A spacial sound composition for church bells, church organ, brass orchestra, bicycle sound systems, vibraphones, recorders, street noises and electronics.
Piazza Della Repubblica, Foligno, Italy, June 27th, 2009, 9.00 - 18.30
Spiazzacorale
David Malkovic with Jan St Werner at Pinksummer gallery
Opening December 5th, 2008
Pinksummer
Palazzo Ducale, Cortile Maggiore 28R
Piazza Matteotti 9
16123 Genova, Italy
Gallery hours
From Tuesday to Saturday 15:00-19:30
pinksummer.com
The Noisemashinetapes Archive
The Noisemashinetapes Archive includes extensive holdings of 20th and 21st century music recordings and special collections mixed and edited by Jan St Werner between 1998-2008. The archive is hosted by ChickenHed.
chickenhed.us/noisemashinetapes
Noise Room 3
Noise Room
An artificial listening site created by Jan St Werner
Friday 29 August to Sunday 28 September 2008
Private View: Friday 29 August 2008, 7:00PM to 9:00PM
CUBITT
Gallery and Studios
8 Angel Mews
London N1 9HH
T +44 (0)20 7278 8226
F +44 (0)20 7278 2544
Open: Wednesday-Sunday 12-6pm
cubittartists.org.uk/
Cd with stereo versions of selected Noise Room pieces on sonig
Vertiginous Mapping
In Vertiginous Mapping, Rosa Barba utilizes conventions of documentary film-making and weaves together new and historical footage with materials she located in municipal archives, including documentation of Sweden's switch from driving on the left to the right side of the road in 1967. Rather than building upon a central plot, Barba prefers to present a labyrinth of information, altering and fabricating elements along the way. The soundtrack for this web based project was composed by Jan St. Werner and Adam Butler.
www.diaart.org/barba/intro
Sun State 1
Concert/installation by Diango Hernandez, Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner at Kunsthalle Duesseldorf, Oct. 17th 2007. A limited edition of 100 hand crafted vinyl records was presented at the event.
myspace.com/sununstate
sun state live video
15 jahre neue experimentelle Musik aus Köln
DJ Vortrag, Kunstverein Köln, 26.10.2007
mit Musik von C-Schulz, Frank Dommert, Georg Odijk, Blockwart, Dies Duene Blad, Kontakta, Hajsch, Pol, Marcus Schmickler, Workshop, Holosud, Schlammpeitziger, F.X. Randomiz, Harald "Sack" Ziegler & The Allophons.
Vorgemischte Welt
„Mit Vorgemischte Welt legen Klaus Sander und Jan St. Werner die anregendsten Gedanken zum Thema Musik und deren ästhetische Bedingungen seit Jahren vor. Wer sich auch nur ein wenig über Musik als traditionelles Beruhigungsmedium hinaus für tatsächlich auch soziologische, biologische, ökonomische oder ästhetische Fragen des Kunstschaffens interessiert, darf an diesem Buch nicht vorbeigehen. Pflichtlektüre!“ (Der Standard, Wien)
Suhrkamp Verlag
STEIM Studio3 Concert Series
Concert series curated by Jan St. Werner in steim's studio 3 presenting old and new electronic experimentalists. After the concerts the steim foyer turned into a bar.
steim concert archive 2005
steim concert archive 2006
Noise Cabin
During 5 days off 2006 the program NOISE CABIN was taking place in De Melkweg, Amsterdam NL. A new design for the club space, in both a spatial and a musical sense. The Noise Cabin is a collaboration of Jan St. Werner with the visual artists Diango Hernandez, Rosa Barba and Anne Pöhlmann. They will change the Oude Zaal of the Melkweg in a way that changes the setting of a regular club space. A huge amount of prints will cover the space and transform it into a flickering and resonating entity. Photocopies, prints, black & white images, graphics and projections will change the space into an archive, a visual treasure of instable data: noise. Visitors can read the prints on the walls, make connections between musical and visual codes and discover the instability of sound and visuals. The resonance is multiplied by Andreas Otto and Florian Grote of the German Pingipung label, who will recreate the venue into an enormous sound installation that will create pulsations in the space as the massive output of the sound system of the club space.
Marshall Amp Fire
sound event @ CASCO Office for Art Design and Theory, Utrecht, Netherlands
St Werner adapted electric harmoniums to create a subtle continuous sound that is every now and again disrupted by other noises that were recorded in the space, quietly harmonising and conflicting with the social setting.
Casco archive
Wichtel und die Wuchteln
Wichtel und die Wuchteln: Hämchen Hämchen
Wuchtel und die Wichteln: Wunderschöner junger Mann
CD-Single
ISBN: 978-3-932513-67-1
Euro 12,00
suppose
Noise Room
The NOISE ROOM is an autonomous surround sound installation built for pre-recorded musical works and sonic experiments. It is a musical deconstruction of a room-within-a-room as much as it is a sound studio sculpture. Each musical work which is performed in the NOISE ROOM has been selected, edited and arranged for a listening situation in which the listeners can dedicate themselves to a maximum listening experience. The pieces presented in the NOISE ROOM refer specifically to the concept of a so-called ‘speaker’ concert in contrast to a so-called ‘live’ concert. Each composition will be played back through a multi-channel 5.1 speaker setup that is configured according to the spatial acoustics of the NOISE ROOM. The NOISE ROOM is a project of Jan St. Werner, former artistic director of STEIM and member of Mouse on Mars. The NOISE ROOM features compositions by:
Lee Ranaldo, Black Dice, Kevin Blechdom, Stereolab, Mouse on Mars, Lithops, Sun ok papi k.o., David Grubbs, Vert, Jason Forrest, Daniel Schorno, Casey Rice, Robert van Heumen, Jeff Carey, Hrvatski.
noiseroom.org
noise room video
a 3D view &
stills of the noise room by pieter kers
doku/fiction Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
Starting from the idea of producing a remix album of Mouse on Mars in book-form, Jan St.Werner and Andi Toma, in conjunction with the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, asked over 30 artists, musicians, designers and scientists to document their imaginative responses to and associations with Mouse on Mars. They were invited to contribute works for the project without actually generating any sound. Inspired by the music of Mouse on Mars (to be viewed as ‘work in progress’ rather than something striving to be complete), ideas, sketches and designs were originated, which correspond to a fantastical, occasionally formal, but always personal analysis of what it means to experience music.
The exhibition featured works by Heike Baranowsky, Rosa Barba, Laurent Baudoux, Armin Boehm, Michel Carré, Katja Davar, Diango Hernández, Waseem Khan, Matthias Köchling, Dirk Königsfeld, Stefan Kozalla, Simon Lewis, Jean-François Moriceau & Petra Mrzyk, Soulis Moustakidis, Daniel Roth, Constantin Rothkopf, Silke Schatz, Christian Schwarzwald, Alice Stepanek/Steven Maslin, Leif Trenkler, Emmett Williams, Jo Zimmermann.
kunsthalle-duesseldorf.de/
DasArts Open Lab 123 "On Being A Band"
Musical Reading & Workshop by Jan St Werner
October 11th - 23rd 2005
DasArts, Mauritskade 56, 1092 Amsterdam
"By learning with others you can get instant feedback from other creative minds (each bringing to the table different experiences and insights) DURING the learning process. This enables a kind of collective experience that can be drawn upon when internalizing information the first time. I don't believe collective learning is stressed in the west. Performing music in a creative group is collective learning as is playing in a big band of some sort but I'm speaking now of collective learning in the more general and traditional concept of studying and conceptualizing together with others.."
O. Coleman, "An Interview"
"We came together to try out a kind of aesthetics of failure i.e. an aesthetics of the non-ability, of wanting and willing. And this is a very painful aesthetics, it is an aesthetics of embarrassment, blamage and renouncement. But as it is actually all about seizing an emotional affect on the listener and how it naturally feeds back as disgrace and how this embarrassment becomes a play of being taken away and feeling painful... "
Oswald Wiener on the occasion of the Berlin concert of "SELTEN GEHÖRTE MUSIK" 1974
dasarts archive, scroll down
Sound vs. Instrument
12 hour sound lecture at the gerrit rietveld akademie in summer 2005 featuring music, quotes & comments on the separation of the sound from the instrument throughout the 2oth century.
Otto Rössler: Descartes' Traum
Otto E. Rössler: Descartes' Traum
"Der Chaosforscher Otto E. Rössler (geboren 1940), Professor für Theoretische Chemie und Spezialist für Nichtspezialisiertheit, ist ein hinreißender Erzähler, der seine Hörer mit Begeisterung anzustecken versteht. Der Entdecker des nach ihm benannten Rössler-Attraktors hält die Wissenschaft für eine wichtige Aufgabe und gleichzeitig für ein Spiel, er schätzt Gehirngleichungen und die Theorie der Menschenrechte. In eigens für diese CD aufgenommenen improvisierten Kurzvorträgen berichtet er von der unendlichen Macht des Außenstehens, von Heraklit's Joystick und Descartes’ Traum, spricht über Mikrorelativität, Bewußtsein, Quantenwelten und Chaos ohne Charakter, entwickelt eine kleine Theorie des Lächelns und entdeckt das Wunder des Jetzt."
suppose.de
Rosa Barba
Various soundtracks for films and installations.
"The work of Rosa Barba points towards a future cinema that's not beholden to the digital, yet which is still capable of exploring uncharted territory just as resourcefully."
rosabarba.com
Meshbox
the meshbox is a sample sequencer consisting of a usb controller board and a software patch. it allows the sampling of a line or microphone signal on the fly and provides a range of real-time editing functions. the meshbox works as a stand alone tool or is syncable to midi. the meshbox has been contrived by jan st. werner, was programmed by frank balde and will be built by jorgen brinkmann at the steim workshop, amsterdam.
steim
steimprojector
doku/fiction Book
doku/fiction publication edited by Kunsthalle Düsseldorf 160 pages & CD 16.8 x 24 cm released: April 2004
ISBN: 3-89955-03-8
Softcover, incl. CD with 9 audio tracks by Mouse on Mars. Design by Frieda Luczak, Icon Communications Design, Cologne
Using Mouse on Mars' songs, albums and concerts as inspiration, 37 artists, musicians, designers and academics have created commentaries, paintings, drawings and collages for this book. The results gathered here document the visual, artistic and theoretical contexts of modern electronic music as well as a range of personal interpretations of what it’s like to experience it. The book contains essays by author and journalist Dietmar Dath as well as Professor Siegfried Zielinski of the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne in addition to an interview of linguist and cyberneticist Oswald Wiener by Jan St. Werner. As an added bonus, the book includes an audio CD featuring 9 exclusive Mouse on Mars tracks referring to the production of the remix artworks. The concept for an accompanying exhibition was born out of the book project. It is held at the German museum Kunsthalle Duesseldorf from April 4 through June 27, 2004.
doku/fiction publication
Sound Speaker
Comprised of unequal parts concert, exhibition, lecture and theatre play, “sound speaker” presents interdisciplinary performances highlighting the inconsequential and the unpredictable in music. The artists and performers take the stage and use sound itself as the medium to address questions of musical aesthetics, dynamics and logics.
SOUND SPEAKER 1: David Michael DiGregorio and Sung Hwan Kim "Two in a Room" aug. 24 2006
SOUND SPEAKER 2: James Beckett feat. the n-ensemble „animals in instruments“ sept. 2 2006
Venue: STEIM, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134
Info and reservations: knock@steim.nl or 020-6228690
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