Aural Cinemas

Aural Cinemas

Sound art exhibition curated by Stéphane Montavon and Tamar Tembeck, as part of the Bild, Stimme II: Figuren des Audiovisuellen  conference at eikones (Basel, 2009).

The project is documented in “Scenes for Ears,” by Stéphane Montavon and Tamar Tembeck,  in Maren Butte and Sabina Brandt, eds., Bild und Stimme (Munich: Fink, 2011).

Aural Cinemas presents two programs of soundworks by 12 contemporary artists, primarily based in Canada and Switzerland. Conceived as a companion piece to the Bild, Stimme II: Figuren des Audiovisuellen conference, Aural Cinemas features a constellation of audio pieces, each implicating different forms of voice/image interactions. Alternatively privileging orality, narrative, the medium of radio or telecommunications devices, electroacoustic composition, and soundscapes derived from field recordings, the works in Aural Cinemas offer a broad palette of contemporary sound practices that enrich our discussions of voice and image during Bild, Stimme II.

Program 1:

A1
1. Gilles GOBEIL : La Ville Machine (1992) – 14m45s
2. Chantal DUMAS : L’ailleurs (1996) – 19m30s
3. Robert NORMANDEAU : Spleen (1993) – 15m00s
4. Gilles GOBEIL : Mogidell À Oscar Wiggli (2008) – 8m41s
B1
Emmanuel MADAN : Freedom Highway (2002-2004) – 52m09s
C1
1. Christof MIGONE : Evasion, or how to perform a tongue escape in public (2000) – 4m05s
2. Christof MIGONE : Analphabête from Hole in the Head CD (1996) – 0m25s
3. Christof MIGONE : << I >> (2003) – 8m41s
4. Christof MIGONE : Confession You, Call 1 from Hole in the Head CD (1996) – 3m32s
5. Christof MIGONE : Notus (excerpt from South Winds) (2002) – 5m07s
6. Gilles AUBRY : Planes (2009) – 20m24s
D1
Oscar WIGGLI : Radalvar (2004) – 43m39s
Program 2:
A2
1. Robert NORMANDEAU : Éclats de voix (1991) – 14m51s
2. Chantal DUMAS : Ozeanische Wanderung (1996-1997) – 18m36s
3. Robert NORMANDEAU : Spleen (1993) – 15m00s
4. Gilles GOBEIL : Projet Proust (1995, 2001) – 13m17s
B2
Chantal DUMAS / Christian CALON : Le petit homme dans l’oreille / The Little Man in the Ear (2000) – 56m44s
C2
Brandon LABELLE : Dirty Ear (2008) – 54m00s
D2
1. Anna FRIZ : Radio CRTX (2006) – 6m44s
2. Anna FRIZ / Eric LEONARDSON : Staropolska (2007) – 3m47s
3. Anna FRIZ / Emmanuel MADAN : The Joy Channel (2006-2007) – 33m50
Screening:
John Oswald, Homonymy (1998) – 11m11s