Heroines of Sound Festival 2024 – Pulsatile Presences: Improvising with radio bodies and somatic rhythms
Workshop with Florencia Curci and Tatiana Heuman
Workshop Festival
Florencia Curci, Tatiana Heuman © Archivo Tsonami
Florencia Curci © Archivo ttu
This hands-on workshop centres around listening with the body. The aim is to raise awareness of the different rhythms in one’s own body and its surroundings. On this basis, we will produce local FM radio broadcasts that invite spontaneous compositions and improvisations. FM radios will receive different interference patterns and radio signals, to which the workshop participants will respond with percussive elements such as rhythmic clicks, crackles and beats. Together, they will create a diverse soundscape of organic and electronic sounds that encourages mindful listening. The experiment will transverse indoor and outdoor spaces, in which small-scale sound installations and radio choreographies will be improvised. These collaborative, site-specific pieces will adapt to the content, mood, volume and location as the radios are adjusted. Together we will explore how architecture and surroundings influence sound, thereby highlighting the contours of an arhythmic, percussive noise that spreads and overlaps almost imperceptibly in the aural space.
Biographien
Florencia Curci and Tatiana Heuman began their sonic journey as drummers in the underground of experimental music in Buenos Aires Argentina; they met improvising, playing and hitting drumheads and objects in their respective bands COSO and Ricarda Cometa. They have come together multiple times to work in different constellations such as the transfeminist sound platform #VIVAS and the current project Siestaria, dedicated to navigating crisis through rest, caring and listening to dreams. Tatiana and Florencia have worked together in HKW (DE), CASo (AR), and Festival Tsonami (CL) among others. Florencia Curci is a sound & radio artist and curator. Her work focuses on noise and rhythms as relative concepts that can configure perception, communication and subjectivity. Tatiana Heuman works in the fields of sound, movement, and media arts. Her current interests are constructing and maintaining spaces for the exchange of narratives and rituals that favor presence, care, and the formation of bonds.
Language
In English and Spanish
10/ max. 12 participants
All interested parties are welcome, no prior knowledge required. FLINTA* participants are especially invited.
A radio and/or a small sound object can be brought along with which rhythmic beats can be created.
Credits
Heroines of Sound 2024 is funded by the Capital Cultural Fund and the Mariann Steegmann Foundation.
Further partners are CHB Berlin, Klang Festival, Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, Koda Kultur, Statens Kunstfonds. As part of Zeitgeist Ireland 24, an initiative of Culture Ireland and the Irish Embassy in Germany.
Media partnerships Heroines of Sound Festival 2024: Groove, Gonzo (Circus), The Quietus, The Berliner, Berlin Art Link, Digital in Berlin
Media partnerships Radialsystem: The Berliner, Rausgegangen, tip Berlin, taz. die tageszeitung.
This hands-on workshop centres around listening with the body. The aim is to raise awareness of the different rhythms in one’s own body and its surroundings. On this basis, we will produce local FM radio broadcasts that invite spontaneous compositions and improvisations. FM radios will receive different interference patterns and radio signals, to which the workshop participants will respond with percussive elements such as rhythmic clicks, crackles and beats. Together, they will create a diverse soundscape of organic and electronic sounds that encourages mindful listening. The experiment will transverse indoor and outdoor spaces, in which small-scale sound installations and radio choreographies will be improvised. These collaborative, site-specific pieces will adapt to the content, mood, volume and location as the radios are adjusted. Together we will explore how architecture and surroundings influence sound, thereby highlighting the contours of an arhythmic, percussive noise that spreads and overlaps almost imperceptibly in the aural space.
Biographies
Florencia Curci and Tatiana Heuman began their sonic journey as drummers in the underground of experimental music in Buenos Aires Argentina; they met improvising, playing and hitting drumheads and objects in their respective bands COSO and Ricarda Cometa. They have come together multiple times to work in different constellations such as the transfeminist sound platform #VIVAS and the current project Siestaria, dedicated to navigating crisis through rest, caring and listening to dreams. Tatiana and Florencia have worked together in HKW (DE), CASo (AR), and Festival Tsonami (CL) among others. Florencia Curci is a sound & radio artist and curator. Her work focuses on noise and rhythms as relative concepts that can configure perception, communication and subjectivity. Tatiana Heuman works in the fields of sound, movement, and media arts. Her current interests are constructing and maintaining spaces for the exchange of narratives and rituals that favor presence, care, and the formation of bonds.
