program
Tue Sept 27, 22
ESSEN
15:00
Free Sound Territories
Lecture Performance: Friedhelm Hartmann & Heinz-Josef Florian with Javier Garavaglia, Balázs Kovács and Josef Sprinzak
(Galerie Gublia)
19:30
Portrait XO
Wire
(Rabbit Hole Theater)
20:30
Angelo Repetto
Into the Unknown
(Rabbit Hole Theater)
Wed Sept 28, 22
GELSENKIRCHEN
from 18:00
Laues Berauschen
Installation of Achim Zepezauer
(EXP Sondervitrine)
from 18:30
Forest & Sound
10 Sound Art Productions (Kurz.Kollektiv)
19:30
Kai Niggemann
transADC
(Hier ist nicht da)
20:30
Corgiat & Akasha:
Antropo Amorfo
(Hier ist nicht da)
Thr Sept 29, 22
HERNE
19:30
Sturmherta:
VRA_peek
(Alter Wartesaal)
20:30
Helm
Live
(Alter Wartesaal)
21:30
Aua & Angst
DJ Set
(Alter Wartesaal)
Fri Sept 30, 22
ESSEN
17:00
Radical Transducers
Open Sound Hacklab Performance
Direction: Peter Kirn
(Gitter Raum)
19:30
Karabasan Drane
Jin Mustafa / Robin Smeds Matilla Live
(Casa Bühne)
20:15
Chagall
Advaita
(Casa Box)
21:00
Timo Hoogland
Liber Abaci
(Casa Bühne)
tuesday | september 27, 2022 | essen
Virtual Sound Journeys
Blaues Rauschen starts the festival week with the Virtual Sound Journeys. Located between the art world, unconventional theater and performance, the Gublia Gallery and the Rabbit Hole Theater in Essen form a creative architecture for acoustic expeditions. Whether the free sound territories initiated by Friedhelm Hartmann, Portrait XO‘s duets with AI-generated audio data or Angelo Repetto‘s trips between futuristic wave, acid and krautrock: Blue Noise leads into the data frenzy! A journey into virtual sound worlds, where you encounter hypersound touchpoints in the World Wide Web, get lost between artificial bots and human voice, to finally resurface in a cosmic music world of experimental avantgarde.
Galerie Gublia
Kreuzeskirchstraße 3
45127 Essen
15:00
Free Sound Territories
Lecture performance / virtual composition workshop of Friedhelm Hartmann and Heinz-Jürgen Florian with Javier Garavaglia, Balázs Kovács and Josef Sprinzak.
Admission: free
Tickets available online only
Rabbit Hole Theater
Viehofer Platz 19
45127 Essen
19:30
Portrait XO
Wire
20:30
Angelo Repetto
Into the Unknown
Admission: € 10,- /reduced € 7,-
Tickets available online only
wednesday | september 28, 2022
Environments of Sonic Material
Traces of past industrial culture buzz through Gelsenkirchen-Ückendorf ́s Bochumer Straße. Whether physical or sonic material – everything circulates, is part of transformation and forms environment. Tonight Blaues Rauschen 2022 is dedicated to the Environments of Sonic Material. The audience is incouraged to shuttle between HIER IST NICHT DA, the [kuʃ] and the EXP Sondervitrine. In the ambience of the queer-feminist kurz.kollektiv – the ,,105‘‘- we encounter a world of composed sound collages between forest&sound, whereas the EXP Sondervitrine – at the ,,139‘‘- asks questions about perceived temperature and climate with Achim Zepezauer‘s installation. Full of atmospheric and suggestive energy, we land in HIER IST NICHT DA, where Kai Niggemann uses analogue and digital means to make transformation processes audible and Corgiat & Akasha use extreme manipulation to search for the points of contact between the ephemeral and the tangible world.
EXP Sondervitrine
Bochumer Straße 139
45886 Gelsenkirchen
from 18:00
Laues Berauschen
Installation of Achim Zepezauer.
Admission: free
Tickets available online only
Kurz.Kollektiv
Bochumer Straße 105
45886 Gelsenkirchen
from 18:30
Forest & Sound
Sound art project with 10 international composers.
Admission: free
Tickets available online only
Hier ist nicht da
Bochumer Straße 138
45886 Gelsenkirchen
19:30
Kai Niggemann
transADC
20:30
Corgiat & Akasha
Antropo Amorfo
Admission: € 10,- /reduced € 7,-
Tickets available online only
thursday | september 29, 2022
Connections amidst the infrastructure
The Alte Wartesaal in Herne is the ideal location for Connections amidst the infrastructure. Interfaces and encounters are investigated in the station building, a hub for the most diverse forms of movement. The aim is to give space to a complexity of diverse realities of life and to make them perceptible: Sturmherta searches for the connections between number, image and sound data and creates a live performance in which the sound is generated exclusively from images. Helm is dedicated to a structure of chaos – everyday sound surfaces surrounding us are brought together with hypnotic tangles and opacities; boundaries are amplified and questioned. In the end, sound networks and moves the intrastructures lying in space and creates new relationalities. aua&angst reminds us of the fragility of subjective being in a DJ set and leads us into the night with a sensitive mix of electronic hybrids and warming sounds.
Alter Wartesaal
Bahnhofsplatz 5
44629 Herne
Admission: € 10,- /reduced € 7,-
Tickets available online only
friday | september 30, 2022
Frictions in uncanny familiarity
The last day of this year‘s festival brings us back to familiar areas of the city of Essen. In the Gitter Raum, Peter Kirn‘s Radical transducers await us: the open sound performance of this year‘s collaborative hacklab, in which a wide range of experts tested transformative forces of transformation over several days. Frictions between body and digitality, between communication and collaboration and sound. Karabasan Drane also create situations of uncanny familiarity. Hypnotic drone visions made of manipulated field recordings, synthesizers and lo-fi sound sources unsettle the Casa-Theater. With her project Advaita_, Chagall focuses on further frictions between body and virtuality. Live, she lets avatars dance with her motion- capture suit and sensor technology and performance find each other with MiMU Gloves. Finally, we follow Timo Hoogland‘s encounters with Mercury, a live coding between algorithmic language, code, basslines, sampling and dance music.
Let‘s come together in the immediacy of the sonic, challenge the (un)familiar and also gain familiarity from the (un)secret, let‘s sink together into Blaues Rauschen 2022!
Gitter Raum
Viehhofer Platz 17-18
45127 Essen
17:00
Radical Transducers
Live presentation of the Hack-Lab with Peter Kirn and participants from the region.
Admission: € 5,-
Tickets available online only
Casa Bühne / Box
Theaterplatz 11
45127 Essen
19:30
Karabasan Drane (Casa Bühne)
Jin Mustafa / Robin Smeds Matilla Live
20:15
Chagall (Box)
Advaita
21:00
Timo Hoogland (Casa Bühne)
Liber Abaci
Admission: € 15,- /reduced € 11,-
Tickets available online only