New conceptual project for liquid music 15 “Unser Projektentwurf trägt den Titel Tuning Infrastructure. Anders als die bisherigen Arbeiten im Rahmen von Stadtmusik beschränkt sich das Projekt nicht auf Repräsentation, sondern nimmt sich die aktive Veränderung einer architektonischen Situation zum Ziel. Thema ist der Einfluss von meist fix verorteten Maschinen — Ventilatoren, Klimaanlagen … — […]
From the Seminar on Urban Form, 1954, MIT Kevin Lynch archives: “Kepes: If you could articulate the existing city sound patterns, what would you do, what would be your needs to be satisfied? With purposeful organization of city sounds, we could enrich the experience of the city. Cage: My feeling is that this is already […]
Discard studies has an interesting bibliography of noise pollution If waste is, broadly defined, the externalities of social and technical systems, then noise is a quintessential form of waste. Noise pollution is disturbing or excessive sound that may harm humans or animals, and, not surprisingly, it usually emits from industrial technologies.
Our Vimeo Channel features now full-length versions of many stadtmusik films.
A previously unpublished text by Stadtmusik members Dietmar Offenhuber and Sam Auinger on the relationship between urban configuration and the soundscape. The morphology of the urban environment and its experience is a topic with many facets, and urban planners and designers developed a rich palette of methods for describing the structural qualities of urban space. […]
Trevor Cox in the New Scientist: “One problem with decibel measurement is that it does not differentiate between “negative” and “positive” sounds. Take the sounds made by a fountain in a town square, happy children in a playground or the cheerful toot of the Manchester tram – any one of which might exceed permitted sound […]
A student of Kevin Lynch and Professor of Urban Studies at UC Berkeley, Michael Southsworth created experience maps of 1960 Boston’s sonic environment. Unlike Schafer, Southworth did not try to describe characteristic sounds for an urban place, but was mainly interested in the strength of the relationship between soundscape and place. This links back to […]
Sam Auinger and Reinhard Braun (steirischer herbst, Graz) / Image from the Paneldiscussion (Stefanie Schulte Strathaus (Arsenal, Berlin), Mike Sperlinger (LUX, London), Josef Dabernig (Secession, Wien), Alexander Horwath (Filmmuseum, Wien)) Link
A small souvenir from Sam and Dietmar’s visit to Arc-et-Senans, a play on the pre-industrial factory architecture of Claude Nicolas Ledoux…
The Austrian Film Museum will be the illustrous setting for the premiere of our last film on Sept. 14th. Sam Auinger will present the film in the following panel discussion with Stefanie Schulte-Strathaus (Arsenal, Berlin), Mike Sperlinger (LUX, London), Josef Dabernig (Secession, Wien), Alexander Horwath (Filmmuseum, Wien), moderated by Reinhard Braun (steirischer herbst, Graz).