Jan Thoben: Vertigo Machines

2 channel video installation, 2013 (7’50” loop)

Kathrin Scheidt: Alternative Book Cover Designs for the SoundS Reader 2022

5:00PM

Gilles Aubry: Salam Godzilla

Video, 2019 (40’35″)

Salam Godzilla is an experimental video essay on the earthquake that destroyed the city of Agadir in 1960. Shot in collaboration with the singer Ali Faiq, the film engages with past and present echoes of the disaster and its aftermath, drawing on archive material and performative interventions. The work connects to Gilles Aubry's critical re-examination of the unsound in his contribution to the Sound Studies and Sonic Art reader.

6:00 PM

Volker Straebel: Tidying up Berlin

2 channel digital audio, 2011 (15’)

Daisuke Ishida: A Wave, The SINE WAVE ORCHEST­RA

Artist talk

An Installation premiered in 2017, altered versions exhibited at Pochen Biennale, Chemnitz, Germany in 2022 and WRO Biennale, Wrocław, Poland in 2023. Indistinct images are projected onto a screen, accompanied by inarticulate sounds reverberating across the entire exhibition space. All of these images and sounds are created by disassembling and recomposing algorithmically in real- time from vast amount of video materials that are picked up from the internet continuously over the period of the exhibition. The fragmented videos that provide the visual and acoustic source material are recomposed/reordered based on their respective data of luminance and sound (magnitude/level) to create a sine wave, which means that the original videos are deprived of their meaning, and reduced to abstract elements of light and sound for the construction of a sine wave.

The Sound Studies and Sonic Arts Reader

An introduction by Julia H. Schröder and Volker Straebel

Mutually Informed: Confronting Theory and Praxis in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts Education

A panel discussion with Sabine Sanio, Volker Straebel, Martin Supper, and Jan Thoben, moderated by Julia H. Schröder

The book can also be ordered online here.

Sound experiments with vacuum cleaners and car audio systems, a huge, microphoned pile of sand, reflections on a machine that reproduces sound memories: “State of SoundS” gives an insight into the work of the UdK master’s program “Sound Studies and Sonic Arts” under the direction of Prof. Daisuke Ishida.

In eleven installations, performances and interventions, the foyer of the Akademie der Künste on Hanseatenweg becomes a place of listening. The students are interested in the interdisciplinary approach to the world of sound, the intertwining of theoretical study and creative work: thinking with the ears, making culture audible.

The series “sample&hold” is a cooperation of the Studio for Electroacoustic Music of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, the Studio for Electroacoustic Music of the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music Berlin (STEAM) and the UNI.K | Studio for Sound Art and Sound Research as well as the Master’s program Sound Studies and Sonic Arts of the Universität der Künste Berlin.