Live Recording, Solo improvisation Electronic Guitar, (e-guitar, PD processing)

Sicher

guitar and electronics solo at semperdepot vienna, ca. 1995, Epiphone Sorrento, Shadow Midi Converter, Yamaha TX16W, Digitech Studio Quad

Semperdepot live

Green Atrium of the City is a sonic exploration of an abandoned space in the middle of the city, where a green landscape is growing. A soundwalk combining art and architecture draws inspiration from a historic building designed by Jože Plečnik, begun in 1925, weaving memories of the past into the present. The Central Stadium in Bežigrad has been closed to the public since 2008. Once a public space, it is now falling into disrepair, its significance increasingly waning. Through sonority and historicization, we want to bring the inhabitants and visitors of Ljubljana closer to the degraded space of the stadium, which has been distorted from different angles by the decay of time. In its silent decay, the stadium is suspended in a timeless void, inviting ideas for its revival. Echoes of falling debris, sticks, branches, and glass scratch the texture of the air, reminding us of a once vibrant place.

Conceptual design, field recording and composition: Nika van Berkel, Karmen Ponikvar
Theoretical text: Miloš Kosec
Accompanying words in the soundwalk: Zala Velkavrh, Karmen Stariha
Voice interpretation: Nataša Živkovič
Special thanks: Irena Pivka, Brane Zorman
Production: Cona, 2024
Coproduction of premiere event: Museum of Architecture and Design

The production was co-financed by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the City Municipality of Ljubljana, Department of Culture.

https://www.steklenik.si/en/nika-van-berkel-karmen-ponikvar-green-atrium-of-the-city/

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Zeleni atrij mesta je zvočna raziskava zapuščenega prostora sredi mesta, kjer se razrašča zelena krajina. Združuje umetnost in arhitekturo in črpa navdih iz zgodovinske zgradbe, ki so jo po zasnovi Jožeta Plečnika začeli graditi leta 1925. Poigrava se s spomini na preteklost in jih vpleta v sedanji čas. Centralni stadion za Bežigradom je za javnost zaprt že od leta 2008. Namesto da bi prostor namenili javnosti, stadion propada, njegov pomen pa se vse bolj izgublja. Preko zvočnosti in zgodovinjenja želiva tako prebivalcem kot obiskovalcem Ljubljane približati degradirani prostor stadiona, ki ga je razpadajoči čas izkrivil pod različnimi koti. Stadion v svojem tihem propadanju visi v brezčasni praznini in vzbuja ideje o njegovem oživljanju. Odmevi drobcev ruševin, palic, vej in stekla praskajo po teksturi zraka in opominjajo na nekoč aktiven prostor.

Idejna zasnova, terensko snemanje in kompozicija: Nika van Berkel, Karmen Ponikvar
Teoretično besedilo: Miloš Kosec
Spremljajoča beseda v zvočnem sprehodu: Zala Velkavrh, Karmen Stariha
Glasovna interpretacija: Nataša Živkovič
Posebne zahvale: Irena Pivka, Brane Zorman
Produkcja: Cona, 2024
Koprodukcija premiere: Muzej za arhitekturo in oblikovanje

Produkcijo sta sofinanricala Ministrstvo za kulturo Republike Slovenije in Mestna občina Ljubljana, Oddelek za kulturo.

https://www.steklenik.si/nika-van-berkel-karmen-ponikvar-zeleni-atrij-mesta/

Nika van Berkel, Karmen Ponikvar: Zeleni atrij mesta / Green Atrium of the City

As certain spaces and times have become oversaturated due to urbanisation and the population explosion, certain (animal) species have began withdrawing to unpopulated landscapes and unoccupied times – into the night. We understand these withdrawals as a search for solutions that could lead to a ‘better quality of life’, an existence that would be better than the one offered to us by the oversaturated space-time.

Premiere sound art work curated and commissioned by CONA Institute for radioCona:wolFMoon FM exhibition, January 2017.

Mentored and coached by: Elena Biserna and Brane Zorman

More about radioCona:wolFMoon: https://goo.gl/UvJpy7
Produced by CONA, 2017
http://www.cona.si/

Brane Zorman: It’s in my Nature

Bostjan Perovšek - Bugs, A Walrus And A Door - Trento 16 (live Electronics)

Published on SoundCloud by artists permission

Bandcamp: https://bostjanperovsek.bandcamp.com/album/bugs-a-walrus-and-a-door-trento-16-live-electronics
Bostjan Perovšek: http://www.perovsek.si/

The composition based on the original song “Bugs, a walrus and a door start dancing” (30 minutes, 8 channel version, 1986), uses sound material created by bugs, a walrus and a door at the Vodnik Homestead in Ljubljana before it was oiled. Prof. Matija Gogala “equipped” me with an array of magnetic tapes with different tunes. These tapes consisted of approx. 80 hours of material, from which I took roughly 20 different length samples - ranging from a few seconds to half a minute. Once they were classified and listened to, the sounds of the walrus and the door were added. 

I classified this piece of music as a bioacoustic piece, although it could easily be considered electroacoustic. However, since I want to remain consistent to the original idea, I insist on this definition. The composition is not called bioacoustic due to the fashionable bio trends, but rather because it is founded on sound materials obtained from scientists who investigate animal sounds. This scientific discipline is called bioacoustics. The credits go to the included voluntary live performance in 1986 (by the members of the experimental music group SAETA) and involuntary performers (animals) – a result of being consistent in defining the project’s starting points and the music itself. The short stereo version of the composition, which can be found on the CD “Boštjan Perovšek – Touchings”, and on the vinyl LP “Bio, Industrial Acoustica (green)” was also included in the Ars Acoustica 1995-1996 Listening Proposals program within the frame of the European Broadcasting Union. 

The composition “Bugs, a walrus and door - Trento 16 (live)” is a special version based on the 30 minute original version. It can be realized as a 15 - 20 minutes long quadrophonic or stereo version, in which original samples are mixed in a new way and in new combinations. This version also includes a new soloist: a bug “Legnotus Limbosus”. First performance was during “1st International Symposium on Biotremology", Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige, Italy, July 2016. 

released August 10, 2016

Bostjan Perovšek - Bugs, A Walrus And A Door - Trento 16 (live Electronics)

Create your own story / Follow your feelings / Feel the sensations / just Be

Amaranthine, Petra Strahovnik

Audiopiece produced for Deutschlandfunkkultur in April 2020 during the Corona-crisis. The listeners are asked to step in front of a mirror - then a choir of voices, which people from all over the world contributed, describes the reflection, always starting with the sentence: "I see someone, who...". 
With contributions by: Daniel Bernhard Cremer, Stephan A. Shtereff, Tatsuki Hayashi, Andreas Stuhlmann, Kristin Westphal, Marleen Wolter, Hannah Schassnerius, Brane Zorman, Philipp Hartmann, Dani Brown, Friedrich Tietjen, Basak Senova, Bernadette Hengst, Ralf Homann, Ariel Dávila, Akira Takayama, Ilona Sauer, Claudia Bosse, Mariola Brillowska, Natalia Romik, Martina Angelotti. 
Narrator: Christiane Nothofer. 
A production by LIGNA. 
Ligna.org
blogspot.ligna.com

LIGNA_Spiegelstimmen_lang

Bojana Kunst: Rastline in umetniške institucije: domneva o skupnem
predavanje
Galerija Steklenik, Ljubljana, 5. september 2019, ob 19:00

Kako je mogoče misliti rastlinsko življenje v navezavi na institucionalno življenje? Zdi se namreč, da ti dve obliki bivanja ne bi mogli biti bolj različni, ena rastlinska, druga družbena, pa vendar imata več skupnega, kot se zdi na prvi pogled. V predavanju bi rada pokazala, kako se mnoga umetniška dela in to kako so narejena, navezujejo na življenje rastlin in s tem odprejo institucionalno imaginacijo za nove načine sobivanja. Prisotnost rastlinskega življenja lahko spremeni celoten institucionalni značaj umetniških del in vpliva na to, da naša prisotnost ob umetniških delih dobi nekaj skupnega tudi s svetom okrog njih. Predstavila bom umetniške eksperimente, raziskave, še posebej pa gledališka dela, ki ne ločujejo med različnimi oblikami življenja in tako spreminjajo tudi načine naše udeleženosti v njih.

povezava: 
http://www.steklenik.si/bojana-kunst-rastline-in-umetniske-institucije-domneva-o-skupnem/2

Nika van Berkel, Karmen Ponikvar: Zeleni atrij mesta / Green Atrium of the City

CONA zavod / institute

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