18th meeting, Wednesday, October 26th

MoKS presents:
helikoosolek:tartu
with Marja-Liisa Plats and Patrick McGinley
Wednesday, October 26th
6-8pm
Eesti Rahva Muuseum, Tartu

Marja-Liisa Plats and Patrick McGinley will present their project 'revenant:paiva', made in collaboration with the Portuguese artists Luis Costa and Tiago Carvalho in November 2010. The project took place in northeast Portugal along the Paiva River as part of the Paivascapes Festival at Binaural Media in the small village of Nodar. Under the umbrella of the wider 'revenant:sound' project, it deals with site-specific performative sound actions recorded in locations along the river and presented as 5 short films. The artists will screen the films, discuss both the Paiva and general revenant projects, and will also present some other 'revenant:sound' works featuring other artists.

'revenant:sound' is an ongoing project with open membership that focuses on site-specific acoustic actions; each is a document of a specific moment in time in a specific location. The name derives from a concept of spatial memory, or, more specifically, of the long-term gestural memory of space; the ability of a location to retain an imprint or trace of activity or energy that has been present therein.

Patrick McGinley is a member of MoKS, and is the host and main organiser of helikoosolek:tartu. He is a sound, radio and performance artist who has worked extensively in Estonia since 2005. He is the founder of Framework Radio, which has been on the air in several countries since 2002. He works with field recording and attempts to integrate and resonate found sounds, found objects, specific spaces, and moments in time, in order to create a direct and visceral link with an audience and location.

Marja-Liisa Plats graduated from Tartu Art College in photography and works as an illustrator. She has participated in group exhibitions in Estonia and in Portugal. Her first personal exhibition, with Anna Hints, showed in 2010. From 2008 to 2010 she sang in the vocal group Vaikuse Koosolek, and experimental voice remains one of her main interests. She has been reading children’s books already from an early age.

further info:
http://www.revenantsound.net
http://www.binauralmedia.org
http://www.murmerings.com
http://www.frameworkradio.net
http://liiso.planet.ee

helikoosolek:tartu is a regular gathering for the exploration of sound in all forms.  The meetings comprise presentations, concerts, workshops, discussions, and field trips pertaining to sound and its consideration in art, music, architecture, ecology, philosophy, social and cultural interaction, and any other context that presents itself. Participants are encouraged to propose activities or discussions on topics of their interest, or to present projects of their own for feedback.  Sessions take place on the last Wednesday of each month, from 6-8pm at the Eesti Rahva Muuseum.

helikoosolek:tartu is organised my MoKS and supported by Eesti Rahva
Muuseum and Tartu Kultuurkapital.

http://helikoosolek.blogspot.com
http://www.moks.ee
http://www.erm.ee

17th meeting, Wednesday, September 28th

MoKS presents:
helikoosolek:tartu
with William Bilwa Costa and Kristin Orav
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
6-8pm
Eesti Rahva Muuseum, Tartu

| resonance | sound, space + time
improvisation workshop for movement + sound
co-lead by William Bilwa Costa (sound) and Kristin Orav (movement)

| resonance | is based on practices that enable heightened states of sensory perception. The workshop shares methods for reverberating mindfully with other artists during duet and ensemble improvisation. We will focus on listening, sensing, and acting from sound, movement, and memory impulses. We will explore expansions and contractions of energy and sound in our bodies and in the space. We will trace the pathways that movement material takes between outside and inside: input - filtering - output - sending. Rather than reacting to other bodies, we will cultivate a stance that allows us to observe, consider, and respond with as much of our selves as possible.

The group will explore questions like: How do we transmit messages that perpetuate in different forms through the space instead of dying out? How do we translate or morph messages into different media like writing, drawing, or assessing? How can we use vibration, reflection, sounding, panning, resounding, writing, and remembering to create a resonating body?

Please bring a notebook and pen.
Please wear loose-fitting, comfortable clothes.
Please feel free to bring your own instruments/sound equipment. Set ups should be acoustic or self sufficient, so please bring small personal speakers or small practice amp.

William Bilwa Costa is a sound and visual artist/electronic musician/improviser. He has worked with movement artist Emily Sweeney as perpetual movement sound since 2006. He currently works internationally, generating research/ lab/ performance projects, actively cultivating opportunities for artists to work together on new interdisciplinary explorations. Bilwa works in both the performing and visual arts contexts. His electronic music and sound art often involve the abstraction of source material such as dancers’ breath and body sounds, acoustic musicians, and audio frequency feedback—sonic relics through which he pulls elements of specific spaces, times, and interactions into his work. He is interested in sensory perception and subjectivity, and his work documents those acts of decipherment. He often uses multiple speakers placed throughout a space, generating a sensory environment rich in ambient, rhythmic, and spatial sound.

Kristino Rav is a performance artist whose creation could be described as pushing her body to the extremes. Thus, the intersection of completed projects contains an element of tiredness together with physical, mental and temporal endurance. She draws inspiration from movements, silence, coincidences, as well as from the tension that lies between public and private spaces, being lately interested in the phenomenon of dance in this context. She has finished the Estonian Academy of Arts in sculpture and The university of Tartu in semiotics.

http://perpetualmvmtsnd.org/bilwa/
http://kristino-rav.blogspot.com/

helikoosolek:tartu is a regular gathering for the exploration of sound in all forms.  The meetings comprise presentations, concerts, workshops, discussions, and field trips pertaining to sound and its consideration in art, music, architecture, ecology, philosophy, social and cultural interaction, and any other context that presents itself. Participants are encouraged to propose activities or discussions on topics of their interest, or to present projects of their own for feedback.  Sessions take place on the last Wednesday of each month, from 6-8pm at the Eesti Rahva Muuseum.

helikoosolek:tartu is organised my MoKS and supported by Eesti Rahva
Muuseum.

http://helikoosolek.blogspot.com
http://www.moks.ee
http://www.erm.ee

august break

we're taking a summer break this month, but we'll be back in september with a visit from william bilwa costa:

http://perpetualmvmtsnd.org

more soon!

tomorrow's van location!

we have chosen a location for tmorrow's action: the Urban Audio van will be at the main pedestrian crossing on Riia at the corner of Aleksandri, from 1pm to 4pm, wednesday, july 27th. there will be chairs and headphones and pleasant company. come and join us!

16th meeting, Wednesday, July 27th

MoKS presents:
helikoosolek:tartu
with Florian Tuercke
Wednesday, July 27th

* ALL DAY action at a location in the city to-be-announced *
* EVENING presentation from 6-8pm at Eesti Rahva Muuseum *

!!! The URBAN AUDIO van will be set up to receive visitors throughout the day on July 27th, at a location in central Tartu to-be-announced by the evening of July 26th on the helikoosolek blog, facebook page, and mailing list. !!!

Florian Tuercke will introduce URBAN AUDIO, a project that he has worked on for 6 years now. With URBAN AUDIO he transforms the noise of public space to musical abstractions. Special instruments are temporarily placed in urban situations and transform any ambient sounds to musical tones. The acoustical structure of each situation is the compositional basis for the music that is extracted from urban space. The result mirrors the urban environment as musical abstraction.

more information and recent projects on: www.urban-audio.org

In Tartu, Florian Tuercke will record musical abstractions during the day (places and time to be announced on the helikoosolek:tartu-blog) and present the instruments and the recordings in the evening.

Florian Tuercke (born 1977) lives and works in Nuernberg (Germany). He has performed this project in Budapest, Zurich, 27 Cities in the USA, 17 German cities and recently in Turku and Tallinn.

helikoosolek:tartu is a regular gathering for the exploration of sound in all forms.  The meetings comprise presentations, concerts, workshops, discussions, and field trips pertaining to sound and its consideration in art, music, architecture, ecology, philosophy, social and cultural interaction, and any other context that presents itself. Participants are encouraged to propose activities or discussions on topics of their interest, or to present projects of their own for feedback.  Sessions take place on the last Wednesday of each month, from 6-8pm at the Eesti Rahva Muuseum.

helikoosolek:tartu is organised my MoKS and supported by Eesti Rahva Muuseum.

http://helikoosolek.blogspot.com
http://www.moks.ee
http://www.erm.ee

15th meeting, Wednesday, June 29th

MoKS presents:
helikoosolek:tartu
with Kiwa
Wednesday, June 29th
6-8pm
Eesti Rahva Muuseum, Tartu

Kiwa will introduce "metabor", a project, sound-art platform and series of events active in the period around 2001-04. "metabor" was the first Estonian sound-art and noise project/platform and series of events/temporary soundscapes in "peculiar" places (a former hospital, a steam icebreaker, the last analogue phone station, a soviet memorial etc). The aim was to bring together a few Estonian artists working with sound/silence at that time: Estonian modernism classic and kinetic art pioneer mr Kaarel Kurismaa, young noise-dj DJ Masin, avantgardist of Russian origin p0rt, low-tech experimentalist Martiini etc. "metabor" was organized by Ki wa & A nagu Alfa (A as in alfa aka Andres Lõo). In 2006 a book called *metabor. skidmark of the force before the shape* was published by Kurismaa & Ki wa as a project for the Ljubljana Print Trienniale.

Kiwa will show two movies about "metabor": Boreaalsolaarium, a documentary by Priit Pääsuke (DV, 21 min, 2005) that has never shown in public before and a VJ mix by British artist Lewis Bray.

KIWA (born 1975) – multidisciplinary artist, lives and works in Tartu and Tallinn. He actively explores and blends different media, from paintings and conceptual objects to total audiovisual environments. His artistic practices include painting, objects and sculpture, installation, video, performance, sound art, scenography, text, etc: all together functioning as a hypertextual research of meaning-making and cultural codes on different levels, collective and personal myths. KIWA is also active as a lecturer in the Estonian Academy of Arts (since 2006) and curator (since 1999), promoting interdisciplinary and research-based projects of the younger generation of Estonian artists. He initiated a series of multimedia events with a code name “Metabor” (2001–2004) and publication of an anthology of experimental literature “Kangelasema toitepiim – Tekstilääts” (Nutritive Milk of Mother Heroine – A Textual Lens, 2006). This year he also finished his first full-length documentary movie “Wariazone” (with anthropologist Terje Toomistu) about the Indonesian transgender phenomenon. He has participated in exhibitions since 1995, his last personal shows took place at Y-gallery (Tartu), Galerie Rivoli 59 (Paris) and Draakoni Gallery (Tallinn). Recent group shows and festivals include: NU Performance Festival and Kumu Art Museum (Estonia); Black Leather club and Manizales Theatre Festival (Colombia); Henie Onstad (Norway); The Kitchen, Yvon Lambert Gallery and Renaissance Society (USA); Tate Modern and Milch Gallery (UK); Stedelijk and DeAppel (Netherlands); Tseretely gallery and SKIF festival (Russia); Seccession and CAT/MAK (Austria), 1st Electronic Festival (Belorussia), Rivoli59 and Chateau de Tours (France) etc. Works in collections of Art Museum of Estonia, Tartu Art Museum, and private collections in Estonia, Europe and USA.

helikoosolek:tartu is a regular gathering for the exploration of sound in all forms.  The meetings comprise presentations, concerts, workshops, discussions, and field trips pertaining to sound and its consideration in art, music, architecture, ecology, philosophy, social and cultural interaction, and any other context that presents itself. Participants are encouraged to propose activities or discussions on topics of their interest, or to present projects of their own for feedback.  Sessions take place on the last Wednesday of each month, from 6-8pm at the Eesti Rahva Muuseum.

helikoosolek:tartu is organised my MoKS and supported by Eesti Rahva
Muuseum and Tartu Kultuurkapital.

http://helikoosolek.blogspot.com
http://www.moks.ee
http://www.erm.ee

14th meeting, Wednesday, May 25th

MoKS presents:
helikoosolek:tartu
with John W. Fail
Wednesday, May 25th
6-8pm
Eesti Rahva Muuseum, Tartu

For May's helikoosolek,"Partial musician" John W. Fail will look at the aesthetics of contemporary outsider experimental music, with a concrete bend.  Specifically, the work of one obscure axis of musicians - Graham Lambkin, The Shadow Ring, Idea Fire Company, etc. - will be listened to and discussed.  Topics will include: sound art vs. music, imagery and expression, isolation and obfuscation, and maybe if things go that way, the culture and marketing of sound.

John W. Fail (b. 1980, Pittsburgh) is an artist and organiser working in Tallinn. He has released recordings under his own name and in several group projects, working in an intersection of improvisation, modern concrète and sound art. Since 2009 he has co-facilitated Ptarmigan, a non-commercial project space in operating in Helsinki and Tallinn. He has worked professionally in the area of digital preservation and written academically on film theory and avant-garde literature. He is one organiser of the Helsinki Public School, the current facilitator of the Svamp sound improvisation workshops, and has operated the record label Cenotaph for ten years.

helikoosolek:tartu is organised my MoKS and supported by Eesti Rahva
Muuseum and Tartu Kultuurkapital.

http://helikoosolek.blogspot.com
http://www.moks.ee
http://www.erm.ee