ohrenhoch, der Geräuschladen presents
on Sunday January 17 and 24, 2010
the Installation and Performance
Bringing the Outside In
by Johnny Chang and Luke Munn
Installation (2 pm - 9 pm):
A selection of field recordings from Los Angeles, London, Auckland, New York, Berlin, Italy, Hong Kong and Taiwan, produced by Johnny Chang and Luke Munn. As the recordings play, the room on Weichselstraße is sonically relocated to other spaces around the world.
(17. Jan.: Mix by Luke Munn / 24. Jan.: Mix by Johnny Chang)
Performance (in the cellar, 7:30 pm - Entrance 3.- Euro):
A recording of street sound taken from directly outside ohrenhoch is transcribed and performed down in the cellar space, with Chang and Munn playing a selection of small instruments/objects. Audience members are invited to bring along their own objects from the Outside: coins, keys, scraps of paper and other detritus that will be activated acoustically as part of the performance.
Johnny Chang:
Johnny Chang is a violinist/composer based in Berlin. He has studied composition and experimental music performance with Michael Pisaro and James Tenney. In performance Mr Chang has collaborated with many performers both in the new music genre as well as those with more experimental inclination. Recent musical influences come from phonography and its performative potentials as well as the music of Christian Wolff, Salvatore Sciarrino, Peter Ablinger and an assortment of folk/pop/rock combinations.
Johnny Chang
Luke Munn:
Luke Munn's work incorporates sound composition, performance and new-media. In his live performances he utilises small objects such as glass pieces, activating and manipulating them through electronics, with a focus on a physical, visual set of movements. His work explores composition, playback and interaction in a series of contemporary pieces that mine earthquake data, human DNA, or moods taken from Facebook Updates to generate unique soundscapes. Projects have been included in the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, the Venice Biennale Eventi Collaterali, and Something New Chicago, among others.
Luke Munn