSTRIAL" together with composer Pia Palme and choreographer/dancer Paola Bianchi, and "something wicked" for hoergeREDE Festival with author Olga Flor 2013. Currently, Electric Indigo works on her first solo album. http://indigo-inc.at
Marie Thompson is a writer and researcher, based in Nottingham, UK. She is primarily interested in the affective and materialist dimensions of sound and music. She recently completed her PhD thesis, ‘Beyond Unwanted Sound: Noise, Affect and Aesthetic Moralism’, at the International Centre for Music Studies, Newcastle University; and teaches at Lincoln School of Media, University of Lincoln. She is the co-editor of Sound, Music, Affect: Theorizing Sonic Experience (Bloomsbury, 2013) and has published on the relationship between noise and notions of femininity. Marie is also active as a musician/soundmaker, playing solo as Tragic Cabaret and in the band Beauty Pageant.
Fender Schrade is a musician, performance artist, light designer and media engineer. Since 1994, he_she* has worked as a live sound engineer in various international venues. Using different electronic media such as sound, light and video in the fields of performance art and live art, music and sound, his_her* practice is performance-based and situation-led; exploring the boundaries of cultural norms and media technological developments from a trans*gender perspective.
In collaboration with Chris Regn, Fender composed the music for the queerfeminist performance project Vegan Opera (2006) produced by Bildwechsel Hamburg, Germany. Together with Linda Wölfel Fender, he_she co-founded the Berlin-based queer pop duo VOW, who recently released the EP Summer Lightning (2013). In 2013 Fender collaborated as a composer and performer with the performance group Nana And Friends. Fender teaches on sound culture, media technology and trans*gender issues, and has taught internationally including at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. http://www.fenderschrade.com
Annie Goh (moderator) is an artist and researcher working primarily with sound, space, electronic media and generative processes. She is guest curator of the discourse program of CTM 2014. 
Dr. Tara Rodgers (Analog Tara) is a composer, historian and critic of electronic music, based in the Washington, DC, area. She has presented work at the Tate Modern, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, on the Le Tigre Remix album, and in many other forums. She is the author of numerous essays on music, technology, and culture, and of Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound (Duke University Press, 2010), a collection of interviews that won the 2011 Pauline Alderman Book Award from the International Alliance for Women in Music. She currently serves on the editorial boards of Leonardo Music Journal and Women & Music. http://www.pinknoises.com/