// Date: 27/01/2008
// Time: 21:00
// Venue: MAO
 
For the Tuned City program, artists from across the sound-art spectrum have been invited to make their own sonic investigations, deconstructions and provocations within the architectural space of the Maria club itself, taking the audience from the quiet minimal world of found objects and sounds through to the body- and building-crushing power of subsonic rumblings.
 
// DALLAS SIMPSON [UK]
 
// BJNILSEN [SE] & HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR[IS]
 
// MATTIN [Basque Country]
 
// DANIEL MENCHE [US]
 
// MARK BAIN [NL/US]
 
The UK's Dallas Simpson will undertake a detailed and intimate binaural sonic investigation of the urban wasteland around the club, putting the audience directly inside the performer's head via wireless microphones and headsets. Swedish field-recordist BJNilsen has teamed up with Icelandic cello player Hildur Gudnadottir to explore the minute architectural and structural resonances of the viola and cello instruments, played out over a multichannel speaker setup. Basque noise-aktionist Mattin declines to state the trajectory of his performance for the evening, as this anti-laptop "Body & Linux" performer prefers the element of surprise to any other. Daniel Menche, hailing from Portland Oregon, US, similarly involves his body in the production of an overwhelming sound which seeks the limits of both physical tolerance and structural restraint. And finally, Netherlands-based US expatriate Mark Bain will demonstrate his "Vibrasonics" system, a set of subsonic devices designed to inject sound waves into the foundations of a building, challenging our notions of architectural stability and perhaps even bringing the walls crashing down upon us.
 
The Tuned Space performance program has been organized by Carsten Stabenow and Derek Holzer.