Sonic Topologies, by Various Artists

Sonic Topologies

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1.	Christian Zehnder – Embrional Stream 07:12	buy track
2.	Saadet Türköz – Exhibition of the Voice 07:42	buy track
3.	Jen Reimer & Max Stein – Lyren 07:53	buy track
4.	Aio Frei & Franziska Koch – Listening With – Exercise Body-Earthing 01:45	buy track
5.	Tomoko Sauvage – Waterbowls Live at Lyren 07:04	buy track
6.	Li Tavor – Where is you and how am I to them (Long Version) 18:44	buy track
7.	Perila – Fading Sky 03:26	buy track
8.	Aio Frei & Franziska Koch – Listening With – Exercise Immediate Surrounding/Impact 01:52	buy track
9.	Patricia Jäggi – Dawn Chorus of an Urban Island 05:52	buy track
10.	Rok Šturm & Juan López – Vibroscape of the Old Botanical Garden 05:57	buy track
11.	Banu Çiçek Tülü – While Rain Drops On The Lake (Long Version) 18:02	buy track
12.	Aio Frei & Franziska Koch – Listening With – Exercise Ancestral Listening/Positionality 01:07	buy track
13.	Fabian Gutscher – Boat Piece II 05:41	buy track
14.	Camille Emaille & Julian Sartorius – Drum Duo on Two Boats 05:55	buy track
15.	Aio Frei & Franziska Koch - Listening With – Exercise Transtemporal Listening 02:14	buy track
16.	Nicola di Croce – What just happened back there (digital bonus) 07:23	buy track
17.	Mélia Roger – Intimacy of lichens (digital bonus) 05:25	buy track
18.	Magda Drozd & Salomé Voegelin – Herbal Auditions (work in progress, digital bonus) 15:11	buy track
19.	Nadine Schütz – Singing Trees (digital bonus) 40:33	buy track
20.	Olga Kokcharova – Drifting Soundwalk (digital bonus) 19:58	buy track
21.	Aio Frei & Franziska Koch – Listening With – Exercise Breath/Certainty of knowing (digital bonus) 00:41	buy track

about

How many ways are there to listen to a place? “Sonic Topologies” presents a wide range of sonic research in Zurich’s urban landscape—underground and above ground, underwater and on the water. The project explores the sounds and acoustics of an empty reservoir, a botanical garden, a thermal bath, and a lake. In June 2022, thirty sound artists, architects and researchers developed concerts, talks, walks and workshops for these places. Their contributions reveal hidden and overlooked sounds and voices; the artists and scientists make spaces vibrate, shift their contexts, and connect them to distant locations and times; they enable encounters across species and disciplinary boundaries. With its manifold methods and instruments, the project not only reveals different aspects and potentials of the sites, but also offers a versatile toolbox for sonic landscape research which we compiled in the form of a glossary of texts and photographs, as well as two vinyl records.

The first LP opens with acoustic stimulations of the empty reservoir chambers. Long reverberating vocal improvisations by Christian Zehnder and Saadet Türköz are followed by resonant instrumental pieces for horn and electronics by Canadian duo Reimer & Stein and Tomoko Sauvage's water bowls. The following pieces activate the Käferberg thermal bath with speakers both in and above water. A synthesizer composition by architect and composer Li Tavor makes the different speeds of sound audible, while Perila's ambient piece immerses us in an intimate world of vocal and harmonic waves.
The second LP introduces the fauna and flora of the botanical garden: A chronological montage by sound anthropologist Patricia Jäggi traces the morning birds in spring. Laser recordings of the biologists Juan López & Rok Śturm reveal the hidden vibrational world of summer insects. An electronic piece by Banu Çiçek Tülü tells us the history of botanical plants. The five digital bonus tracks explore further the different layers of the garden as well as its surroundings. The record closes with live performances on the lake: Fabian Gutscher rows a boat with underwater piano wires, and Emaille & Sartorius play a drum duo on two moving boats, disappearing into the acoustic horizon of the lake. Sound exercises by the duo Frei & Koch at the end of each side invite the listeners to explore their own environment and dimensions of listening.

(Ludwig Berger)

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released December 12, 2023

Project curated by Ludwig Berger

Publication and records: Ludwig Berger (text and sound editing, mixing, mastering), Johannes Berger (photography), Atlas Studio (design), Attila Faravelli (sound recording), Marjeta Morinc (image editing), Lara Mehling (text correction). «Listening With» exercises: voice by Izidora l LETHE, track C4 co-written with Cannach MacBride, complete original site-specific work available on aiofrei.net

Festival team: Ludwig Berger (curation, booking and fundraising), Nicholas Schärer (management, production and fundraising), Fabian Gutscher (production and sound tech), Johannes Rebsamen (production and hospitality), Andalus Liniger (production and sound tech), Matteo Marangione (research and assistance), Michael HoiMing Du (sound tech), Tillo Spreng (video documentation), Nomads Zurich (catering)
Staff and assistants: Ella Esslinger, Sophia Garner, Dennis Häusler, Fujan Fahmi, Isabelle Fehlmann, Jennifer, Julian Fischbacher, Fabienne Girsberger, Magda Kaufmann, Juliette Martin, Antonina Nikolic, Luisa Overath, Emanuel Pulfer, Isabel Prado Caro, Gereon Siévi, Ansgar Stadler, Dominic Tálos, Christopher Tibaldo, Myriam Uzor, Matthias Vollmer

This project was made possible with the support of ETH Zurich (Chair of Christophe Girot, D-ARCH, NSL), Pro Helvetia, Kulturförderung Kanton Zürich, SNF Scientific Exchanges, Fondation Nestlé pour l’Art, Stiftung Temperatio, Popkredit Stadt Zürich, Fondation Suisa, Albert Huber-Stiftung, Cassinelli-Vogel-Stiftung, National Foundation of Arts and Culture (Taiwan), BSLA, Genossenschaft Kalkbreite, Old Botanical Garden and Ethnographic Museum (University of Zurich), and Wasserversorgung Stadt Zürich. A special thanks to Christophe Girot for the trust and generosity.

Realized at the Chair of Landscape Architecture of Christophe Girot
Landscape Visualization and Modeling Lab (LVML)
Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS)
Department of Architecture (D-ARCH)
ETH Zurich

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Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies Zürich, Switzerland

Chair of Christophe Girot, Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich.

We understand sound as a primary element of the spatial structure and aesthetic quality of a landscape. Combining experimental fieldwork with a 3D-sound laboratory setting, we analyze, remodel and recompose sonic spaces.

Team: Ludwig Berger, Fabian Gutscher, Dennis Häusler, Johannes Rebsamen, Matthias Vollmer ... more

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