ClubTransMediale 2007
under the theme of: building space

CTM07 feature: liquid-space05
// Collaborative design session
// 23/1 - 3/2/2007
// Ballhaus Naumystrasse, Berlin

about the festival

CTM07 motto 'BUILDING SPACE' investigates how music and the interplay of sound and moving images can create new dimensions in our experience of space. Once again, the CTM Festival's approach is interdisciplinary and intensive: media arts meet experimental music. Besides questioning the synergy of sound and image - the sensuous, physical and technical basis of our experience of space and its configuration - the focus is also on imaginary, cultural, political and social spaces and the ways they overlap.

For 10 days concerts, club sets, AV-performances, installations, screenings and debates will throw light on current issues around music brewed and bubbling in the melting pot: oblique underground, Leftfield music, radical Noise, media culture, Improv, New Music, visual arts and club sounds.

about liquid space

"Liquid Space" is a series of collaborative design sessions, developed over the last three years by the

Belgian media arts laboratory, LAb[au], to create immersive and interactive spatial audio-visuals. The event is international in character, with stopovers to date in Seoul, Brussels, Amsterdam and Rotterdam, and offers a platform for interdisciplinary design processes and creative exchange between musicians, artists, designers, researchers and inventors.

The topic of the collaborative design sessions is designing spatial audiovisuals, or in short: how to produce an artwork where sound and visuals merge through to the concept of "space". Thus movie making techniques, sound design and architectural structural practices come together.

"Liquid Space 05" at CTM.07 will take place in the Ballhaus Naunynstrasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg within an experiment-station made of a 360°-multiscreen-panorama-projection and a surround-audio-system. It comprises a 12-day workshop for selected participants as well as public events with presentations by members of LAb[au] and participating artists, and an exchange session, to which anyone interested can bring along his/her own gear and join in to experiment within the workshop environment.

The basis for new works to be developed during the design session will be the software environment space navigable music" developed by LAb[au]. This software synchronizes the rendering performance of a number of computers to create audio-visual electronic 3d-spaces, through which one can navigate in real time. In this sense, "Liquid Space" proposes rather a space- than time-based logic of visual and sonic media.

participants

Frank Bretschneider (DE)
Patric Cremer (DE)
Thorsten Fleisch (DE)

Xavier Gazon (BE)
HC Gilje (NO)
Jannis Kilian Kreft (DE)
Holger Lippmann (DE)
Marie-Laure Plougastel (FR)
Timm Ringewaldt (DE)
Marius Watz (NO)

lqs05 program

PUBLIC EVENTS
// LABAPERO #1
> TUE 23/01 > 20-22:00 > BN
Exchange and presentations / Austausch und Präsentationen
20:00-21:00 LAb[au] (lecture)
21:00-21:30 Frank Bretschneider (lecture)
21:30-22:00 Marius Watz (lecture)
22:00-22:30 Patric Cremer & Marie Plougastel (lecture)
Admission free.

// LABAPERO #2
> MON 29/01 > 20-22:00 > BN
Exchange and presentations / Austausch und Präsentationen
20:00-21:00 LAb[au] (lecture)
21:00-21:30 HC Gilije (lecture)
21:30-22:00 Jan-Peter Sonntag (lecture)
22:00-22:30 Sven Koenig (lecture)

// PLUG & PLAY
> TUE 30/01 > 10-20:00 > BN
Exchange session, open to everyone, bring your own gear and experiment.

// LAB[AU]/ LQS05 RESULTS
> FRI 02/02 > 20-22:30 > BN
Presentations by members of LAb[au] and participants of the workshop.

// LAB[AU]/ LQS05 RESULTS
> SAT 03/02 > 20-22:30 > BN
Presentations by members of LAb[au] and participants of the workshop.