Sound Art & Notation
10-20 March 2022, open daily (Thu-Sun) from 4 - 8 p.m
Errant Sound, Rungestr. 20, 10179 Berlin

An exhibition with notations, sound installations, performance, a blog and discourse featuring work by CRiSAP Member Salomé Voegelin and artists Eunice Artur, Juliana Herrero and Jutta Ravenna.

The project Sound Art and Notation explores the question of which forms of notation exist in sound art practice in the age of digital and global public space. Works by artists such as Salomé Voegelin (Berlin), Eunice Artur (Lisbon), Juliana Herrero (Vienna) and Jutta Ravenna (Berlin), who are situated in the environment of notation, will be presented. In addition to breaking down authorship. Special attention will be paid to the diversity of their artistic strategies in spatially notated music, text scores, tactile scores or notations of audio walks. In an exhibition with notations, blog, performances and discourse, visitors will experience a broad spectrum of concrete examples from the current sound art scene, which also includes two sound installations.

Notation as a fixation of sound stands in opposition to the processual character of sound art. Insofar the combination of sound art and notation poses a challenge. Recipients are not only involved as “readers” but as actors. Through participatory elements in the notation of sound art, the boundary between performers and listeners, music and interpreter is broken down.

In what form is the information of a notation communicated? The diversity of digital signs, words, numbers or symbols is contrasted with analogue forms such as graphics on paper, material assemblages, three-dimensional objects, natural materials or land art exhibits conceived as music. This raises the exciting question of how the code of a “sound art score” reads.

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