23rd meeting, Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

MoKS presents:
helikoosolek:tartu
with Sergei Kleyn
Wednesday, April 25th
6-8pm
Eesti Rahva Muuseum, Tartu

Since 2003 Sergei Kleyn, a poet/writer/performer/composer from Odessa, Ukraine, has been the driving force behind the international community of musicians known as Ukr.tele.kom. The main issues on their agenda have been: sound exchange via various mediums (internet, snail-mail, "gypsy mail"), composing pieces together as well as improvising spontaneously in different locations all over Europe. This network consists of over 70 musicians/improvisers worldwide and has released records via net-labels and samizdat labels, including their own SAMOPAL RECORDS. Additionally, various line-ups have toured in Germany, France and Croatia extensively since 2004. Much of the network's activity has also happened in Ukraine - mainly Odessa and Kiev.

Another important part of Ukr.tele.com, dubbed "m'lah (messenger)" has been giving the voice to people otherwise not identified as musicians and to sounds they make. Included in this company have been homeless children from Ukrainian shelters, strret singers, town madmen, marketplace drunkards etc. These recordings have been featured in concerts as samples on also have appeared on records by UTK. But most importantly, this underlines the point that YOU ARE Ukr.tele.kom.

In his workshop on the 25th of April, issues on the agenda will be: using studio as means of composition/improvisation; echo; creation of ambiences; natural acoustic environments; freeware as tools to aid sound/art; and various others.

Be prepared to take part in collective composition/improv, because, after all, YOU ARE Ukr.tele.kom if you are there. Period.

Some links:
www.soundcloud.com/ukr-te
www.soundcloud.com/graveyardshift-1
www.youtube.com/ukrtelekom
www.last.fm/music/Ukr.Tele.Kom

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 by MoKS and supported by Eesti Rahva Muuseum.

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

22nd meeting, Wednesday, March 28th, 2012

MoKS presents:
helikoosolek:tartu
with Pavel Kadõkov
Wednesday, March 28th
6-8pm
Eesti Rahva Muuseum, Tartu

For the 22nd edition of helikoosolek:tartu our guest will be Tartu resident Pavel Kadõkov. Pavel has a special interest in psychology, and will talk about how different sounds and music can influence the human psyche and physiology. We will listen to several recorded examples, and perform several practical experiments together. Participants will experience personally how certain sounds and music can evoke similar images for different people.

We will also discuss the potentially hypnotic influence of sound, for example sound in advertisement, meditative and therapeutic music, mystical practice, or music as a physiological and visual experience. In practice we will explore how it is possible to restore or mobilise psychic and emotional resources with the help of different meditative exercises and music. We will learn to choose music that will evoke and amplify desired psychic and emotional states. This can be very useful for those who want to learn to motivate themselves, restore energy, or maintain emotional capacity.

Pavel Kadõkov is blind, and for him sound is the main source of information. He is a sound recordist, and has a deep interest in the influence of sound on human emotion and behaviour. Having practiced several forms of meditation, he has observed and documented certain connections between sound and psychic states.

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 by MoKS and supported by Eesti Rahva
Muuseum.

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

21st meeting, Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

MoKS presents:
helikoosolek:tartu
with Vahram Muradyan
Wednesday, February 29th
6-8pm
Eesti Rahva Muuseum, Tartu

This month we receive a visit from Tartu-resident Vahram Muradyan. In his own words:

WHO:

Muradyan (aka vahrammuradyan) is a multi-instrumental experimental vocal artist. He was born in 1983 in Armenia. After graduating from secondary piano school at the Yerevan State Conservatory he started making goa-trance music on four-track recorders. After a couple of airings on a local radio station and in clubs he quit and continued improvising on piano, waiting for better software to come.

In 2004-2007 Muradyan went on recording and mixing beats and acoustic noises on a low-fi recorder, adding electronic sounds and eventually collected them as the Heart Cocktail album to conclude that period.

Songs About The Sona San appeared shortly after in 2008.

Muradyan’s next album Cutcult (Raw Cut)(2009) reveals his old interest in hip-hop: “collages mixed of different samples from different times and genres exhaling crunchy rhythmic hip hop sound”, as is written on his website. The album was released as 50 hand-made signed copies.

The newest album Lepiku Cradles Live is a collection of best tracks played live in audio/visual performances called “Cradles”. This was a collaboration with VJ Sveta Bogomolova.

Now he's working on a series of vocal compositions recorded in one take using loops and various self-developed multilayer techniques. First track of the series is called "Things Adi found in a drawer of an abandoned hotel room" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaM8pgdSMZc )

To download music please visit : http://www.vahrammuradyan.com/music

Everything else : http://www.facebook.com/fb.vahrammuradyan

WHAT:

Group performance/workshop/opwork "Seven letter rich language".

WHY:

http://www.istockphoto.com/search/text/Singing/source/basic#1affe05d

TOOLS TO BRING:

1) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Gray956.png
2) http://www.fpnotebook.com/_media/entEarTympanicMembraneGrayBB909.gif
3) A bottle of mineral water

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 by MoKS and supported by Eesti Rahva Muuseum.

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

20th meeting, Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

MoKS presents:
helikoosolek:tartu
with Evelyn Müürsepp & John Grzinich
Wednesday, January 25th
6-8pm

Eesti Rahva Muuseum, Tartu

For this Helikoosolek Evelyn Müürsepp & John Grzinich will lead a workshop and presentation based on the idea of "Sonic Traces", how physical processes not only leave marks but also reveal something in the sounds they make. The focus will be on sound and drawing, looking at the idea of "translation" from one medium to another. Evelyn and John will lead some simple exercises to illustrate their ideas and talk about and play pieces from their collaborative sound and drawing project "Sonic Scratch Cycles", which will be shown at the NAPP exhibition in Pärnu in February. The project is based on an ongoing series of site-specific sound and drawing actions recorded in different locations. No experience is necessary. All are welcome.

Evelyn Müürsepp is a mixed media artist and cultural coordinator, based in Southeast Estonia. Since 2001 she has worked as an artist organizer, coordinating activities for MoKS - a non-profit residency center and project space. This ongoing life-university has offered her the opportunity to learn from artists from all over the world and develop fruitful collaborations in various media. Her recent interest and ongoing work is with drawing where she explores how the repetitive movement of a pen/pencil affects the body and its motion. This surface-body-surface feedback is a generative method to shift from abstraction to figural imagery.

http://maaheli.ee/eku

John Grzinich has been conducting his own forms of sound research for over 15 years, including field recording, kinetic sculptures, electro acoustic composition, performance, group workshops and exercises in listening.

http://maaheli.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 by MoKS and supported by Eesti Rahva
Muuseum.

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

19th meeting, Wednesday, November 30th

MoKS presents:
helikoosolek:tartu
with Rauno Kalda
Wednesday, November 30th
6-8pm
Eesti Rahva Muuseum, Tartu





Rauno Kalda, one of Estonia's very few experts in bats and echolocation, will be our guest at the
next helikoosolek. Rauno is a master's student in biology at the University of Tartu, and has been working extensively with bats for the past five years. Much of his work is comprised of recording and analyzing the sounds they produce.

Rauno will explain echolocation and how it is used by bats to sense their surroundings and orient themselves within it. Bat sonar can tell us a lot about a specific species' place of habitation and ecological niche. Together we will try to catch a glimpse of the deceptively soundless world of bats, in order to realise that their world is full of sounds that we can't hear. We will also examine the equipment and devices that are used to study this sonic world, as well as watch and listen to many recorded examples.

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

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