SoundsAbout

15/07/2022

Save the date for next weekend!

Concerts+installations+video and sound art at lietzenburger strasse 45 ✨
In one exciting summer weekend from the 22 until 24 July, UdK’s buildings and studios will be open to the public, showcasing works from students from participating departments. This year, our building at Lietzenburgerstr. 45 will be open once again!

Come on down and experience an exhibition of different Installations and Performances by students of MA Sound Studies and Sonic Arts and Bühnenbild.

Opening Hours:
Saturday 23.07 11-23hr [doors close 22hr, 15h-22hr Bar & DJs in the backyard]
Sunday 24.07 10-21hr [doors close 20h]

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CONCERTS / PERFORMANCES Schedule

— FRIDAY 22.07
12 - 17h @ Probensaal, Bundesallee -- (only with Preview ticket)

— SATURDAY 23.07
16:45 Samantha Simmons
17:25 Hayden Dean
18:15 Nicolás Teubal
18:45 a. modica
19:30 Eldar Tagi
20:10 Angelo Harmsworth
20:45 Árni Valur
21:30 Forster (Davide Luciani / Mitchell Keaney)

— SUNDAY 24.07
17:30 Udo Koloska
18:15 Varoujan
19:00 MAF w/ Gugulethu ‘Dumama’ Duma
19:50 Victor Yrigoyen

/ VIDEO INSTALLATIONS by
Zach Hart,
Heather Fae Calla,
Selim El Sadek,
Hayden Dean,
Barry Despenza,
Sean Regan,
Aodhagán O'Flaherty

/ SOUND INSTALLATIONS BY
Chung Tat Sham,
Hyewon Suk,
Mitchell Keaney,
Haesoo Jung,
Merey Senocak,
Ani Samperi,
Germaine Png,
Odd Sonorous,
Sel,
Lila-Zoé Krauß,
Árni Valur

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Register for preview tickets (only needed for Friday 22.07) here: https://rundgang-previews.de/anmeldung/ekindex.php?eid=28

14/03/2022

Tonight at 8pm if you can't join us at the gallery, you can still catch Mariana Carvalho's talk about her artistic process live on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/udkberlin_sounds

More info here: https://about.sounds.berlin/mariana-carvalho-process-sharing-of-me-alimento-de-vozes/

See you there!

13/03/2022

TODAY, Monday 14th
The talk will be live streamed from the gallery HERE >> https://www.twitch.tv/udkberlin_sounds

13/03/2022

TODAY
Workshop, talk of Mariana Carvalho and closing of the exhibition of ONDA, by Diana Fonseca and Victor Yrigoyen

12/03/2022

MARIANA CARVALHO: PROCESS SHARING OF ME ALIMENTO DE VOZES – SoundsAbout

NEW DATES: This Monday and Thursday!
| Mariana Carvalho: Process sharing of me alimento de vozes |
14 and 17 Feb

Talk (live streamed):
14 Mar, 20:00-21:00

Workshop:
14 Mar, 17:30 – 19:30 - Session 1
at SoundsAbout gallery
17 Mar, 18:00 – 20:00 - Session 2
at Lietzenburger Strasse, 45, room 314
*same session offered twice
IT IS STILL POSSIBLE TO REGISTER FOR THE WORKSHOP

see link below for details
https://about.sounds.berlin/mariana-carvalho-process-sharing-of-me-alimento-de-vozes/

March 14 +17 March 14th (Soundsabout, Potsdamer Str. 161)17.30 – 19.30 – workshop 20.00 – 21.00 talk March 17th (UdK, Lietzenburger Str. 45, room 314)18.00 – 20.00 – workshop Participants can register for the workshop by sending an email with the day and time of choice to [email protected]...

10/03/2022

| FRONTRUNNER : Visions of Sonic Intimacy |
by Victor Yrigoyen


FRiDAY MAR 11 6PM

Soundtrack for a Book for a Soundtrack... for a Book

FRONTRUNNER is an art-object book compiling photographs, drawings and writings from the author. It is accompanied by a soundtrack made exclusively as a sonic counterpart for the graphic material. Sometimes the words and images lead and the sound follows, sometimes the other way around.

10/03/2022

| FRONT RUNNER |

10/03/2022

Covid is wrecking havoc on our program this week! Tonight’s performance night with Hayden Dean and Diana Fonseca is being postponed but keep an eye on our communication as new dates will be announced soon. Chins up and see you this Friday for the opening of ONDA and Victor Yrigoyen’s “Frontrunner”

09/03/2022

| PERFORMANCE NIGHT |

by DIANA FONSECA + HAYDEN DEAN

MAR 10, 7PM - 9:30PM
UdK SoundS, Lietzenburger Str 45, 10789 Berlin, ROOM 103

**UPDATE: due to one of our performers needing to quarantine, we have to postpone this performance night until further notice. Details on the new date TBA soon - stay safe out there kids! ***

**UPDATE: This event has sadly had to be postponed due to COVID. Keep and eye out for new dates TBA soon **

Diana Fonseca
Domestic Affairs - a performance inspired by pleasant sonic mistakes, feed by the ordinary actions in simple life. A commitment with indiscriminate re-signification of household commodities. The improvisation of a soundtrack that lies in every common gadget.

Hayden Dean
Perception is continuous, simultaneous and layered. In naming, we are removed from that which can be experienced in even the briefest moment, where words enter their own sphere of meaning and influence perception. The World Doesn’t Want To Be Caught plays with the weave of sensed experience and language; a viewpoint from just after the moment, another from even further outside.

07/03/2022

TALK + WORKSHOP POSTPONED
We are sorry to announce that 'Me Alimento De Voces' by Mariana Carvalho has been postponed to another date. New dates will be announced very soon.

07/03/2022

TALK AND WORKSHOP POSTPONED
Unfortunately, the process sharing of Mariana Carvalho that were happening tomorrow and on Wednesday had to be postponed. We will announce soon the new dates!

06/03/2022

MARIANA CARVALHO: PROCESS SHARING OF ME ALIMENTO DE VOZES – SoundsAbout

Next Tuesday and Wednesday, Mariana Carvalho is offering a workshop, open for registrations!

"For the workshop, she will conduct a somatic practice around voice and listening, working on sensorial aspects, inner listening and mouthlistening, or voice-eating. She will share with the participants some of the practices she has been doing with herself, based on eutony, Deep Listening practices and personal experimentation. The group will also reflect upon different ways of registering and sharing embodied experience, through practices of writing, journaling, drawing and conversation."

More info and instructions for registering, please access the link:
https://about.sounds.berlin/mariana-carvalho-process-sharing-of-me-alimento-de-vozes/

On Tuesday at 20.00, she will also give a talk about the project.

8 – 9 March Talk: March 8th, 20:00-21:00 Workshop: Session 1: March 8th, 17:30 – 19:30 Session 2: March 9th, 18:00 – 20:00 Due to limited capacity of participants, the same workshop will be offered twice. Participants can register for the workshop by sending an email with the day and time of ...

05/03/2022

| The World Doesn't Want To Be Caught |
by Hayden Dean


OPENING HOURS :
SAT 5th & SUN 6th 14:00-19:00

05/03/2022

| The World Doesn't Want To Be Caught |
by Hayden Dean


OPENING HOURS :
SAT 5th & SUN 6th 14:00-19:00

02/03/2022

| Process Sharing of Me Alimento de Voces |
by Mariana Carvalho
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TALK
March 8th 20:00-21:00

WORKSHOP
Session 1: March 8th 17:30 – 19:30 
Session 2: March 9th 18:00 – 20:00

REGISTER TO TAKE PART
**Due to limited capacity of participants, the same workshop will be offered twice. Participants can register for the workshop by sending an email with the day and time of choice to [email protected].

**Vaccination certificate and negative test are required (including those with booster vaccinations).

Mariana Carvalho will share the process of “me alimento de vozes” [I feed myself from voices], an artistic project that she has been immersed in since 2019. She is currently working on it as part of her Project Phase, through the production of a solo album and an artistic research publication. Me alimento de vozes is a series of performative works that explores sonorous relations inside the body during and around the act of eating voices. To eat, she shares an inner listening perspective while asking people to explicitly sing inside her mouth or placing speakers with previously collected voices inside of it. It is a process of reception, internalization, filtering and transformation – a ritual of embodiment. 

For SoundsAbout, she will give a talk, telling about the ongoing investigation, the conceptual framework and the current artistic research.

For the workshop, she will conduct a somatic practice around voice and listening, working on sensorial aspects, inner listening and mouthlistening, or voice-eating. She will share with the participants some of the practices she has been doing with herself, based on eutony, Deep Listening practices and personal experimentation.

01/03/2022

| The World Doesn't Want To Be Caught |
by Hayden Dean Prosser


VERNISSAGE :
FRI 4th 18:00-22:00

OPENING TIMES :
SAT 5th & SUN 6th 14:00-19:00

The World Doesn’t Want To Be Caught attempts to convey the experience of a short event; the momentary and fleeting thoughts with more slow and carefully worded accounts. A viewpoint from just after the moment; another from even further outside.

Hayden is a UK born artist and composer based in Berlin and Helsinki whose practice revolves around installation and performative sonic art. Their work often centres on inner experience, language and reduction of hierarchies within sound and other materials.

01/03/2022

| The World Doesn't Want To Be Caught |
by Hayden Dean Prosser


VERNISSAGE :
FRI 4th 18:00-22:00

SAT 5th & SUN 6th 14:00-19:00

“Perception is simultaneous and layered, and to single out any aspect of it for naming is to turn
your attention away from myriad other things, those braiding elements of the sensorium — that
continuous, complex response to things perpetually delivered by the senses, the encompassing
sphere that is such a large part of our subjectivity.”
- Mark Doty

The World Doesn’t Want To Be Caught attempts to convey the experience of a short event; the
momentary and fleeting thoughts with more slow and carefully worded accounts. A viewpoint
from just after the moment; another from even further outside.

Hayden is a UK born artist and composer based in Berlin and Helsinki whose practice revolves
around installation and performative sonic art. Their work often centres on inner experience,
language and reduction of hierarchies within sound and other materials.
A background in experimental music has led to recent works that focus on the visual influence
on expectation as well as the multiple interplays between artist, performer and audience.

24/02/2022

Mitchell Keaney on “Nine fixations of a listener”

24/02/2022

Tonight’s evening of performances and lectures with Mitchell Keaney and JCJP-030 has been MOVED to LIETZENBURGER STR. 45, 10777 Berlin, in room 102. We will also start a little earlier (doors at 18:30, first performance 19:00) See you folks there

23/02/2022

Davide Luciani - Nothere

»This Friday 25th Feb SoundsAbout
opens “Nothere” by Davide Luciani,
Vernissage 18Uhr - 22 Uhr !

»’Nothere’ is Luciani’s solo exhibition of sculptural work and visual studies exploring the figures of silence and virtuality. Made entirely out of wax-paraffin, these objects are inspired in their design by components of technical devices and their relation to sound, such as loudspeakers and letters. Luciani’s fascination for wax comes from its ability to embed both solid and liquid states and from the belief that sound and silence can emotionally share the same hazard. Exposing their technological nature through a silent form, these objects re-enact their nature from a spiritual-mental perspective in which the associations are left free to exercise meanings, strategies and the power of becoming silent. 



»Opening time 

25 FEB, 18Uhr - 22Uhr

26 - 28 FEB, 14 Uhr - 21Uhr 



»Sounds About Gallery

Postdamer strasse 161

23/02/2022

TOMORROW NIGHT (Thursday) at 7pm in the Kammersaal at Fasanenstr. 1B, 10623: SoundsAbout presents an evening of performances and lectures with Mitchell Keaney and JCJP-030.

Mitchell Keaney presents ‘Nine Fixations of a Listener’, a performance/lecture focused on understanding oneself within the context of sound art praxis. Mitchell will present some of his research on interconnected personality types, ego fixations, mysticism, and making work that is authentic to oneself and their desires. The presentation will draw upon the traditional teachings of the Enneagram, the Jungian “Shadow Self”, and a notion that “How you do one thing is how you do everything”. Participants /attendees are encouraged to bring a notebook and a writing utensil.

JCJP-030 is a Berlin based trio consisting of video artist Carolina Ovando (CL), filmmaker James Pain (AU) and musician Juan Pablo de Lucca (AR). The group combines field recordings, modular synths, experimental cinematography, and live video mapping to create an interdisciplinary and immersive mode of storytelling. Initially conceived as a livestream during the lockdown months of 2020, the project has since been adapted to also suit a live performance experience. Their audiovisual performance “Berlin / Brandenburg” is personal reflection upon social and environmental issues using recorded material from Berlin and Brandenburg ́s public spaces. The piece is centered around the themes of perception and reality, natural and urban environments, and the relation between humans and technology.

22/02/2022

SoundsAbout updated their website address.

SoundsAbout updated their website address.

16/02/2022

Apparitions in 16mm

| Apparitions in 16mm |
Ani Samperi and martin moolhuijsen

18 FRI : 6PM-10PM
19 SAT & 20 SUN : 4PM-9PM

This exhibition features the 16mm abstract film works and studies of Ani Samperi and martin moolhuijsen, alongside many of the materials used in the processes of making their respective film works. Straddling between the worlds of analog and digital, addition and subtraction, shadow and light, form and formlessness, the raw vibration and texture of these works lends itself to their sculptural qualities with the use of additive and subtractive methods, found footage, mechanical distortion, and optical sound. These sculptural qualities come to the fore with the presentation of various physical materials that describe these film works and their experimental processes.

Ani Alexandra Samperi is a multimedia sound artist based in Berlin. Her practice blurs the lines between experimental film, immersive sound installation, and performance art. Her work has incorporated light; field recordings; repurposed, organic, and resonant materials; feedback; voice; and various combinations of these, and uses concepts inspired by ecoacoustics and esoteric discourse to address questions of human agency, intimacy, and sensual experience.
anisamperi.com

Martin Moolhuijsen is an italian interdisciplinary artist based in berlin. his work is situated at the threshold of sound art, experimental film and experimental poetry and has taken the form of installations, fixed-media pieces, conceptual artworks, poems, signs, films and of any combination of the aforementioned. he likes to define his practice as connecting the dots, not unlike the children game next to crossword puzzles, but without numbers. his work has been presented at Akademie der Künste, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medien and CTM Vorspiel among others. in 2021, he has been awarded the Honorary Mention at the Fourth International Student Biennial for his single copy performative record “Infinite Jest”.

04/02/2022

Join us TONIGHT for the opening of Samuel Perea-Díaz and Jona Wolf's 'Transitory Sonic Bodies'

Vernissage 4th Feb 18:00 – 22:00
Other daily opening times: 14:00-19:00

This installation focuses on the state of matter and highlights moments of the transformation process. In that way, unstable forms resonate and vibrate while emphasizing particular moments of the process of sculpting and sonifying. This event is an ongoing dialogical process between both artists working with sound and spatial design. In that way, the show reveals one specific moment within this artistic research exploration. The objects presented in the gallery are from different materials with very distinct masses and volumes combined with embedded speakers that activate the sculpture through audible forms—resembling that the sound is triggered, amplified, swallowed, and transformed into movement depending on the material.

About the artists:

Samuel Perea-Díaz is an artist and designer living and working in Berlin. Along with architecture and spatial design, their practice incorporates exhibition scenography, curating and sound. Samuel often works with field-recording and generative sound to produce site-specific installations and situated-sound objects.

Jona Wolf is a researcher, designer and visual artist. Jona works on interdisciplinary projects ranging from spatial installations to product design. Jona’s projects combine digital fabrication methods and traditional materials such as clay, wood, fabric or metal. These physical installations and objects are connected to an ongoing research and interest in performance and sound.

https://fb.me/e/1uug01qAO

25/01/2022

This Friday Jan 28th is the opening of Udo Koloska's exhibition 'The EVENT - Rosetta Variations'

Opening Night Jan 28, 18:00 – 22:00
29 + 30 Jan: 14:00 – 19:00

sound objects
16-channel audio, metal grid, small speakers, cable

Within the Rosetta mission the European Space Agency (ESA) published in 2014 detected waves of the comet 67/P and announced: “Scientists working on Rosetta’s RPC instrument has uncovered a mysterious song that Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is singing into space.” The data showed amazing rhythmic structures, which were transferred into the audible range mainly by transposition, to be framed as a song and a singing comet. What are these events that read like double framing? The first: Our attitude towards nature has become a technical one. Our human senses are so technically enhanced that we can perceive rhythmic magnetic oscillations 400 million kilometers away. The second event is a fantastic one: a crossing of cosmic distance and all technical processes of sonification in between – the fantastic object of a singing comet, ecstasy as a mode of perception. The installation uses the sound files published at the time by the European Space Agency and in turn traverses the frames of perception. What is the real?

This event is 2G plus - check out the FB event for more details: https://fb.me/e/1i3QVfgHt