To hear on Sunday 24 April and 1 May 2016, 2pm - 9pm:
MÜNCHEN GOLLIERPLATZ
A city-space-sound network of relationships
weaved and untangled by Sylvia Necker (Hamburg/Munich)
composed and produced in 2016 as a two-part sound work for ohrenhoch Berlin
Sylvia Necker on 'MÜNCHEN GOLLIERPLATZ':
In 2014 the sound worker and historian Sylvia Necker completely unexpectedly ended up in Munich. She found her new working and dwelling place at the Gollierplatz in the Munich Westend. During her being on-site and hearing the site the urban space was perceived by her increasingly as an acoustic network of relationships. MÜNCHEN GOLLIERPLATZ makes hearable eight different sites at Gollierplatz and follows up the sound correnpondences: two churches, a school, a bank, the tavern, the children's playground, the fountain and Germany's last home for single male persons are the site references of this sound work. Besides the sound characteristics of the eight sites voice-overs to the perception of the Gollierplatz in April 2016 are heard as well as soundtracks, which Sylvia Necker recorded with synthesizers, double bass and percussion.
In 'Soundactivism' it says "ohrenhoch is a command to offer to the public a conscious perception of the acoustic and implicitly political, social, individual environment. Unfold the spectrum. Fathom the agency of the acoustic. A hearing enlightenment. Impact beyond sound."
MÜNCHEN GOLLIERPLATZ wants to sound-unfold, sound-fathom, sound-enlighten and sound-impact.
Audio Field Report no. 46 / Soundaktivismus 25: Interview with Sylvia Necker by Knut Remond. Limited edition audio cassette, 8 copies numbered. Available at 'ohrenhoch, der Geräuschladen' (and can be heard in the ohrenhoch archive on headphone).
Sylvia Necker
Dr. Sylvia Necker lives and works in Hamburg and Munich as an exhibition maker, historian and sound worker. As a sound worker and radio maker she deals with experimental music and composes audio pieces as well as soundscapes. As a live performer she can be heard preferably as an electronician and percussionist as well as with keyboard and wind instruments. Since some years Sylvia Necker has been performing with her 'Space Station', an idiosyncratic equipment with several meters of cable, control buttons, electronic sound generators, effect units and a computer, with which she produces atmospheric ambient sounds as well as scratchy nasty noise sounds.
Website Sylvia Necker