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Festival garage 4 August to 1 September 2001

garage understands itself as an open space for the production and transmission of art/culture. It is workshop, open studio and realm for experiments. It wants to enrich the cultural landscape of the town, reveal potential and demand and support art projects especially of the younger generation. garage is interface between inside and outside in two ways. Firstly, the attraction of the region is to be used to invite artists to realise projects, organise workshops or to perform in Stralsund. Secondly, the activities of the festival are set up to make the town of Stralsund more interesting for visitors.

With our work we consciously confront the local social problems and cultural vacancies. garage tries to define the character of the one-month-festival as diverse and currently relevant through the choice of a certain topic. To explore the role of art and media within the social context, to disclose herein tasks and possibilities, to look behind positions and expectations, is subject of our work. In the last years we have been focusing on interconnection with similarly working projects and artists within the European context.

Topic 2001
between image and sound

"The eye is the master, the ear a slave" (Jakob Grimm) - the dominance of the visual over the acoustic perception is omnipresent in cultural history. Naturally, they also condition and influence each other. The function of the whole perceptional instrument is sensually and physically only possible when both interact. What happens for instance, if one withdraws the acoustic or visual component from a spacial perception? How does the space change? Or what happens, if both traces of perception are desynchronized? The relation between sound and image is transient; sight and hearing are part of a structure that can take on new forms again and again - in respect of space, time and content.

In respect to the omnipresent media discussion we want to consciously focus on the mono media and thereby debate the relation between hearing and seeing under the aspects mentioned above. The discussion can be held on a theoretical or content basis, or in the context of an exhibition or performance. The main emphasis will lie on the discussion of new concepts of sound and image production/ manipulation and their presentation/ mediation/ distribution, also in comparison to "classical" forms of art production. Additionally, we will investigate new possibilities of the synthesis resp. the juxtaposition of image and sound; especially explore their role and use in the internet. Testing the relevance and efficiency of art beyond its aesthetical end in itself and the question of the role of the transmitter and receiver of the "data work" are an essential part of the programme.

The fesitval will present 4 weeks of exhibitions, concerts, discussions, film screenings, workshops, which can be summarized under the following main topics.

[1] sound without image - or the image in the mind
The main emphasis will lie on the discussion of new concepts of sound production/manipulation and their presentation/ mediation/ distribution. An excursion into the world of tunes and sounds is going to present concerts, (live) radio plays, sound installations, radio art and net audio projects.

[2] image with sound - or the picture on the wall
3rd international shortfilm festival "g-niale"
The topic of the "g-niale" is related to the main festival as a conscious discussion concerning individual media and their interaction with film and beyond. Thereby illustrating seeing and hearing in a wider sense – by emphasizing or consistent dropping of one of the two elements.

[3] sound and image - or the image within space
From monomedia to multimedia.
Media breaks, interaction und collaboration, border crossing and synthesis.
Attempts to visualise sound and to set images to music.

[o] opening
       04.08. - 08.08.
[1] sound w/o image
       09.08. - 12.08
[2] image with sound
       16.08. - 19.08
[3] sound and image
       24.08. - 26.08.
[c] conclusion
       30.08. - 01.09.
bittenichtumbrechenen

[o] opening
04.08. - 08.08.

saturday 04.08. | 19 h | garage

Die HörBar (audio lounge) info >> info (german)
Radio plays on the air mattress. An extensive audio archive for audio art, radio plays and music.
>> schedule

cyan (Berlin/Leipzig) info >> info (german)
Posters, graphic works in the context of new/experimental music.

a digital soap opera - Dwane Tommy Filipowicz (Sweden)

Room installation. 6 x mac classic (SE) and 6 black-and-white-stories between image and sound.

"Dad, what does a picture of a sound, sound like?"
A movie about the the difficulties of talking about the most import issues with your parents. Story: 58 pictures, that until now has only existed to what soundwaves look like, unexpectedly gets the opportunity to show what they themselves sound like.

"I never thought it would go this wrong."
A brutal depiction of merciless living conditions. Story: a picture fights an uneven struggle for survival. Its appearance is rejected and distorted. Will it ever be shown in its proper condition?

"It´s like that, and that´s the way it is."
The events in the movie have never taken place.

"We thought that we would be stronger together."
Drama: two computerfiles are put together to form a new file. The future looks promising. But the process wears the relationship out, and it is finally drained of substance.

"No, I´m not going to understand what you are saying."
A tragicomic depiction of how onesided values lead to a bizarre view of the world. Comedy: a computerfile enters an alien system, gets missinterpreted and is percieved as nervous white spot.

"You mean that silence doesn´t... exist?"
What is silence, and what does it look like? Story: one minute of silence is amplified until it is forced to show its right face, in both sound and picture.

amorphoscapes - Stanza (UK)
Online audio-interfaces. Interactive audio visual digital paintings and drawings for the internet.

AMORPHOSCAPES move away from 'linear' pieces into a more non linear and interactive experience giving the audience some control over the artwork. AMORPHOSCAPES allows you to experience different artworks depending on how you choose to navigate. As well as this non linearity, some of the pieces change over time. Evolving pieces exist, that the "user" has to control of and makes them work by movement. The user also can input changes of sound and picture. This change in the relationship between the audience and the artist changes our perception of the artwork. It is this concept of the individual functioning simultaneously as 'producer and consumer' that underpins the nature of AMORPHISMS. The user can choose what they experience. Amorphoscapes are audio visual generative digital paintings. In the future to be projected onto buildings on clothes and on cars . They incorporate user defined areas. Users can control the sounds and pictures and change their amorphoscapes when they get bored with them. Or watch them change themselves, on your plasma canvas wall.

Cymatic Circuit - Matthias Fitz (Berlin) info >> info (german)
Interactive object. A device that produces lightly humming images to use them instantly for its own feeding.

Tilman Küntzel (Lüneburg/Stockholm)
flying shipwaves info >> info (german)
Installation and performance for radio waves and ship traffic.

F2 - Wochenendhaus. ifau (Berlin) info >> info (german)
Which city has which label or The selling of holiday houses as an aspec of town development.

WALK - Willem de Ridder (Netherlands)
An audio adventure through the town.

Willem de Ridder is something like a living legend. In the Netherlands he is mostly known fof his spectacular radio projects: he directs situations by radio announcements. Protagonists of these radio performances are all those listeners who want to be distracted and led by it. Willem de Ridder is media personality, radio artist, ex-Fluxus organiser for Northern Europe, publisher, pornographer and master
storyteller.
On a public place in the town a WALK will be installed. This place can be a buildung or a single room, it can also include the whole town area. Participants/visitors receive only a walkman with instructions. The tape leads them to an accustumed or completely unknown place and makes them experience a new, active adventure. Since the participant will very quickly identify with the voice on the tape his perception changes (the stories take place in his head).
The participant is alone during the WALK. At some points it is absolutely dark, so that the instructions become very important. At other places one has to llie on a bed, to sit on a chair, to wait for someone who won’t come, or to sit in a taxi, to step on forbidden areas, etc.
Manipulation, illusion and storytelling – a play with expectations, with the seemingly known, with perception and its relativity in space and time.

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Remaclus Adrianus Remco Schuurbiers aka
TAPPO KONTAKT (Amsterdam/Berlin)

Born 29-09-68 in Breda, The Netherlands, lives and works in The Haque and Berlin. Studied Photographic Design at the Royal Acadamy of Fine Arts and Image and Sound at the Royal Conservatorium, The Hague. Remco Schuurbiers works on the borders of digital video and audio thus making abstract compositions, installations or performances (e.g. Sonar 1999, Club Transmediale 2001). In projects he works with musicians in the field of Contemporary Electronic Music producing composed or improvised audiovisual performances. Most recently he has two main projects, the first together with the dutch composer Huib Emmer (Loos-Ensemble) and the second ?Syntax Error together with dutch audioartist Scaletti(Raoul de Vries). In addition he appears as VJ and DJ, does Videoclips for several artist and labels like Bunker Records, HotmixRecords, Phako, I-f, Gorefest and works as a curator among others for Club Transmediale 2001 and Sonic Acts 2001 Festival in Paradiso, Amsterdam.

sunday 05.08. | 21 h | speicher nr. 9

installation/concert
sonic wargame (The Hague)

the participants will be:
Thijs Scheele
Dave Krooshof
Ernst van der Loo
Leon Spek
Anne Wellmer
Jeroen Opstelten

There are 4 teams of musicians and a referee. All teams have their own little island in the room. The islands are interconnected so that teams can sample and process eachothers sound material. The teams introduce themselves with a short performance of max. 5 minutes each. During these performances, the teams can gather sound material by sampling eachother to enter the sonic warzone with when the game starts off.
The game is played with an installation of switch-boxes and lightbulbs that are all connected to a "brain" of electric switches. Each team is provided with a switch-box with which they can vote for one of the other three teams. If a team has two or more votes, the brain will make it's sound audible and switch on a light. Also, there is a "joker" (as in a deck of cards) that will give 4 minutes of solo-audibility. It can be used only once and the teams have to wait for their turn, indicated by a red light.
In really urgent cases, teams can ask the referee for audibility by pushing the request-button on their switchbox.
All teams are also provided with a mini-camera that can be bent in any direction. The images of the cameras are mixed and processed live.

Xavier Christiaan Aurelius Augustinus van Wersch - xaflab (The Hague)
born 1976, Royal Conservatory, the Hague; institute of Sonology, studied philosophy and animation-film. Since 1997 numerous performances, video, network and sound installations, tape compositions, performed at media art festivals (Transmediale Berlin 2001), co-founder of sonic wargame. Worked and performed with: Dave Krooshof, Maria-Grazia d’Alessio, Konijn Inconnu, Thijs Scheele, the intertemporain ensemble, fint/spog, Arq, Davek, Opstelten, Anne Wellmer, Zeitblom, Pierre Bastien, a.o.

18 h | speicher katharinenberg
Atelier Broiler & Broccoli info >> info (german)
Illustrated books

starting 5 August
workshop/project
radio g info >> info (german)
(net)radio for the accompaniment and documentation of the festival.

workshop/project
RE.SRC info >> info (german)
Temporary netcast project - experimental broadcast concepts (streaming via max/msp and nato)

[1] sound without image - or the image in the mind
09.08. - 12.08 info >> info (german)

thursday 09.08. | 21 h | garage

installation/performance/live radio play
"Quai West" by Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948-1989) info >> info (german)

Stefan Bleidorn - stage design (Berlin)
A play about bottomlessness and deceived perception. An apocalyptic parable. "Quai West" is a project in cooperation with the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee and the theatre of Stralsund.

friday 10.08. | 21 h | speicher nr. 9

the instrument in the age of its ability of technical reproduction info >> info (german)
Three soloists approach the listener from different perspectives.

1 the instrument
Eberhard Blum (Berlin) - voice - "Ursonate" by Kurt Schwitters
"My material is music, but art is my subject." Blum is best known for his attempt to combine fine art and music and the constant expansion of his instrument.

2 the instrument and the computer
Axel Dörner (Berlin) - trumpet/max
The interface between the classical instrument and the computer.

3 the computer
Stephan Mathieu (Saarbrücken) – max/Supercolider
His music consists of microscopic analyses and modulations of acoustic sound sources. "It's all about: extracting sounds from homeopathic vibrations of their source".

saturday 11.08. | 21 h | speicher nr. 9

the Listening Space info >> info (german)
Kaffe Matthews (UK)
Antye Greie-Fuchs (Berlin)

film the sound

sound without image - non existant image trace
sound on the wall - a wall placed in brain projection under your forehead
are you a visual person ?
what do u see
when u close ur eyes
and listen to music

antye greie-fuchs (berlin) and kaffe matthews (london)
play a concert together
the audience will be invited into an immersive 8 channel sound system
equipped with eye patches

eyes held closed to remove visual distraction.
so the listener can listen completely
develop an immersed acoustic space
a world behind eyelids beneath brains.
even a will to visualize

film the tone

live sampling and improvising
with sonic snatches from the venue and around,
harbour, people, spaces...
reprocessing in lines and beating crackles during the show,
playing inside a circle of speakers with the audience.
making pieces crackling with digita and tones and static,
fizzing into pounding beats and cut
to some hanging still space of beauty.

before: Life Unseen - Darren Copeland - (Can)
A radiophonic 8-channel tape composition.

starting saturday 11.08.
aftershow - garage
soundlounge any affair (Basel)info >> info (german)
Sibylle Hauert, Daniel Reichmuth and Volker Böhm (programming)

On a "flying" sofa two "soundpilots" welcome a guest and take him to a "virtual" world. The trip takes about 15 minutes. couch-coaching via max/msp.

sunday 12.08. | 20 h | garage

interactive radio play
by Peteris Kimelis and X-Change
The Tallest Tanker

curated by Sabine Breitsameter in cooperation with the Acoustic.Space.Lab Symposium (Irbene, Lettland)

Two sites - two festivals - two artists. Garage and acoustic space.lab. Harbour Island and radio telescope. 150 min
Co-streaming between Stralsund and Riga.

The old East-West-connection: the big water. Short waves and underwater civilisations. Sea sickness and spinning. Oil tapestries and acid drains without borders. A gigantic Sowjet oiltanker, which once exploded, did not only leave fishes in the net, belly upwards, but manipulates until today streams and substreams in the Baltic sea.
The world's tallest tanker has dissolved to a oscillating electromagnetic play of the waves. Landlubbers are invited to diving sessions. But nothing can happen without security measures and surveillance. The participants might not understand the play immediately, but will find themselves involved unexpectedly.

"The possibilities of the networks motivate audio and radio artists to explore the Internet as a new space for acoustic art forms. Inspired by the concept of connectivity audio plays come into being, which invited the recipients to participate creatively. The artist's role is, to develop situations and start processes, in which the listeners can become active in an aesthetic way. Art as a fixed entity dissolves by that in a multifaceted play with constellations and communication. Audio plays in the Internet show, in which way digital networks can initiate a reorganisation of the senses and a new orientation of perceiving and understanding."

Sabine Breitsameter (Berlin)
Sabine Breitsameter is radio producer, festival curator and university lecturer. Her focus is on experimental radio, radio art and sound art and non-European cultures. As a radio producer she is - for the radio drama department of Southwestgerman Radio SWR - responsible for the webpage "Audiohyperspace", a monthly online programme, which ttraces interactive audio art in the digital networks and explains in radio programmes (on air as well as online) aesthetic and technological backgrounds. In preparation for March 2002 is an interactive radio piece and online installation by the
Japanese multimedia artist Atau Tanaka.
As curator for international festivals and symposia Sabine focuses especially on the topic of "listening" and "Acoustic Media Art". She directed the Festival "All Ear - Symposium in Listening", which took place 1997 in Kassel, parallel to the Documenta X and got a "Special Recommendation" of the international media prize "Prix Europa". She has been teaching experimental radio, radio drama and audio production at the Bauhaus-University Weimar, the Kunsthochschule Weissensee, Kunsthochschule Halle and the University of Illinois (CAVE).
In 1996 she was invited by the Goethe-Institut and had a residency as a composer in Vancouver. Numerous lectures and presentations on "Radio and acoustic art forms in the age of digital networks" brought her for example to Chicago, London, Amsterdam, Toronto, Banff, and Brighton.

Activities of Peteris Kimelis (PK) usually are described as belonging to the domain of net or cultural activism. PK continuously explores methods of intervention and independent media using soundscapes, netcasting technologies and virtual media-space as platform for his experiments and researches. His early conceptual works conceived in collaboration with electronic media laboratory E-lab include the netcast of "three frequencies" (http://ozone.re-lab.net/festival/peteris.ram), compilation !R UZ (http://ir.uz.x-i.net/) and sound sessions and maintenance of net-radio "Ozone" (http://ozone.re-lab.net) Collaborative, joint mixed media live performances and netcasting were carried out within projects "Very Hopeful" (http://very.re-lab.net/) and "Radio Kit Kat" (http://pk.re-lab.net/kit-kat). The latest being sound intervention on the board of train Riga-Ventspils made possible by use of mobile phone line, train radio, special radio program and broadcasts mix. Post production od "Radio Kit Kat" resulted in a limited edition of CD - compilation of netcast's music and soundscapes.

His recent activities have reached a field of pseudo-commercial branding and anti -consumerism campaign in project "Teashroom" http://open.x-i.net/ (with Katrina Neiburga & Open)- that took place in form of fictional give-away-shop in a city space. Paralelly PK continues to work in alternative media creating web-tv netcast sessions (http://wtv.re-lab.net http://www.beeoff.se). THE TALEST TANKER will be carried out as a live performance and netcasting session linking xxx (the nameof the town) in Germany and Karaosta in Latvia. Mix of national radio broadcasts and bilateral pop-samples will be edited and re-composed in live sound density. PK is a member (associate) of E-LAB http://re-lab.net and art managament bureau OPEN.
(Text by Mara Traumane mara@re-lab.net)

[2] image with sound - or the picture on the wall
3rd international shortfilm festival g-niale
16.08. - 19. 08. info >> info (german)

17.08. - 19.08.

installations 'between sound and image'
>> schedule !!!

thursday 16.08. | 22 h | st. jakobi

opening of the g-niale (concert and film)
the acoustic dimension of the silent movie
Steven Garling (Berlin) plays "Gold Rush" info >> info (german)

The adventure film "The Gold Rush" (1925) is one of the greatest master works of Charlie Chaplin.
Tragical and comical, anxious and grotesque, moving and amusing. Set to music and arranged by the percussionist Steven Garling (Berlin), together with the cellist Sebastian Hilken (Berlin), the actor Stefan Kaminski (Berlin) and the noise maker Chris Cutler (London).

friday 17.08. | 17 h | speicher nr. 9

film special I info >> info (german)
Home Stories – films and videos from Austria
presented by Sixpack Film (Vienna)

18 h
"Operating sound. A way to listen to avantgarde film."
The sound track of a film perforation, ink on the light track, the mechanical sound of the production process, the looped sound of an unrecorded vinyl. Shortfilms of the Austrian avantgarde.

20 h
competition programme
>> schedule !!!
3rd shortfilm festival in Stralsund.
A programme of over 250 entries. Young film art from all over the world. 3 awards of the jury. 1 audience award. Party. Music.

saturday 18.08. | 16 h | speicher nr. 9

g-niale international shortfilm festival
childrens’ shortfilm programme
Interfilm Berlin and g-niale. Entertaining and exciting for the little fans of the short film.

20 h
film special II info >> info (german)
Circles of Confusion
Introduction of the Berlin based shortfilm festival.

later
Awards
Awards. Winner films. Party.

sunday 19.08. | 18 h | garage

special programme
"zwischentöne"
>> schedule !!!

20 h
g-niale international shortfilm festival
film special III info >> info (german)
Oskar Sala and the Mixturtrautonium

Oskar Sala, composer and construtor, celebrates his 91st birthday in this coming July. World known not only through the soundtrack to Hitchcock’s "Birds" his strangly vibrating sound sceneries are unique in the history of film music.

1 "Oskar Sala – The Past Future of Sound"
a film by Oliver Rauch and Ingo Rudloff (Upstart Filmproduction)
Documentation about the master of the Mixturtrautonium.

2 shortfilms set to music by Oskar Sala

monday 20.08. | 20 h | garage

workshop/project
schleuse.de info >> info (german)
Introduction of the Berlin based net/cultural platform.

thursday 23.08. | 20 h | st. jakobi

"Abracadabra" - eine Esopathie in circulo artis.
Guy Bettini with Natalie Peters, Ute Mayer and Kaska Haaß (Berlin)

[3] sound and image - or the image within space
From monomedia to multimedia
24.08. - 26.08. info >> info (german)

friday 24.08. | 21 h | garage

Institut für Feinmotorik (Cologne) - live - record - remixes

Institut Für Feinmotorik (= institute for precision motoricity) is a project which is interested in the complex relationship between the perception of micro-phenomenons in acoustic and visual spheres and the precisioned stumbling through micro-social behaviour in daily situations. Their method is "to make almost nothing from almost nothing."
An issue they are interested in is the acoustic sphere beyond usual gain signals. The setup consists of six to eight "empty" record players, which means that no gain signals but the empty or manipulated lock grooves or the paper labels of the records are played. Beside that they found some other ways to generate acoustic signals out of empty record players: household-rubberbands, adhesive tape and tooth brushes are just a few instruments used to produce different sounds. The acoustic phenomenon they're confronted with while working with disturbance acoustic signals is white noise, which replaces "information" with entropy; but if noise is used in an acoustic arrangement, it becomes "information" itself.

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Farmers Manual (mego/Vienna)

the basic strategy: total automation vs. human interaction.
during the performance we seek to shift the local atmosphere from dissolution and clumsiness through manual change and ecstatic fiddling into an imaginative state of complex monotony, structured calm and chill, or endless associative babbling. so that towards the end the authors become the audience and the audience can be confronted with a stage populated by machines only which cant get out of infinitely rendering a stream of slight semantic madness. the setup then is what is normally considered a sort of installation. all this with the help of extreme frequencies and distorted, digital generated, flickering images.

unconsciously founded 94 – vienna. officially constituated 95. founding members: mathias gmachl, stefan possert, oswald berthold, gert brantner plus various occasional temporary external virtual contributors. momentarily: Farmers Manual present their esoteric exercises in mobile computing. In addition to performing lots of buzzing, cracking and beeping sounds that come along with blocky, non-anti-aliased, flickering images, they put out lots of buzzing, cracking and beeping sounds on CD, which may also contain lumps of computer readable data.

saturday 25.08. | 21 h | speicher nr. 9

staalplaat soundsystem presents
Lebendiges Blau

a dynamic radio play named Lebendiges Blau will be developed for the festival in Stralsund. It will be an adaption of the film Blue by Derek Jarman. Lebendiges Blau will be a hybrid between live show, installation and radio play. It will focus on the main theme of Blue, that is slowly losing sight, resulting in just a blue light.

This adaptation will use the German dubbed soundtrack as a primary thread for the public. Live and installation elements will be added, playing with different senses or mental sensations such as smell, disorientation and even physical experiences. For this, light, physical objects and moving sound systems will be created, for example ghetto blasters mounted on tricycles that children will be driving through the audience, fm transmitters will ensure a controlled sound. This will be a work in progress; therefore changes can and will be taken during the construction.
staalplaat soundsystem is Rashad Becker, Carlo Crovato & Geert-Jan Hobijn

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installation/performance
the sound pit - Carlo Crovato info >> info (german)
interactive sound installation
Space becomes an instrument, body movements of the visitors control samples and light via different sensors.

sunday 26.08. | 21 h |

from scratch #3: amplified body
Snjezana Premus und Ignaz Schick (Slovenia/Berlin) in cooperation with PTL Ljubljana

"from scratch" is a series of works initiated by Snjezana Premus with the concept of bringing together artists from different fields. The theme of this work is the investigation of the body and sound and how they relate to each other.

In a phase of extensive improvisation the authors are experimenting and searching for possible links of movement and sound. The main tool is a portable microphone which was used to directly transmit movements into sounds and noises. The microphone is fixed on the body in different positions with the result that every movement and even breathing will create crispy percussive noises. Then a specific catalogue of movements is created to trigger different rhythms and musical figures. The sounds are directly derived out of the movement, sampled, slightly manipulated and played back immediately. Like this a complex dialogue between the performers and at the same time between the different media dance and music is created. From this starting point both movements and sounds are gradually composed into more and more complex and virtuoso parts. The authors challange themselves to find a movement language as well as musical material that are on the edge between abstraction and expression and with which they can create scenes which lead to surprinsingly emotional and strong atmospheric moments.

[c] conclusion weekend
30.08. - 01.09.

thursday 30.08. | 21 h | garage

Puppetmastaz (Berlin) info >> info (german)
"Wu Tang Clan of the stiff-animal-cosm" (taz hamburg, 16 December 2000)
The toughest puppets in the world come to Stralsund and rock the house.

friday 31.08. | 21 h | garage

Raz Ohara + Hybrid (Berlin) info >> info (german)
Raz = modern funky clear cool - most sexy grooving r&b
Hybrid = nice elektronik duo

saturday 01.09. | 21 h | garage

Barbara Morgenstern (Berlin) info >> info (german)

[o] opening
       04.08. - 08.08.
[1] sound w/o image
       09.08. - 12.08
[2] image with sound
       16.08. - 19.08
[3] sound and image
       24.08. - 26.08.
[c] conclusion
       31.08. - 01.09.
bittenichtumbrechene