The first was recorded in December 2021 in Budapest at the audio-visual performance by DoN’t Eat Group, which was created in response to the sudden death of one of the group’s core members, István Diák (1970–2021), whom we commemorated with my live psychedelic noise music solo and a colourful, trance-like retrospective video.
The second was recorded in October 2024 in my residence studio apartment at the MQ. The sounds of eating a dinner of mushrooms, and washing the dishes can be heard in slow motion, just as we might hear them during a psychedelic trip: strangely distorted.
The third is my new remix of our piece, originally recorded in 2002 by the Sonic Catering Band, modulated from the sounds of food and the kitchen, evoking the auditory drone we experience during a psychedelic trip.
In the fourth recording, we can hear a list of foods that are said to facilitate psychedelic trips, read aloud by an online reading program and recorded with a dictaphone.
PSYCHEDELIC KITCHEN MEMORIES 8-channel soundwork, 7-part series of A1 images • duration / Länge 36’36” • concept, recordings, composition, A1 images Ahad aka Zsolt Sőrés • curator Jozef Cseres • installation set up Peter Szely & Norbert Math • production • artistic director Georg Weckwerth • special thanks Elisabeth Hajek
TONSPUR_passage | Micro Museum for Sound MQ Wien 5 May–14 Jun 2025 daily 10 am–8 pm
WORD BY WORD A total recitation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights All Viennese and all visitors to the city are cordially invited to take part in this unique and quite daring action to raise their voices together with Gerhard Rühm in favour of humanity and freedom of fundamental rights.
MQ Artists-in-Residence Open Studio | Do 17.10.2024, | 17h | AiR Studios 6 & 7 | Zugang über Hof 7/Stiege 13 | At the presentation Sőrés will be playing on PolyViola, a newly developed polyphonic electronic experimental music instrument. The PolyViola is the work of Berlin based master experimental musical instrument builder and digital instrument development…
TONSPUR_display #10 • CLARA OPPEL • I can't hear you • 2024 • Object without sound • 113 loudspeaker, stranded wire, steel Dimensions 181 x 100 cm • TONSPUR_passage | Micro Museum for Sound & TONSPUR_display | Showroom TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien • MQ Wien • 23 Sep-13 Nov
Sep 7—Oct 20 • opening Fri 6 Sep, 18:00—20:00 • Bill Fontana • Silent Echoes: Dachstein • TONSPUR_passage | Micro Museum for Sound • MQ Wien • a project by European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut & MuseumsQuartier Wien
From 25 August to 25 October, Norrlandsoperan presents works by Vienna-based artist, filmmaker and author Sabine Groschup under the title »CAGE WITHOUT CAGE«. The multimedia show in the Vita kuben exhibition space includes film, conceptual art, photography, animation, installation, poetry, textile and sound art — and extends into the foyer of the opera house with…
Time & place: mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna Apr 16, 12:15 Lecture Hall Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1 1030 Vienna Admission free Boris Hegenbart was Artist in Residence at the MuseumsQuartier Wien in February 2024. In the small living studio filled with the original loudspeakers of the TONSPUR_passage directly under the roof of the…
TONSPUR_display #7 in memoriam Peter Weibel * 5.3.1944 † 1.3.2023 Der elektrische Krieg, 1983 2.3.—1.5.2024 Opening • Friday • 1 März 2024 19:00 Introduction: Romana Schuler word donations: Sabine Kienzer • David Moss • Ruth Schnell • Gerhard Rühm
TONSPUR_display #5 Ursula Neugebauer • Artothek Wien, 2001 • Lightbox Timm Ulrichs • ohne Resonanz, 1983/89 • Echo chamber of a guitar cast in concrete, in wooden crate with branded title MQ-Artists-in-Residence 28.8.—22.10.2023 Preview Sunday 27 August 2023 17:00 In the presence of the artists With an introduction by Sabine Kienzer TONSUR_display | Indoor Showroom
Lavender Lauds was selected for presentation in Radiophrenia, a Glasgow-based annual radio festival of experimental music. It's possible to listen online through Radiophrenia's online player.
ALVIN CURRAN LIVE • PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM Film music from “Casablanca” to “The World's End” from “King Kong” to … “To be a composer alive today is not to be a composer of your time, but merely to be part of one tiny sect, one small cult, at a time when the music of…
A workshop on walking as a method to investigate rhythms To sharpen the participants’ sensitivity to detect rhythms in themselves and in their environment, the workshop focusses on exploring walking as a practice to explore rhythm and respond to rhythm with the body as an instrument. Marta Beauchamp will be conducting the workshop with two…
Concert Gareth Davis & Scanner play live at Volkstheater “Rote Bar” on May 5 – 22:30 Scanner Scanner (British artist Robin Rimbaud) traverses the experimental terrain between sound and space connecting a bewilderingly diverse array of genres. Since 1991 he has been intensely active in sonic art, producing concerts, installations and recordings. He scored the…
Artist Talk – Digitale Kunst: Clara Oppel Public Lecture – DIGITALE KUNST/ Ruth Schnell Thursday, 9 March 2023 14:00 – 15:30 Venue: Expositur PSK, Georg-Coch-Platz 2/1st floor, 1010 Vienna CLARA OPPEL (sound artist, Graz) BREATHING SPACE Clara Oppel will talk about her artistic work and working methods at the interfaces of space, sound, installation and…
PETER WEIBEL (1944–2023) TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien mourns the passing of one of its artists and vociferous supporters, Peter Weibel, who died on 1 March 2023 in Karlsruhe. To commemorate the life of Peter Weibel, his 2011 work for TONSPUR für einen öffentlichen raum is being reinstalled for one day, in the TONSPUR_passage | Micro Museum…
TONSPUR_display #3 Rebecca Chesney & Lubaina Himid Wee-weep • Great Favourites at Court 28 Nov 2022—25 Feb 2023 TONSPUR_display showrooms Q21/MQ Wien MQ Wien • Museumsplatz 1 • 1070 Vienna
An interactive Speaker Sculpture in the shape of a Pestsäule Commissioned by TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien Karlsruhe as UNESCO City of Media Arts presents impressive installations in public spaces at the plenary assembly of the World Council of Churches in Karlsruhe.From August 18 to September 18 2022, the City of Karlsruhe’s Department of Cultural Affairs of…
TONSPUR_display #1 Uwe Bressnik IMAGINE – The Sound of Silence Kunst- und Katalogpräsentation Opening Fr May 6, 5pm TONSPUR_display Q21 showrooms MQ Wien 7 May–27 Aug 2022
Listen to it on https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/tonspur-galerie-dlf-kultur-c94c69ac-100.html For almost 20 years, the TONSPUR Kunstverein in Vienna’s Museumsquartier has been presenting multi-channel compositions. “What the White Cube is to visual art,” says curator Georg Weckwerth, “what the urban, public space is to sound art – this cross-border genre at the intersection of visual art, media art and music.”
Secret Songs Producer TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien Age 8 to 12 years (max. 8 participants) Day / Time / Duration Sat, 7.5 / 11 am to 4 pm / 5 hours (incl. 45 min break) Location Room D / Q21/MQ What does the world sound like? What sounds and noises surround us every day at home,…
Unusual times require unusual measures. To support our artists, we are launching this new series: TONSPUR_live sets in times of COVID-19 The artists play a set via video live stream on the TONSPUR facebook page and answer your questions.
Tonspur (literally soundtrack) is a classical German term used in talking about visual and acoustic media, it is also the title of a truly unique project situated since 2003 in the Museumsquartier Wien as well as a temporary presence at other international locations. The white cube is to the visual arts what urban public space is for sound art — that crossover between fine art, media art and music. The TONSPUR_passage in the Museumsquartier Wien (since 2006) or, venue for a while, Schlossplatz in the centre of Berlin (2009–2012), or the passage at the old Town Hall in Maribor in Slovenia (2016–2020) are just such public spaces. These locations are regularly passed as people traverse town, or during their exploratory forays through the metropolises. Artists from all disciplines and from around the world are developing and realising computer-controlled sound works in the TONSPUR series specially for these transitory locations. Their multi-channel compositions take sound well beyond the usual stereophonic experience, creating captivating acoustic architectures and sound spaces. But TONSPUR offers more: a varied and interdisciplinary engagement with sound as a sculptural and malleable medium in contemporary art is broadened by concerts, sound performances and live streams, lectures and book presentations, workshops and guided tours, the TONSPUR_expanded series of exhibitions, the TONSPUR_library and the TONSPUR_display as well as special projects with art in public space or the TONSPUR_tribute show “Membra Disjecta for John Cage” and, last but not least, international guest appearances with the TONSPUR_collection. TONSPUR unites artists from various disciplines acoustically while introducing its audience to a broader notion of the reception of art and of art itself. In this sense, TONSPUR für einen öffentlichen raum addresses everybody who encounters the city and art with their eyes and ears open.
Georg Weckwerth founder, chairman, artistic director TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien
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