Sonic Cinema - Week #9 · Wednesday April 26

SONIC CINEMA - WEEK #9 · Wednesday, April 26 · 19:00 - 20:30 GENERAL INFORMATION Doors open at 18:50 - please make sure to arrive on time to attend the whole session Tickets on shotgun only Basement -2 35-37 Rue des Francs-Bourgeois, Paris 75004 PROGRAM SCHEDULE Wednesday, April 26 · 19:00 - 20:30 19:00 - 19:10 Monom Studios Recalibration (4DSOUND installation) 19:10 - 19:40 Stefan Maier, Deviant Chain (4DSOUND installation) 19:40 - 19:50 (10 min break) Monom Studios Recalibration (4DSOUND installation) 19:50 - 20:20 Hüma Utku, Bearers of False Gifts (4DSOUND installation) ABOUT SONIC CINEMA To visit Sonic Cinema is to enter a liminal zone - a ‘space of possibles’ where Spatial Sound fundamentally enhances and alters the ways stories are told and experienced. A pure sonic experience, set in complete darkness - the Sonic Film is a film that the audience inhabits and experiences with their whole body. Uninhibited by the visual sense with its defined boundaries, this new medium enhances one's physiological experience, vastly expanding possibilities for narrative creation and embodiment. Before each session you will be able to experience a Recalibration by Monom Studios to tune in your senses. This moment will serve to sharpen our attention and in particular our ability to listen more deeply, to listen with the whole body. For more information about Monom Studios follow them on instragram: @monomstudios and visit their website: www.monomsound.com ABOUT THE ARTISTS Hüma Utku Hailing from Istanbul, the Berlin based electronic music composer and sound artist Hüma Utku explores the possibilities of how sound textures and rhythm can be used to evoke a sense of ancient within advanced electronic music. With an overall disregard for genres she fuses field recordings, acoustic instruments, atmospheric ambience; into harmonious noise and harsh ritualistic rhythms as means to utilize sound and music as tools for storytelling. Combining her practice of music with her studies in psychology; Utku’s works draw inspiration from human condition, mysticism and folklore. In August 2018 Şeb-i Yelda (EP/12”) was released by Karlrecords, which presented Utku (as R.A.N.) with an evolved sound and strong theme to a wide audience. Following the international success of her EP, she released her debut full-length album under her own name Gnosis in July 2019 via the same label. This release gained Utku recognition for her unique approach of creating sonic story plots by merging concepts with experiments in electronic music. Her sophomore album , The Psychologist is released on Editions Mego in May 2022. This album has been cited as Utku’s most ambitious, authentic and complex work yet in which her background in psychology and her current practice as a conceptual music composer are intertwined. Since 2016, Utku has presented her work in festivals and institutions including Atonal Berlin, CTM Festival, HKW, and Radialsystem in Berlin; Salon IKSV in Istanbul, Donaufestival and Musikprotokoll in Austria, Sonic Acts and Today’s Art in Netherlands, Lunchmeat Festival in Czech Republic, Insomnia Festival in Norway and many others. Her work has received notable press from platforms such as The Wire, Noisey, RollingStone, Redbull Music, Groove Mag, Gonzo Circus, BantMag, Scene Noise among others, as well as getting broadcasted by seminal radio station and platforms such as BBC Radio 3, ORF, TRT, NTS radio, RAI 3, Resonance FM, YLE and Sveriges Radio. In 2021, Utku was selected as a SHAPE (Sound, Heterogeneous Art and Performance in Europe) artist. ----- Stefan Maier Using an AI-based speech synthesizer, Deviant Chain speculates on the inner workings of non-human intelligence underlying computationally-generated sound. This speech synthesizer is used as the basis for an imagined language: the phonetic material generated by the AI is used to construct a new phonology and notation system specific to its unruly output. The work is presented as a large-scale sound installation which centers on a through-composed composition consisting of synthetic sound generated by speech synthesizer and modular synthesis. Deviant Chain points towards a future where humans might have to grapple with non-human language and underlying forms of inhuman cognition — forms of cognition which might no longer correspond to inherited categories of human comprehension. ⁠ ⁠Deviant Chain was commissioned by the Ultima Festival, where it premiered at the Oslo Museum for Contemporary Art in 2019. ⁠ Stefan Maier is an artist based in Vancouver, Canada — the unceded, traditional territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh)Nations. Working fluidly between live electronic performance, installation, concert music, and various interdisciplinary projects, his works explore the chaotic flows of sonic matter through buildings,⁠ sound systems, instruments, software, and bodies. His work has been presented by Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Germany), INA-GRM (France), Ultima festival (Norway), SPOR festival (Denmark), Unsound Festival (Poland), Gong Tomorrow (Denmark), and Gaudeamus Muziekweek (Netherlands), among many others. His work as sound designer and film/dance composer has been presented most recently at Sterischer Herbst (Austria), International Film Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands), Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art (Netherlands), and V-A-C foundation (Russia). In 2017 he received a Mayor’s Art Award from the City of Vancouver and was a 2019 Macdowell Colony Fellow (USA). Stefan is Assistant Professor of Sound Art and Sound Design at the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. ______________________________________________ FAQ What is SPATIAL sound?⁠ Spatial sound is a term to describe the way we have evolved to perceive space through sound - it refers to the way we hear sound naturally in the world around us, in all its complexity and depth. From above, below, around us, through and within us. The perfect spatial sound experience is the one we experience every day. When we refer to spatial sound technology, this is technology that aims to recreate this effect.⁠ ______________________________________________ PLEASE NOTE We advise coming 20 prior to the start of the sessions to enjoy Monom Studios Recalibrations For a better experience we recommend having cell phones turned off as light can distract from the experience. If you need to leave the room in the middle of the session, please do so in silence. No cash accepted for the tickets, all the tickets are sold only on shotgun. Possibility to buy directly at the beginning of the event on shotgun. Spatial Sound by MONOM Studios Production: 3537 Technology: 4DSOUND Thanks to Dover Street Market Paris Visual identity by Studio Doppelgänger