Akusmata

KOIROHI
15.10. – 20.10.2013

Koirohi is created from sound recordings from the active nuclear power plant located in Olkiluoto, Finland. With sensitive contact microphones and accelerometers placed directly on turbines, boilers, and thousands of meters of pipes above and below the ground, vibrations from the production of nuclear power can be heard. Since all these elements vibrate at very different rates and through different materials the sounds are rich in overtones, and have an almost dreamy or unearthly quality. Akusmata gallery premieres a 4-channel realization of the work. Koirohi means wormwood in Estonian, like Chernobyl means wormwood in Ukrainian.

Jacob Kirkegaard’s (*1975, Denmark) works are focused on scientific and aesthetic aspects of sonic perception. He explores acoustic spaces and phenomena that usually remain imperceptible to the immediate ear. Kirkegaard’s installations, compositions & photographs are created from within a variety of environments such as subterranean geyser vibrations, empty rooms in Chernobyl, a rotating TV tower, and even sounds from the human inner ear itself.

Jacob Kirkegaard website

The exhibition has been arranged in cooperation with
Nordic Music Days 2013

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay

DISMANTLING A SOUND-WORK IN SIX EASY STEPS (2012)

6-channel sound installation

October 20th – November 16th

The installation explores the artistic process involved in a sound composition. Not
merely deconstructive in approach, the installation rather incorporates review and
recapitulation of the process of composing that uses field recording as a material.
The installation thus acts as a decomposition of the finished work in order to
question over-determination in the end product of sound-based artworks. Primarily
considering sound as an artistic material of essentially ephemeral in nature, the
installation examines the trajectory of phenomenological development the work
possibly has gone through. As methodology, it disengages the six primary layers of
field recording materials used in the work. In doing so, the installation involves the
audience to experience the work in a process-oriented way. The multi-level sound
projection unwraps the work into its source material of field recording disembodied
in their inability to translate actual location onto augmented space of the gallery,
thereby remaining as visceral audio layers disposed to the audience as a speculative
structure of the work. Rather than contributing to the tradition of process art, the
installation stems out of a necessity to analyze, articulate and describe a sound-based
artwork from a phenomenological angle. The artist’s current academic involvement
with sound here works as a catalyst keeping the installation in a discursive state.

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay biography

Born in Birbhum, India, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay studied Cinema specializing in Audiography at national film-school SRFTI in Calcutta (2003-2006), and later received Master of Arts in New Media with an emphasis in Sound Art from Aarhus University, Denmark (2007-2009). Since studying at film-school, he has been involved with sound composition primarily as response to the visual supremacy over predominantly artificial construction of sound in Cinema; consequently, his critical engagement with an autonomous auditory practice develops into a body of work that consists of sound-based new media artworks processed in dialectical opposition to cinematic sound. His works have been exhibited at a number of venues and performed widely. In 2007 he has collaborated with Rijksakademie network to produce an archive of urban audio imageries for a series of curated shows; being a SARAI fellow in 2006, he has worked on a sound art project presenting the outcome at CSDS, New Delhi. Between 2009-2010, he has received a generous grant from Prince Claus Fund to collect audiovisual materials for producing a large-scale sound and video installation. He is recipient of the prestigious Arts Scholarship in 2011 from Charles Wallace India Trust London. He has been short-listed in the PRIX Phonurgia Nova 2010, and awarded with an Honorary Mention in PRIX Ars Electronica 2011. Currently he is engaged with a practice-based PhD project researching on the inter-relationship and cross-influences between cinema, digital media and sound art.

budhaditya.org

In cooperation with:
Artists’ Association MUU http://www.muu.fi

Janne Särkelä
AMBIENT²
22.4.-28.4.2012, 12-14pm (each day)

In my work AMBIENT², I interpret the sound landscape of Harakka island into music, into another language through a computer-abled generative process. We are born into sound landscape to which we get used to through our lives and we take it as a familiar foundation, compared to which everything is strange and peculiar. It is about interpretation. When the same sound landscape is repeated as music something weird and unexpected is revealed.

Music created by the AMBIENT² does not strive to fit its tones into any existing note system. It re-creates the frequencies of the source material by synthetic instruments as a spectral musical application. The final result is a musical work which never quite exactly repeats itself. The composer is the observed space which creates its own tonal system. The music thus created is not aleatory but determined by its own rules.

The basic form of the music is defined by ambient aesthetics, and in this case ambient sound creates the ambient music and the borders of music and the world are seamlessly intertwined.
Janne Särkelä: www.sarana.biz

The sound exhibition is part of the La-bàs Biennale 2012 -festival: http://www.labas.fi/2012/index.html

Charlie Morrow – Harri Koskinen

SOUND GLASS SPACE
23.2.-16.3.2012

Harri Koskisen neljä lasiteosta on aktivoitu muuntimiksi Morrow True3D -äänitilaan. ///
Harri Koskinen’s four glass works are activated as transducers in a Morrow True3D sound space.

Harri Koskinen – Glass Works

1. venini gotico 2003

2. spittoon unique 1997

3. berlin blue 2002

4. venini unique 2009

Charlie Morrow – True 3D Soundscapes

1. finland arctic melts 1980

2. finland bird songs 2010

3. ssttooppeerrss watches 1969

4. featherehtaef muu-sikki 2002 and 2012

The sound is working in the glass.
The glass works are sounding in the soundscape.
The space is created by the sound.

Akusmatassa on esillä audiovisuaalinen installaatio Black Groove.

Teoksen ovat toteuttaneet äänitaiteilija Petri Kuljuntausta ja VJ:t Random Doctors ja Klaustrofobia. Teoksen lähtökohtana on kaksi harvinaista Siemensin testiäänilevyä 1930-luvulta. Kansalliskirjaston digitointiyksikössä äänitteet on digitoitu ja niiden alkuperäinen sisältö pyyhitty pois. Taustalta on nostettu esiin vanhan ja kuluneen uran häiriöäänet, napsut, ritinät ja muut virheet. Näyttelyn äänireaktiivinen videoprojisointi simuloi matkaa vinyyliurassa. Tietokone “kuuntelee” ja seuraa ääniuraa ja visualisoi häiriöäänet tilaan kolmiulotteisesti. Black Groove on esillä 17.2.2012 saakka.