Sound Exchange Exhibition

Experimental Music Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe

The Sound Exchange exhibition in the Foyer of HAU2 provides further context to the extensive exploration of experimental music cultures in Central and Eastern Europe at CTM 2014. On view throughout the entire festival, the Sound Exchange Exhibiton presents individual artistic positions, regional groupings, and currents in Central and Eastern Europe’s experimental musical cultures from the 1960s to the present. Through various documents, images, and sounds, eight exemplary pioneers and their works are portrayed in regional and historical context, as are their underlying artistic processes and positions.

Central and Eastern Europe has a lively, international network of musicians, cultures and festivals. Since the period of transition started in 1981, however, local traditions and their protagonists – especially the underground movements – have partially been forgotten or escaped wider notice as they reinvented themselves. Curated by Carsten Seiffarth and Carsten Stabenow of Dock e.V., Sound Exchange began its search for the roots and current state of experimental music culture in these regions in 2010, pursuing commonalities and singularities found within these regions and discussing their relationship with the international history of experimental music.

CTM 2014 presents some of the findings and achievements of the extensive Sound Exchange project through a special condensed programme at the festival, which includes two performance evenings, Sound Exchange I and Sound Exchange II, as well as the a daytime programme with screenings, lectures and a discussion round.

The Sound Exchange programme is linked into further dialogue with parallel developments in Russia and the West via a variety of talks and film screenings investigating experimentation in Eastern Europe as well as through the Generation Z : ReNoise exhibition on music and technology pioneers in post-Revolution Russia.

 


The Sound Exchange exhibition and programme at CTM 2014 is presented in collaboration with DOCK e.V.

Facts

Opening: Saturday 25.1.2014 | 19h

Runs: Sunday 26.1. – Sunday 2.2.2014 | HAU2

Hours: daily 19h – till end of concert programme

Sound Exchange I

HAU2, Sat 25.01.2014, 22:00

The First Latvians on Mars, DIISSC Orchestra, Ornament & Verbrechen, Black Manual

Medizin nach Noten

HAU2 WAU, Sat 25.01.2014, 22:00

DJ-Sets by Frank Bretschneider, Olaf Bender, Carsten Nicolai

Spannung. Leistung. Widerstand

Kunstquartier Studio 1, Sun 26.01.2014, 12:00

Film programme and lecture with Claus Löser and Alexander Pehlemann

Sounding the Body Electric

Kunstquartier Studio 1, Sun 26.01.2014, 14:00

Audiovisual Art in the Eastern Bloc in the 1960s and 70s – Lecture by Daniel Muzyczuk

Sound Exchange – Perspectives

Kunstquartier Studio 1, Sun 26.01.2014, 16:00

Panel discussion with Carsten Seiffarth, Susanne Binas-Preisendörfer, Raul Keller, Daniel Muzyczuk, Carsten Stabenow, Moderator: Golo Föllmer

Klipzona

Kunstquartier Studio 1, Sun 26.01.2014, 18:00

Audiovisual music and music videos from Central and Eastern Europe, presented by Natalie Gravenor.

Sound Exchange II

HAU2, Sun 26.01.2014, 21:00

én aka Pál Tóth , Ensemble Mi–65, Bogusław Schaeffer "Synthistory", performed by: Łukasz Szałankiewicz, Łukasz Szałankiewicz

Artist talk: Rodion G. A. & Ion Dumitrescu

Kunstquartier Studio 1, Fri 31.01.2014, 14:00

Moderator: Mark Pilkington. Hosted by The Wire.

Dis Locate

Berghain Kantine, Fri 31.01.2014, 22:00

Ion D, Rodion G.A., Veronica Vasicka, Alexander Robotnick, Fearplay