NB! NEW DATE!
The new date of ÄÄNEEN – Sonic Arts Month closing talk is on March 27th, 2021!
16 – 18 The Field of Sonic Arts – Closing Talk
ÄÄNEEN – Sonic Arts Month ends with a discussion between different local actors of the field. The topics of the discussion stem from the experiences gathered during the NeuroVerkko project that Äänen Lumo initiated in 2017 (read more about the project below). Some of the themes discussed are: new ways of collaboration and coordination, new creative, non-commercial, and inclusive practices, a report on the current discussion around the House of Visual Arts, as well as some thoughts and feelings on the experience of this now ending festival. Äänen Lumo invites all the local sonic arts communities, new and old, to take part in the discussion!
The discussion takes place online on the Zoom platform, you can get the participation link by sending an email to aanenlumo.info(at)gmail.com. The language of the discussion is English.
Warmly welcome!
Äänen Lumo beyond NeuroVerkko
In 2017, Äänen Lumo’s project NeuroVerkko was supported by the Kone Foundation. The scope of the project was to reach out to the local sonic arts community in Helsinki, understand how its actors had changed in the last years, what are their interests, needs and struggles, and ultimately how could Äänen Lumo as an association rethink its function so that the association would be still be meaningful also twenty years after it was founded. In the meanwhile sonic arts expanded to encompass a multiplicity of different directions and practices, with boundaries that are often interlinked. Helsinki has become a very lively place, nurturing through associations, collectives and other permanent and temporary communities a constellation of sonic cultures producing and diffusing sonic arts in the widest possible acceptances of the term.
At the same time, many small and micro actors often tend to involuntarily “compete” with each other, subdividing resources. Most of the people involved in the NeuroVerkko project manifested a need for more (material and immaterial) resources for independent, experimental projects, operating outside of the commercial logic. Other common themes were a shared will to reformulate the duality “professional/amateur” on the one hand, and to rethink the historical opposition between audience and artists.
Three years later, the ÄÄNEEN – Sonic Arts festival is the first concrete step in the direction of consolidating this network in the name of creative, non-commercial inclusive practices. We invite you once again to meet us virtually to discuss the state of the local sonic arts scene, also in the light of new initiatives such as discussion around the House of Visual Arts and how the local sonic art audience feels about it. It will also be an occasion to comment on the state of this event and hopefully to start imagining more future initiative!
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The event is the closing event of ÄÄNEEN – Sonic Arts Month in February 2021 that has been realised in collaboration between MUU ry, Äänen Lumo, and several actors in the local field of sonic arts. The programme has been formed through an open call for co-curation and the events are supported by Niilo Helanderin säätiö and the City of Helsinki. Due to the recent development of the pandemic, the festival collaborates also with Station of Commons, a collaborative initiative on digital commoning practices. www.stationofcommons.org
More info about ÄÄNEEN – Sonic Arts Month: