[rohrpost] invitation - hypernatural sounds #2: unheard

[Desiree Förster]

Dear readers,



I hereby invite you for *hypernatural sounds #2: unheard - *an evening of
sound performances and discussions on Monday, February 1st at SomoS
Gallery. The evening is part of this year’s Transmediale Vorspiel.



*hypernatural sounds #2: unheard *is a paradoxical event. It deals with the
theme of making audible the intangible and imperceptible processes, from
organic rivers to data flowing. This is what the hypernatural series
discusses: transformations of natural into art, digital into natural. In
this occasion we will hear two exciting performances of hypernatural music:
*a.melodie* (http://www.a-melodie.com/) and *Marco Donnarumma* (
http://marcodonnarumma.com/), performing different transformations of
otherwise unheard phenomena into sounds. French artist a.melodie transforms
plants’ electrical response into sounds, while Italian musician and
researcher Marco uses self-made instruments to amplify the sounds of his
own muscles.



After the performances we will open the floor for a panel discussion
moderated by Desiree Förster with: Mélodie, Marco and the Paloma López &
Leslie García from the *Interspecifics* Collective (
http://www.interspecifics.cc). Paloma and Leslie research transduction
tools to feed the electric properties of bacteria into modular
synthesizers.



The hypernatural series, curated by Pedro Lopes & Desiree Förster, aims at
intersecting musicians and theorists into a framework of discussion and
sharing with the audience, which includes current scientific and
philosophic studies of non-human subjectivities, music & media theory, etc.



Looking forward to see you there.



All best

Desiree



Good to know:

19h        doors open

20h        a.melodie

20h30   Marco Donnarumma

21h        panel discussion joined by Interspecifics Collective and Desiree
Förster



Address

SomoS Gallery, Kottbusser Damm 95, 10967 Berlin



// Artist Bios

Marco Donnarumma is a performance artist, sound artist, musician and
writer. He uses human bodies and machines as materials. Working with
biophysical media, that is, biomedical technologies, sound devices,
computer software, sensor and transducers, he creates artworks where human
bodies and machines extend, transform or disrupt each other. He has
received a number of awards, most notably the first prize in the Guthman
New Musical Instrument Competition (Georgia Tech, US) for the system Marco
will use at Hypernatural Sounds; the Cynetart Prize for Computer Based Art
and the Transitio New Media Art Award, among others.



a.melodie is the electronic music project of Mélodie Fenez. The project
centers on the awareness of plant life and their communication to the
outside world. a.melodie consists of self-made synthesizers that are then
hooked up to an array of different plants. The plants, who have their own
unique timber shape the sound of each oscillator. Because of physiological
reactions, mainly due to their defensive system, the plants modulate the
frequency they produce, creating an alive and ever morphing sound. On
stage, a.melodie composes with the sounds produced and modulated live by
the plants. Mélodie has performed at venues such as Café OTO (UK) and Casa
da Música (PT).



interspecifics is a project by Paloma López & Leslie García in which a a
set of custom-built modular synthesizers creates a real-time sonification
from the electric properties found in some bacteria. Conceptualized as a
DIY interspecies system, the interface amplifies the microvoltage produced
by these microorganisms transducing their oscillatory features into raw
electronic signals tuning the internal clock of the whole system and
producing an unexpected array of sound patterns. The object explores the
relationship between waveforms, matter, and the physical form of
frequencies. The project has been developed at Cimatics in Brussells,
Todays Art in The Hague and Insomnia in Tromsø; and built while traveling
using different fabrication laboratories across Europe.



HYPERNATURAL SERIES: THE PHILOSOPHY OF SOUNDS is a series curated by Pedro
Lopes and Desiree Förster. This series brings together musicians and
theorists for sharing with the audience the philosophy behind sound art and
music.



Event page: http://www.somos-arts.org/hypernatural-sounds2-unheard/

Event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1670399423221924/

Hypernatural Sounds  on facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/Hypernatural-Sounds-218213905178626/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel