URBAN AUDIO Turku 7th to 16th July 2011

What's the sound of the European Capital of Culture?

The sound-art and experimental music project URBAN AUDIO is coming to Turku investigate the musical potential of the European Capital of Culture 2011 and to let citizens and visitors participate in a new quality of perceiving urban space.

In a nine days project, URBAN AUDIO will turn the urban sounds of the Finish town Turku to music. Special stringed instruments transform all ambient sounds to musical tunes. Every noise and sound, every shouting, barking, honking or laughing, and every car passing by will play a tone on the instruments.

The acoustical structure of each situation is the compositional basis for the music that is extracted from urban space. The result mirrors the urban environment as musical abstraction. This music is directly created by the individual decisions, actions and interactions of people in the urban space of Turku

The URBAN AUDIO van with its mobile recording-studio will be present on different sites in the public space of Turku (see list bellow). Citizens and visitors are invited to listen live to the transformation of urban sounds on headphones and to enjoy the yet unheard acoustical quality of urban space.

The URBAN AUDIO has its basis at Logomo, where the latest recordings from Turku will be presented every evening from 8pm to 10pm (local time).

On the 12th of July there will be an online live-stream of the musical transformation of one urban site in Turku. 8pm – 10 pm (local time) www.urban-audio.org

On the way to Turku, URBAN AUDIO will stop in Tallinn, for a one-day project as part of tunedcity Tallinn. The recordings from Tallinn will be presented at the opening-event in Turku at Logomo.

The tunedcity Tallinn conference with international experts in the field of sound and public space will be live-streamed to Turku, where interested visitors can follow the panel at Logomo. (10th of July, 11am – 3pm, local time, Turku)

All recordings from Turku will also be published on www.urban-audio.org/turku.html

Florian Tuercke, who is the artist behind the project URBAN AUDIO, was invited to present his project in Turku by recommendation of the international Jury (Domenico Quaranta, Erkki Huhtamo, Andy Best) of the media-art Grand Prix “live2011” in which the project URBAN AUDIO DeutschlandTour 2010 (www.stadt-akustik.de) has received the 3rd prize in the category “digital Turku”.

project: Florian Tuercke (http://www.tunedcity.net/?page_id=1371)
project-assistance: Christian Weiß (Galerie postwurf.org)
in collaboration with: Turku2011Foundation

contact: mail(a)urban-audio.org (Florian Tuercke)
and: ulla.bergstrom(a)turku2011.fi (Ulla Bergström, Turku2011Foundation)

Tunedcity Tallinn
URBAN AUDIO Tallinn

Logomo

Dates:

Opening event with the presentation of URBAN AUDIO Tallinn and artist-talk
Thursday, 7th of July, 5pm (local time) at Logomo

Live-stream from the tunedcity Tallinn conference at Logomo
10th of July, 11am – 3pm (local time) at Logomo

llive online broadcast from URBAN AUDIO Turku
12th of July, 8pm – 10pm (local time) www.urban-audio.org

Final event with the presentation of the results from URBAN AUDIO Turku
Saturday, 16th of July, 5pm – 7pm (local time) at Logomo

Dates and places in public space:

Friday 8th July:
Linnankatu / Aurakatu
3pm - 7pm

Saturday 9th July:
Eerikinkatu / Kristiinankatu
3pm - 7pm

Monday 11th July:
Uudenmaankatu / Itäinen Pitkäkatu
3pm - 7pm

Wednesday 13th july:
market square (Aurakatu / Yliopistonkatu)
1pm - 7pm

Friday 15th july:
Bus-station (Aninkaistenkatu / Läntinen Pitkäkatu)
6pm - 10pm