A Day of Noise - Hillel Schwartz, Remco van Bladel, Gijs Gieskes and Andre Avelas
During Dutch Design Week, on Saturday 25 October, Sonic Acts presents A Day of Noise in Temporary Art Centre (TAC) in Eindhoven. The programme dives into noise in design, daily life and music, and proposes noise as a methodology. Even though noise is a continuous and mostly unwanted aspect of the design process, most artists and designers are unaware of its potential and the influence it has on their decision-making. How can we be more aware of this potential in a world where aspects of time, constant transformation, unpredictability and uncertainty are becoming more and more important? A Day of Noise explores this question through a workshop, a programme of lectures, and a live concert. It is organised in cooperation with ArtEZ Institute of the Arts. RSVP: facebook event Workshop by Gijs Gieskes In the workshop with Dutch electronic musician and designer Gijs Gieskes, participants will be taught the fundamentals of circuit bending and embrace a DIY attitude towards technology. Participants will learn how to add an oscillator to a low voltage device like an old CD-player, cheap keyboard, torch or computer mouse, to transform it into an apparatus that keeps repeating the same activity. Saturday 25 October 2014 Time: 10.00–16.00 Location: TAC Lecture Hall Temporary Art Centre (TAC), Vonderweg 1, 5611 BK Eindhoven Fee: € 20,- / € 15,- for students Join: Send a short biography and motivation to masterclass[at]sonicacts[.]com. Deadline for applications is Sunday 19 October. Keynote lecture by Hillel Schwartz & presentation by Remco van Bladel Graphic designer Remco van Bladel’s presentation will draw analogies between contemporary graphic design and musical theories of the 20th century avant-garde. Going from the I Ching and mesostic to phase shifting, feedback, dissonance, and glitch, he touches on the question: ‘How can one define a (typo)graphic methodology based on the works of for instance John Cage, Steve Reich, John Zorn, Oval or perhaps even Merzbow?’ In his keynote lecture, cultural historian Hillel Schwartz will first talk about noise as a socio-acoustic phenomenon: how noise is conditioned historically, politically, and aesthetically by relationships between people and by convergences in the trajectories of technology, art, and culture. He will then talk about noise and time: how noise is experienced through time, and how noise affects our experience of time, which in turns affects our impression of the differences between the private and public spheres. The lecture is followed by a Q&A with Hillel Schwartz, moderated by Sonic Acts’ Arie Altena. Saturday 25 October 2014 Time: 17.00–18.45 Location: TAC Lecture Hall Temporary Art Centre (TAC), Vonderweg 1, 5611 BK Eindhoven Entrance: €5,- / €2,50 students Tickets: regular / students Live performances by Gijs Gieskes and André Avelãs The evening ends with live performances by noise masters Gijs Gieskes and André Avelãs, and dj Team of Orphax. Gijs Gieskes plays his own electronic devices, André Avelãs performs his work Oscillators on Band-saws, using old band-saws from the family sawmill to create low frequencies and resonating noise. Saturday 25 October 2014 Open: 20.00 Location: TAC Tuinzaal Temporary Art Centre (TAC), Vonderweg 1, 5611 BK Eindhoven Entrance: €5,- / €2,50 students Tickets: regular / students A Day of Noise is organised in cooperation with ArtEZ Institute of the Arts and is part of Uncertainty Studios, a week-long programme conducted by the Product and Interaction Design departments of ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, Arnhem. Uncertainty Studios showcases an exhibition by young and established product and interaction designers, a project with third-year students, and a series of lectures by international speakers on lightness, noise, fiction and psychology. Biographies André Avelãs (PT) is a sound artist who lives and works in Amsterdam. His works (performances, sculpture, installations, and recordings) explore the ways in which sound is produced, and how sound creates meaning in relation to space and the conditions under which it is heard. Central to his practice is a focus on sound not as a carrier of content but as a malleable material that shifts and changes in relation to the methods and machines through which it is generated, reproduced and experienced. Remco van Bladel (NL) is a graphic designer, musician and art book publisher based in Amsterdam. He is the co-founder of Onomatopee and the online platform WdW Review. His studio focuses on editorial book design, (online) publishing projects, curatorial projects, institutional identities, interactive applications and websites. He is a typography and graphic design tutor at Art and Design, ArtEZ Institute of the Arts. Gijs Gieskes (NL) is an electronic musician and industrial designer who builds and modifies his own electronic devices for audiovisual use. The devices are often sold as kits but can also be purchased pre-assembled. Hillel Schwartz (US) is currently the Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. As a cultural historian he is the author of the impressive Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond (Zone, 2011). As a medical case manager, he has published Long Days Last Days: A Down-to_earth Guide for those at the Bedside (2013). As a poet and translator, he has published, together with Sunny Jung, a translation of the work of the poet Kim Nam-jo, one of Korea's leading poets: Rain Sky Wind Port (Codhill Press, 2014).
A Day of Noise
During Dutch Design Week, on Saturday 25 October, Sonic Acts presents A Day of Noise in Temporary Art Centre (TAC) in Eindhoven. The programme dives into noise in design, daily life and music, and proposes noise as a methodology. Even though noise is a continuous and mostly unwanted aspect of the design process, most artists and designers are unaware of its potential and the influence it has on their decision-making. How can we be more aware of this potential in a world where aspects of time, constant transformation, unpredictability and uncertainty are becoming more and more important? A Day of Noise explores this question through a workshop, a programme of lectures, and a live concert. It is organised in cooperation with ArtEZ Institute of the Arts. RSVP: facebook event Workshop by Gijs Gieskes In the workshop with Dutch electronic musician and designer Gijs Gieskes, participants will be taught the fundamentals of circuit bending and embrace a DIY attitude towards technology. Participants will learn how to add an oscillator to a low voltage device like an old CD-player, cheap keyboard, torch or computer mouse, to transform it into an apparatus that keeps repeating the same activity. Saturday 25 October 2014 Time: 10.00–16.00 Location: TAC Lecture Hall Temporary Art Centre (TAC), Vonderweg 1, 5611 BK Eindhoven Fee: € 20,- / € 15,- for students Join: Send a short biography and motivation to masterclass[at]sonicacts[.]com. Deadline for applications is Sunday 19 October. Keynote lecture by Hillel Schwartz & presentation by Remco van Bladel Graphic designer Remco van Bladel’s presentation will draw analogies between contemporary graphic design and musical theories of the 20th century avant-garde. Going from the I Ching and mesostic to phase shifting, feedback, dissonance, and glitch, he touches on the question: ‘How can one define a (typo)graphic methodology based on the works of for instance John Cage, Steve Reich, John Zorn, Oval or perhaps even Merzbow?’ In his keynote lecture, cultural historian Hillel Schwartz will first talk about noise as a socio-acoustic phenomenon: how noise is conditioned historically, politically, and aesthetically by relationships between people and by convergences in the trajectories of technology, art, and culture. He will then talk about noise and time: how noise is experienced through time, and how noise affects our experience of time, which in turns affects our impression of the differences between the private and public spheres. The lecture is followed by a Q&A with Hillel Schwartz, moderated by Sonic Acts’ Arie Altena. Saturday 25 October 2014 Time: 17.00–18.45 Location: TAC Lecture Hall Temporary Art Centre (TAC), Vonderweg 1, 5611 BK Eindhoven Entrance: €5,- / €2,50 students Tickets: regular / students Live performances by Gijs Gieskes and André Avelãs The evening ends with live performances by noise masters Gijs Gieskes and André Avelãs, and dj Team of Orphax. Gijs Gieskes plays his own electronic devices, André Avelãs performs his work Oscillators on Band-saws, using old band-saws from the family sawmill to create low frequencies and resonating noise. Saturday 25 October 2014 Open: 20.00 Location: TAC Tuinzaal Temporary Art Centre (TAC), Vonderweg 1, 5611 BK Eindhoven Entrance: €5,- / €2,50 students Tickets: regular / students A Day of Noise is organised in cooperation with ArtEZ Institute of the Arts and is part of Uncertainty Studios, a week-long programme conducted by the Product and Interaction Design departments of ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, Arnhem. Uncertainty Studios showcases an exhibition by young and established product and interaction designers, a project with third-year students, and a series of lectures by international speakers on lightness, noise, fiction and psychology. Biographies André Avelãs (PT) is a sound artist who lives and works in Amsterdam. His works (performances, sculpture, installations, and recordings) explore the ways in which sound is produced, and how sound creates meaning in relation to space and the conditions under which it is heard. Central to his practice is a focus on sound not as a carrier of content but as a malleable material that shifts and changes in relation to the methods and machines through which it is generated, reproduced and experienced. Remco van Bladel (NL) is a graphic designer, musician and art book publisher based in Amsterdam. He is the co-founder of Onomatopee and the online platform WdW Review. His studio focuses on editorial book design, (online) publishing projects, curatorial projects, institutional identities, interactive applications and websites. He is a typography and graphic design tutor at Art and Design, ArtEZ Institute of the Arts. Gijs Gieskes (NL) is an electronic musician and industrial designer who builds and modifies his own electronic devices for audiovisual use. The devices are often sold as kits but can also be purchased pre-assembled. Hillel Schwartz (US) is currently the Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. As a cultural historian he is the author of the impressive Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond (Zone, 2011). As a medical case manager, he has published Long Days Last Days: A Down-to_earth Guide for those at the Bedside (2013). As a poet and translator, he has published, together with Sunny Jung, a translation of the work of the poet Kim Nam-jo, one of Korea's leading poets: Rain Sky Wind Port (Codhill Press, 2014).