“Is the tear or the telescope the better augmentation of the eye?” “The impossibility of not crying.” This ability to fluidify something that has solidified within me is the basis of all music.
The Prague astronomer Johannes Kepler sought the “music of the cosmos”. He used just mathematics and knowledge of the planetary orbits as the basis for his notation in his Harmonices mundi. TONSPUR 93 features the original sounds of the planets Uranus, Saturn, the ex-planet Pluto and the giant Jupiter, measured as waves by NASA and the ESO probes as these giant bodies break through space-time.
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
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…
GOOD GOD (Box) The words in the form of a work with neon was completed in 2018. The apparently defective ‘O’ in the word ‘GOOD’ links the words GOOD and GOD with one another in a succinct and entirely unpretentious manner. This deconstructed construct uses an artistic intervention to reflect on common conceptions of a…
Wee-weep • Great Favourites at Court Wee-weep, 2022 P’tsoo-ée, tsoo-ée, tsoo-éedür, dür, dür, dür, dür, dür “Songs of Wild Birds” by EM Nicholson and Ludwig Koch, first published in 1936, tries to help us understand the language of birds through written interpretation of their calls and songs. But can we really capture the beauty and…
IN CAMERA A walk in Vienna and the countryside becomes a self-contained journey confined to a form painted on the glass wall of the TONSUR_display – itself a contained space of odd angles. In camera isa Latin term that means in my chamber or in my room. It is used in law to refer to…
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…
IMAGINE – The Sound of Silence Art and catalog presentation Opening Fri 06.05., 5 pm (t.b.c.) until August Artist catalogue 2018: Updated and Expanded New Special Editions in English and French, Schlebrügge.Editor, Wien 2022 @ TONSPUR_display Indoor-Showroom TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien, Q21/MQ Website: https://uwe-bressnik.info/aktuelles
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
