No time-restricted anouncements in this newsletter after our previous routinous scene over here; this time, there is space for unrestricted expression.
European collaborative project tekhnē’s website is online in a somewhat next version. From now on, events, artists, research, a journal, and blog posts around the topic will be progressively featured by the six participating partners, each taking their own approach on the emancipatory potential of technology in music and sound art.
Our yearly open call for the Showcase Emerging Sound in collaboration with STUK is online too – as is our own call for interns who want to be help organise our annual Oscillation festival.
The last two Second Sundays listening sessions by Valérie Vivancos and Clara Lévy are now also available to listen to, and to conclude, we’d like to highlight two sound walking incentives: the oto-date listening points by Akio Suzuki got a well-deserved refresh, and Going Out – Walking, Listening, Soundmakingby Elena Biserna got its first reprint.
Anyway: no more talkin’, we’re sound walkin’.
European collaborative project tekhnē website
The tekhnē website is at full force after a couple of months of fine-tuning behind the scenes. [removed] is from now on an ever-expanding place for exploring the emancipatory potential of technology in music and sound art for the following 4 [removed];
Since the website functions as an junction for everything tekhnē-related, and because building a website is pivotally related to what the collaboration is all about, some words on this can be found in the first blog post. The open call for research residencies is still running: more information on the research residencies can be found on the application form here.
oto-date Akio Suzuki
Oto-date is a project by the Japanese artist Akio Suzuki in which he invites the audience to stand still on specific spots in the urban space. These places are marked by a pictogram which shows a hybrid of human footprints and ears. The project seeks to get people listening to the sounds that surround them without the mediation of headphones. The Japanese term oto-date consists of the ideograms for “listen” and “point,” hence “listening point”, and is inspired by the Japanese tea ceremony “nodate”, which is held in open air. Since the audience is invited to listen to the sonic environment of the city, there are no soundtracks for this walk. [read more]
Open call Showcase Emerging Sound
STUK and Q-O2 present an annual showcase of emerging sound artists in Belgium. The showcase shines a light on the diversity of the Belgian sound art landscape, and gives a boost to an upcoming generation of makers. We are looking for recent, existing sound work in any format: performance, installation, soundwalk, radio piece, intervention or other innovative formats. The selected works will be presented in STUK on Thursday 16 May [removed]; [read more]
Call for interns Oscillation
Oscillation is taking place from April 30 untill May 5. As always, we’ll need many interns both during the festival and beforehand to help make it happen. If you’re interested in getting some practical experience with organising a music festival—everything from setting up a PA system, coordinating travels, meeting artists, to observing how such a festival comes together—don’t hesitate to get in touch via
Reprint Going Out – Elena Biserna
The second edition of Going Out: Walking, Listening, Soundmaking has arrived. Edited by Elena Biserna, our anthology that traces the long legacy of interdisciplinary experimentations at the intersection of walking, listening, and soundmaking, is available again via Les Presses du Réel. Don’t sleep on it this time! [read more]