Ääneen – Sonic Arts Month
5 – 28 February 2021
MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre
Cable Factory
Tallberginkatu 1 C, 00180 Helsinki, Finland
In February 2021 the new MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre at Cable Factory is taken over by sonic arts. The month is dedicated to a collaborative sonic arts festival with installations, workshops, concerts, and talks concentrating on sonic arts. The month starts with an online sound and drawing workshop by artist Emma Fält on February 5th and continues with a concert evening curated by Äänen Lumo on February 6th. Throughout the month the sound installation Song for the Unknown by Heta Kaisto and Antti Ikonen can be experienced in the gallery space. Ääneen – Sonic Arts Month is coordinated by Äänen Lumo in collaboration with MUU, and includes several actors in the local field of sonic arts.
Read more about the online sound and drawing workshop Invenzioni a due voci by artist Emma Fält on 5.2.2021 HERE.
MUU ry reached out to Äänen Lumo in 2020 to collaborate in organising a Sonic Arts Month. The idea developed to involve the big network of Sonic Arts communities that Äänen Lumo has been working with in the two-years-long project NeuroVerkko financed by Kone Foundation. The programme of the Sonic Arts festival was formed through an open call for co-curation and Äänen Lumo has acted as the convener and coordinator of the month together with MUU ry. The artists and associations participating in the month are Emma Fält (FI), Antti Ikonen (FI), Heta Kaisto (FI), Third Space, J. Koho (FI), Kati Roover (FI), Marloes Van Son (NL/FI), Alejandro Olarte (CO), Freja Bäckman (FI), MYÖS (FI), Free Frag / Steeve Bauras (FR), Samuli Tanner (FI), Minerva Juolahti (FI), Joona Mäkelä (FI), Saara Viika (FI), Timo Tikka (FI), L O (Lora Dimova (BU/FI)), Marko Timlin (DE/FI), and Ana Gutieszca (MX/FI).
Due to the recent development of the pandemic, the Sonic Arts Month festival has become a platform for experimenting with hybrid forms of local and remote participation to workshops and performances together with Station of the Commons, a local reality that is an ongoing collaborative initiative on digital commoning practices. Station of Commons was initiated in February 2020 and it investigates the possibilities of reappropriating technology within public space.
Why is it often difficult to imagine alternatives in our culture?
You can read more at: https://stationofcommons.org/events/expanding-the-frame-re-appropriating-the-video-object
Given the circumstances in which the festival is taking place, the events will be streamed and accessible remotely, but MUU Helsinki event space can still be accessed in person in small groups of max 5 people.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR STREAMING – In order to watch the stream we recommend downloading the VLC media player (the best free and open source multi-platform media player there is). https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html – Once installed click: File -> Open network, and copy paste one of the following links: https://streamer.nettitila.fi:8443/video1 or http://streamer.nettitila.fi:8000/video1. Wait for a short moment and you should see the video window open. – More instructions are available: https://www.vlchelp.com/stream-online-videos-pc-vlc-media-player/ – Or you can go to the Station of Commons website: http://www.stationofcommons.org/peers/aanen-lumo and follow the instructions. Enjoy!
Why is VLC used for the streaming of ÄÄNEEN – Sonic Arts Month? Because the quality and reliability of the streaming are highly increased by using VLC. Because we know how the software we are using to stream the content operates, and where the data is sitting, and how it is flowing through the net. Why not to use Facebook, YouTube or other familiar platforms? Because we don’t have to. Thanks to open source technology developed by a large community and the expertise of a local community – such as Station of Commons – we want to show that alternatives to proprietary technology, and commercial and centralizing schemes of distributing artistic content are possible and easy.
The festival is realised with the support of Niilo Helanderin säätiö and the City of Helsinki.
Programme
Exhibition:
7.2.- 28.2. Heta Kaisto & Antti Ikonen: Song for the Unknown – Sound Installation
Events:
5.2. Emma Fält: Invenzioni a due voci – Workshop
6.2. Äänen Lumo – Evening concert
12.2. Station of Sound – Vol. I – Talk & Evening concert
13.2. Learning by ear – Talk & Evening concert
20.2. Sound Room – Evening concert
27.2. KUULOLLA – Workshop & Evening concert
28.2. Neuroverkko – Closing Talk
More detail on the schedule will be announced soon!
Inquiries
MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre / muugalleria(at)muu.fi / www.muu.fi
Äänen Lumo / aanenlumo.info(at)gmail.com / www.aanenlumo.com