<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">reminder: Invitation to our first session of: </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://sonictheory.com/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">oscillation series</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">sonic theories and practices. </font></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"></font></span></span><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">date: 1st of August 2010, Sun, 6pm</font></b></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><a href="http://sonictheory.com/">sonictheory.com/</a></font></div><div><p><strong><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">title</font></strong><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">: What is sonic theory?<br></font>
<strong><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">with</font></strong><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">: Jan Thoben, Shintaro Miyazaki, <b>Axel Volmar</b> (keynote).<br></font>
<strong><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">artistic</font></strong><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </font><strong><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">presentation</font></strong><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">: Stephane Leonard.<br></font>
<strong><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">place</font></strong><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">: </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=Sch%C3%B6nhauser+Allee+167,+10435+Berlin,+Deutschland&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=52.020054,124.716797&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Sch%C3%B6nhauser+Allee+167,+Berlin+10435+Berlin,+Deutschland&z=16" target="_blank">General Public, Schönhauser Allee 167c, Berlin</a></font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">The first meeting will be about the intentions of the whole series. After an introduction by the organizers, </font><a href="http://www.multimediale-systeme.de/mitarbeiter_axel_volmar_team10.html" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Axel Volmar</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">
(University of Siegen), media theorist and researcher in the realm of
sonic knowledge in the history of the 20th century and organizier of the
symposium “</font><a href="http://auditive-medienkulturen.de/" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Auditive Medienkulturen</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">”
(Auditive Media Cultures) will kick off the series with some general
remarks, thoughts and concepts of sonic theories and practices. Then
artist </font><a href="http://stephaneleonard.net" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Stephane Leonard</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> will present his work “Panorama”.</font></p><p><strong><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Abstract Axel Volmar: Ideology and Sounddesign</font></strong><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br>
Why do we need a Sonic Theory and what is it good for? To open the
discussion on the key questions of the oscillation series talks, Axel
Volmar (Siegen/Bern/Berlin) will investigate some of the major
characteristics of the modern soundscape. By presenting various audio
and video examples, the talk will argue that the analysis of sounddesign
practices should be central to a Sonic Theory, because designed sounds
carry subtle “messages” of specific ideological impact that influence
the meaning of our sonic world. The talk will therefore trace
conjunctions of ideology and sounddesign and will also discuss the role
of digital audio art in this context.</font></p><p><small><strong><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Profile of Axel Volmar</span></font></strong><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br>
Axel Volmar studied cultural sciences and media theory. His main focus
of research is auditive culture and audiomedia. He has published various
articles and essays investigating the temporality of media, the
relation between sound and knowledge and the history of acoustics.
Currently he is research associate at Uni Siegen where he has organised a
symposium on auditive media culture which was dedicated to methods of
interdisciplinary sound studies.<br>
Axel is the editor of the book </span></font><a href="http://multimediale-systeme.de/arbeiten/index.php?intParentNr=3&intTeamNr=10" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">“Zeitkritische Medien”</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> published in 2009.</span></font></small></p><p><strong><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Description of artistic project “Panorama” by Stephane Leonard:</font></strong><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br>
- sound installation for 7 speakers, computer, sound card and amplifier (2007)<br>
- composition for the Endliche Automaten – Laptop Orchestra Berlin (2010)</font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">The 7 channel sound installation ‘Panorama’ is one piece spread out
over 7 speakers. It has a length of 11:30 minutes and is played in a
continues loop. The composition is based on a series of drawings about
outer-space and the sound material was mostly made of recordings from
outer-space. After some research on the internet I found a lot of
recordings of cosmic storms, radio wave emissions from saturn, earth
whistlers, electromagnetic fields, sky cyclones, etc. made by
satellites. The NASA and other space organisations proved to be great
sources for unique sound material.
I later deconstructed and
manipulated those sounds with the help of my self-coded software to
integrate them into the composition.
The piece opens the view upwards.
Unknown sounds draw the listener inexorably deeper into the composition.
The swelling of noise and the amount of overlapping tones make the
listener come closer to the individual speakers to discover the
individual elements within the wall of sound. The focus of the piece
changes, depending on the position of the listener.
It is almost like a
constant search for the soloists inside a huge mass of sound – a search
for the uniqueness in the infinite variety of the cosmos.</font></p><p><small><strong><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Profile of Stephane Leonard</span></font></strong><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br>
Stephane Leonard is a visual artist and musican. He has studied drawing
under Professor Paco Knöller, a former student of the Joseph Beuys
class. Leonard is a founding member of the naivsuper artist collective
that publishes and promotes modern composers, adventurous music, art and
books and the naivsuper film collective which makes films, music
videos, documentaries and video installations.
He is also a member of
various music ensembles. His work has been shown in exhibitions in
Berlin, New York, Hamburg, Bremen, Groningen, Neubrandenburg, Oslo,
Bergen, Vienna, Zürich, Massachusetts, Bangkok and the Kirgisien
National Museum for Fine Arts.</span></font></small></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><b>Talks will be in english language</b></span></font></p></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></body></html>