In "Klang und Raum" on FM 674, Julia Bünnagel performs sound improvisations with processed records. The visual artist and turntablist creates structural compositions in which she condenses macroscopic textures into soundscapes and develops expansive states of noise and beats. 
Excerpt approx.15 minutes

In “Klang und Raum" auf FM 674 performt Julia Bünnagel Klangimprovistionen mit bearbeiteten Schallplatten. Die bildende Künstlerin und Turntabelistin erzeugt strukturelle Kompositionen, in denen sie makroskopischen Texturen zu Tonlandschaften verdichtet und expansive Zustände von Lärm und Beats entwickelt. 
Ausschnitt ca.15 Minuten

Excerpt Sculpting Sound FM674 Klang und Raum

Live set exclusively with modified records which produce the sounds. The modified records with sawed, painted or pasted surfaces mixed together to driving rhythmic soundscapes. The turntable becomes a musical instrument.

The performance took place in Julia´s exhibition "Around the day in 80 worlds" in the Artothek in Cologne.

Geometric Disco Excerpt Live 4 2015 Julia Bünnagel.WAV

Music of the Spheres was created for a sound installation by the sculptor and sound performer Julia Bünnagel. The sound was part of the exhibition "Esplendor Geometrico" at the gallery Rupert Pfab in Düsseldorf in 2015. The sound was played trough self-built polyhedron speakers. It sounded trough hanging and rotating splendiferous geometries and record art objects.

Music of the Spheres

Neon Noise is an audiovisual installation by Julia Bünnagel. The work was originally created for the "sightfenster" in Cologne and is now shown by the Kunstverein Bochum in a new version on the facade of the house of the Kortum-Gesellschaft in Bochum. In the floor-to-ceiling window in the entrance area of the listed building, the word NOISE appears, formed from hundreds of neon-green QR codes. The audio file is played via the QR codes. 

Exhibition: 2022

House of the Kortum Society, Bergstr. 68a, 44791 Bochum, Germany.
A project of the Kunstverein Bochum in cooperation with the
with the BoBiennale and the Kortum-Gesellschaft Bochum
Curated by Reinhard Buskies

Neon Noise is visible all day and audible via the QR scanner.

www.juliabuennagel.de
www.kunstverein-bochum.de

Neon Noise

Excerpt of the soundinstallation RAW at Kunstverein Leverkusen Castle Morsboich.

"The entrance to the actual exhibition space is blocked by a sound wall set up frontally, requiring entry from the side. Four further black acoustic wall modules, three of them reinforced in their martial effect by pyramid foam, have been set up in such a way that they virtually force the visitor into the middle of the room. As if into an arena. Standing there, one finds oneself surrounded by Julia Bünnagel's sound composition*, by the fragments of alienated marching music, by rumbling and hissing, the sound of marching that echoes through the room. Because through these baffles, which, unlike normal loudspeakers, do not send the sound in one direction but release it into the entire room, it can unfold its ultimately manipulative power here in a very intense way. Sound is an extremely subtle instrument of power - like language, like a message repeated over and over again. The sound installation with the title RAW, in German roh, results in WAR when read backwards. "

Ausschnitt aus der Soundinstallation RAW im Kunstverein Leverkusen Schloss Morsbroich.

"Der Eingang in den eigentlichen Ausstellungsraum ist geblockt von einer frontal aufgestellten Schallwand, die ein seitliches Betreten erfordert. Vier weitere schwarze, akustische Wandmodule, drei davon durch Pyramidenschaumstoff in ihrer martialischen Wirkung noch verstärkt, sind so aufgestellt worden, dass sie den Besucher geradezu in die Mitte des Raumes zwingen. Wie in eine Arena. Dort stehend, findet man sich umschlossen von Julia Bünnagels Klangkompostion*, von den Fragmenten einer verfremdeten Marschmusik, von Grollen und Rauschen, dem Sound von Marschieren, der durch den Raum hallt. Denn durch diese Schallwände, die, anders als normale Lautsprecher, den Ton nicht in eine Richtung schicken sondern ihn in den gesamten Raum entlassen, kann dieser hier auf eine sehr intensive Weise seine letztlich auch manipulative Macht entfalten. Sound ist ein äußerst subtiles Machtinstrumentarium – wie auch Sprache, wie auch eine immer aufs Neue wiederholte Nachricht. Die Soundinstallation mit dem Titel RAW, auf Deutsch roh, ergibt rückwärts gelesen WAR. "

RAW (excerpt)

Julia Bünnagel is a contemporary sound and sculpting artist based Cologne. Working with sound performance and art installation. Julia's live performance primarily refers to the modified vinyl records which produces extraordinary sounds. Julia's peculiar method of modifying vinyl records includes the various ways of physical treatment such as sewing, painting or pasting the vinyl surfaces and afterwards mixing them together for yielding an imprudently driving, rhythmic soundscapes following by the white noise, multiple fragments of music along with dirty boom beats and eventually Julia magically converts an ordinary turntable into the unexpectedly bizarre musical instrument.

Julia is part of the sound-art-collective Sculptress of Sound and Berg Bünnagel Lautermann..

JULIA BÜNNAGEL

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