Thursday, October 23
5 - 11 pm
A Group Exhibition
by
Tonespace
five sound installations by the Danish group Tonespace, from the conservatory of West Jutland
Computer technology is pivotal for this new Danish educational program - partly as an instrument for the creating and performing musician, but also due to the fact that computers are today's most powerful informational tools.
The TONESPACE education at the conservatory of West Jutland is a hybrid combining music and project- based education and hereby this special coined education places itself in the centre of the present tendency of dissolving the rigid lines between arts, culture and media. The TONESPACE education, the TONESPACE festival and the coming TONESPACE building in the town of Esbjerg are all intertwined as an experimental conglomerate that gives birth to new ways of expression and performance.
Tonespace New York Group Exhibition
AquEqu, (2008)
Harald me. Viuff, B. 1963 in Denmark
Deep sea sounds recorded
with unique 3D hydrophone setups, composed with complex filters and computer
layouts, to be blasted out on multi speaker systems.
Fairytale sounds from when
we were still laying in the wombs of our mothers, are told by real trans-world
sounds and overwhelming filtered details.
Silence, this
way, (2008)
Jens Toyberg-Frandzen, B. 1977 in Sweden
Noise and silence
are the key factors for my artistic process and creations. This piece
is built on the following observations:
- In focused listening, mental
noise is "turned down" to let me hear my surroundings.
- In isolation, the silent
surroundings let my mental noise blossom.
In this piece, focused listening and isolation are re-represented in sound.
This puts the listener in the audial center of creation.
Completing his masters studies
in electronic music and mediation (the Tonespace program) at the West
Jutland Music Conservatory of Esbjerg, Denmark, Toyberg-Frandzen's recent
work has changed focus from pure musical composition, towards sound art.
"My projects grow out of an urge
to find logic and beauty in randomized material, and uncontrollable environments.
The main focus for my master studies concerns conservation of room ambiences,
a process that has developed from experimenting with moving ambiences
out of their settings, and putting them into new contexts."
Northern Light
Symphony, (2008)
Kristjan Thor Hedinsson, B. 1982 in Iceland
This installation is in the form of a 3D space. The idea of this sound installation is to create a connection between northern visuals and western audio. The sounds from the cube are the artists own visual experience of the Northern lights transformed into an audiovisual space. The listener will experience how we can hear the non-existing sounds around us by connecting what we see in our mind. To enhance the journey there will be paper and ink available for the listeners to draw what they hear. The artist, Kristjan Thor Hedinsson, is a musician, singer, producer and a sound artist. His work is mainly inspired by the true quality of nature combined with the various images of culture. Colored by his island origins and his music background he often blends the two together with his Rock'n'Roll fantasies, creating acoustic sounds of sadness that bellow in his mind.
My Dreams are
made of Air, (2008)
Sos Gunver Ryberg, B. 1979 in Denmark
Imagine you are
sitting in a boat where the voice is the wind that brings you into a journey.
The piece explores the non-physical
realm vs. the physical one. Concrete sounds e.g. breath and water and
the behavior of natural elements such as wind are turned upside down immersed
in poetic, dreamy and meditative textures. "When I turn the dream around/I
see the same stones falling down/from the sky/or flying up". A voice moving
like the wind.
During the last years S¿s
has worked with performance, sound - and video installations for galleries,
exhibition halls, festivals and public urban spaces in Denmark andÊ at
The Istanbul Biennale (2007).
Through her art, S¿s creates
an environment for reflection using her unique narrative approach and
her ability to unite it with nature.
The Sand Scribe,
(2008)
Andreas Busk, B. 1979 in Denmark
Nonne Mai Svalholm, B. 1977 in Denmark
The piece 'The Sand
Scribe' was made for and composed during the Danish Wadden Sea Festival
2008.
In the compositional process, sound
artist Andreas Busk worked with choreographer and ballet dancer Nonne
Mai Svalholm. Together, the two integrated movement and music in a strong
and fresh composition.
Tonespace in New York is supported by: Diapason and Michael Schumacher, New Wilderness Foundation Inc., VMK, Esbjerg DK and a spatialization workshop by Alban Bassuet.
