Draft:Turning Sounds

• Comment: This draft does not satisfy event notability. The sources do not appear to be independent. Robert McClenon (talk) 19:06, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

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"Turning Sounds" is an aperiodic music festival (referred to as a 'Meeting') and event series, established in 2003 and organized or co-organized by the "Turning Sounds" Society since 2004 and curated or co-curated by Antoni Beksiak. The main initial premise, as conceived by Andreas Stadler, the director of Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw, the initiator of the event, was to arrange an international crossover forum (as in the name of the institution) for contemporary electronic music creation, involving conference, workshops and performances.

Installments

"Turning Sounds" DJs and Composers Meeting. International Conference and Concerts

Initiated and coordinated by Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw and co-organized and supported by a variety of cultural institutions, the Meeting took place on May 15-18, 2003 in Warsaw, Poland.

It included speeches/presentations by Zbigniew Karkowski (videolecture with Atsuko Nojiri), Yannis Kyriakides, Bernhard Lang, Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky), Susanna Niedermayr, Robin Rimbaud (Scanner), Christian Scheib, Andreas Stadler, Burkhard Stangl, Jacek Staniszewski, Krzysztof Szlifirski, and Jacek Zychowicz.

Performances included: Bogusz Jr., DJ Spooky, Scanner/Piernik/Górczyński ("Warsaw Autumn"'s contribution), and as the incorporated alt+f4 festival, curated by Kamil Antosiewicz: Efzeg, Facial Index, Fennesz, LaLeLoo, Mem/Wolfram, Pita, Spear, Staniszewski/Piotrowicz/Viön, and Viön & Mem.

Workshops were led by dieb13, Fennesz, and DJ Spooky.

"Turning Sounds 2" International Meeting

With Polish Section of the ISCM as a main co-organizer, the Meeting took place on May 13-16, 2004 in Warsaw.

Lectures/presentations: Antoni Beksiak, Bartek Chaciński and Jacek Skolimowski, Udo Dahmen, Huib Emmer, Christian Höller, Elise Kermani, Bernhard Lang, Peter Rantaša, Robert Rutkai, Borut Savski.

Performances: Białystok PO conducted by Franck Ollu with dieb13 and Wolfgang Fuchs, Erik M, Klaus Filip, Vytautas V. Jurgutis, Sławomir Kupczak, Patrick Pulsinger, DJ Rafik and DJ Kid Fresh, Burkhard Stangl Hannes Löschel Strings Duo, Transemble with Jan Duszyński and Michał Górczyński

Workshops: Mira Calix, dieb13, Erik M, Klaus Filip, Elise Kermani, Patrick Pulsinger, DJ Rafik and DJ Kid Fresh, Borut Savski

"Turning Sounds 3" International Meeting

Since 2005 the organization and coordination duties switched to the "Turning Sounds" Society, established in 2004. The Meeting was affixed to the 48th "Warsaw Autumn" Festival.

The two Robin Minard's sound installations featured introduced Peter Ablinger as curator-consultant, and became a de facto prelude to the "Turning Sounds 6" Meeting, devoted to sound art in city spaces (2008-).

Lectures/presentations: Creative Commons Polska, Robin Minard, Johannes S. Sistermanns.

Sound installations: Silent Music and Brunnen by Robin Minard at the Warsaw University Library, 19.1 Rion Ma by Johannes S. Sistermanns at "Zachęta".

Performances: Hervé Boghossian, Arturas Bumšteinas, dis.playce, emiter.arszyn.emiszyn, Los Glissandinos, Antanas Jasenka, DJ Olive (also with Djazzpora), Gert-Jan Prins, Pure, Johannes S. Sistermanns with DJ Lenar, Manon-Liu Winter, Wolfram.

Workshops: Robin Minard, DJ Olive.

"Turning Sounds 4. Gębofon" International Meeting

The 2006 installment was devoted to extended vocal techniques and took place in Warsaw on August 18-20 at Warsaw's Mazowieckie Centrum Kultury i Sztuki, as well as at Cologne's Stadtgarten on August 12, thanks to involvement from Deutscher Musikrat.

Performances in Warsaw by: Biko1 with TikTak and Zgas, ElettroVoce (Cezary Duchnowski, Agata Zubel), Phil Minton, Sainkho Namtchylak, Andrė Pabarčiutė with Tomas Dobrovolskis and Raimondas Sviackevičius, POW (Han Buhrs, Robert van Heumen, Luc Houtkamp, Micha de Kanter), Olga Szwajgier with Sławomir Zubrzycki, Ge-Suk Yeo with Dietmar Hippler.

"Turning Sounds 5. Gębofon" International Meeting

Since 2008 "Gębofon" was spun-off as a separate event series.

"Turning Sounds 6" International Meeting

The "Turning Sounds 6" installment, co-curated by Peter Ablinger, is conceived as an open network of sound events in city spaces, including commissioned and already exisiting works, produced by the "Turning Sounds" Society as well as within the framework of other undertakings, affixed with the TS label.

Robin Minard Silent Music

Foyer of of Łódź Philharmonic, 2008/9 within contem.ucha contemporary music series.

It consists of hundreds of tiny speakers, which "bleed" murmurs and noises.

- wrote Jędrzej Słodkowski of Gazeta Wyborcza about the sound installation. The vernissage on December 16, 2008 was tied with a performance of pieces by composers associated with Academy of Music in Łódź Computer Studio.

Georg Nussbaumer Barcarolle, Łódź 2009

As an event of the Festiwal Dialogu Czterech Kultur.

(...) Six pianos (...) eavesdrop on the life of the city and (...) transfer what they hear to the audio room of the Philharmonic (...) and the program will include the occasional artistic intervention on the abandoned pianos. In creating the documentation of the city’s soundtrack, the composer has invited artists to take part, and also – on the ‘open mic’ premise – all those who would like to express themselves in front of the pianos. [Antoni Beksiak]

"The natives wanted to express themselves a bit differently: within a few hours one of the pianos was destroyed, five were stolen. The transmission continues, because only in one case the thieves realized that there was a mobile phone in the piano picking up the sounds of the drinking spree."

- wrote Jan Klata of Tygodnik Powszechny.

Collective work If you speak, it is no dream:

Sound installation conceived and curated by Antoni Beksiak and Lea Mauas and Diego Rotman of Sala-Manca, co-produced by Sala-Manca. Soundtracks by XV Parówek, 17 Migs of Spring, Eran Sachs and Wolfram. The four artists processed recordings of Hebrew words taken from a language textbook uttered by 28 foreign workers at the central bus station in Tel Aviv.

• Zimmer, Tel-Aviv 2009, part of the Contempo International Festival for Contemporary Music and Video Art.
• Warsaw 2010, within the framework of 53rd Warsaw Autumn at the Tęcza TV production studios.
• Frankfurt 2011, part of the AcousMain event series.

Beksiak originally had in mind a focus on the revival of the ancient Hebrew language by immigrants who arrived in Israel from all corners of the world, each bringing his or her native language to the way they expressed themselves in Hebrew. Sala-Manca’s Mauas and Rotman extended this idea to reflect the linguistic and social context of contemporary Israel and in particular Tel Aviv, where many foreign workers and refugees live and work. People for whom Hebrew is a necessity rather than an ideology, foreign workers “are not considered part of Israeli culture,” says Mauas.

- Ayelet Dekel, Midnight East/Haaretz

Collective work Fryderyk Chopin. Ciennik osobisty

English: ...Personal Gazebo or ...Personal Diary Bower. Sound installation by Antoni Beksiak (curator, concept), Anka Herbut (script), Natalia Kalita (actress), Aleksandra Karlińska (co-curator), Kuba Kowalski (director), Sławomir Kupczak (composition), Marek Szkoda (actor) et al.:

• Warszawa, Warsaw University Library garden, August 8 - September 8, 2010
• Istanbul, ITU MIAM courtyard, as part of the "Soundscapes from Poland" event, May 6 - June 6, 2014, with subtitles translated by Hakan Kocygit

The creators utilized snippets from the correspondence with lovers and friends. (...) Sławomir Kupczak wrote electroacoustic pieces inspired by nocturnes, polonaises, rondos. He says: The music distances itself from Chopin's thought, sometimes emphasizes it, and in some pieces contrasts with it.

- Izabela Szymańska, Gazeta Wyborcza (via e-teatr.pl)