Reviewing

Friction

Sofy Yuditskaya, Monica Rocha, Johannes Sistermanns, Hans Tammen

June 26th, 2022 – Time: 3 pm

Location: Building 9, Nolan Park, Governors Island

FREE –

Facebook event:  https://fb.me/e/5peGmVIJ6

Harvestworks is pleased to partner with the Institute for Public Architecture to present an experimental audio visual performance by Sofy Yuditskaya, Monica Rocha, Johannes Sistermanns and Hans Tammen who come together for the sake of the sound and the silences in between the sounds. It is about architecture and how we relate to it and each other within it.

Using the Block Building #9 on Governors Island as a musical instrument, the artists will activate the first floor room and explore how they relate to it and each other within it. It’s about listening and being present in the moment. Friction is a cue to listen more deeply. We don’t always want to know the motivations behind every move. And yet: we are curious about what provokes each action, each sound, sculpture, body surrounding emptiness. Breaking out of it, like a crash, falling back into silence, unmoving. Network, intensity, authenticity, simple frame, noise, listening floors
 time is too short for us to break off after 45 minutes. EnTsemble always meets again, somewhere else, hearing grass grow.

BIOS

Sofy Yuditskaya is a site-specific media artist and educator working with sound, video, interactivity, projections, code, paper, and salvaged material. Monica Rocha is an artist who works in photography, performance, and sound. Johannes Sistermanns stages his compositions as media/electroacoustic performances, soundplastic, radioart, music theatre and urban environment. Hans Tammen is just another worker in rhythms, frequencies and intensities, and likes to set sounds in motion, then sitting back to watch the movements unfold.

The Institute for Public Architecture uses design to challenge social and physical inequities in the city.We address urgent issues of design and policy by mobilizing our network of activists, professionals, government officials and community stakeholders. The IPA’s collaborative process involves a focused design residency and related programs. Thanks to Alec Rovensky.

Sofy Yuditskaya


Sofy Yuditskaya is a site-specific media artist and educator working with sound, video, interactivity, projections, code, paper, and salvaged material. Her work focuses on techno-occult rituals, street performance, and participatory art. Sofy’s performances enact and reframe hegemonies, she works with materials that exemplify our deep entanglement with petro-culture and technology’s affect on consciousness. She has worked on projects at Eyebeam, 3LD, the Netherlands Institute voor Media Kunst, Steim, ARS Electronica, Games for Learning Institute, The Guggenheim (NYC), The National Mall and has taught at GAFFTA, MoMA, NYU, Srishti, and the Rubin Museum. She is a PhD Candidate in Audio-Visual Composition at NYU GSAS.

Monica Rocha

Monica Rocha is an artist who works in photography, performance, and
sound.

Johannes Sistermanns

Born in Cologne, Germany Johannes Sistermanns studied Piano (Klaus Runze), Rhythmik (H.
Leiser) and Composition/New Music Theater (Mauricio Kagel) between 1976 and 1984. He
lived in Vanarasi in 1979 (studying North Indian singing at Banares Hindu
University), obtained a PhD in musicology, lived in Paris from 1991-92 (where he met
Luc Ferrari), in New York from 1995–96 (The Tao of Voice method with S. Cheng), in
Japan in 2001, and in Australia. From 1997-2010 he was Vice-President of DEGEM
(German Society for Electroacoustic Music). His work encompasses installative sound
sculptures, audio plays and electroacoustic compositions for 2–8/43 loudspeakers
(Sound Dome at ZKM, Karlsruhe) up to 2704 loudspeakers for wave field synthesis (TU
Berlin), live satellite/Internet/ sound performance, graphic notation and
instrumental compositions. Concerts, Performances, Exhibitions, Lectures,
Residencies and Grants lead him to Japan, Australia, US, China and widely in Europe.
International Festivals: Knitting Factory New York 1995, EXPO 2000 World Exhibition
Hannover, Donaueschinger Musiktage 1996/1999/2005/2016, ISCM World Music Days
Switzerland 2004/Stuttgart2006/Sydney 2010, International Summercourse for New Music
Darmstadt 2004/06/12 (+ Lecturer, Ultraschall Berlin 2008, Melbourne/Adelaide
Festival 1997/2000/2015], Radiostations [WDR Studio Acoustic Art/SWR/HR/DLR/ DLF/ABC
Radio Sydney/Kunstradio ORF Wien]. Grants [Kunststiftung/ Kultusministerium/
Filmstiftung NRW DĂŒsseldorf, Japan Foundation Tokyo, ZKM Karlsruhe]. Prix/Awards:
[Karl-Sczuka-Prix d’encouragement SWR 1997, German Soundart-Prix 2008 WDR Köln,
Skulpturenmuseum Marl].Awards include the 1997 Karl Sczuka Advancement Award (SWR),
2008 German Sound Art Prize (WDR Cologne, Marl Sculpture Museum), 2015 3. Prix
PRESQUE RIEN, Paris (Luc Ferrari) and first prize at the 2016 International
Composition Competition “Leibniz Harmonien” 2016.

Hans Tammen

​​Hans Tammen creates sounds that have been described as an alien world
of bizarre textures and a journey through the land of unending sonic operations. He
produces rapid-fire juxtapositions of radically contrastive and fascinating noises,
with micropolyphonic timbres and textures, aggressive sonic eruptions, but also
quiet pulses and barely audible sounds. Signal To Noise called his guitar works “
a
killer tour de force of post-everything guitar damage”, All Music Guide recommended
him: “
clearly one of the best experimental guitarists to come forward during the
1990s.” He currently plays an analog modular synthesizer built around chaotic
behaviors, where small changes in the settings may yield widely diverging sonic and
rhythmic changes, forcing the player to constantly rethink and rearrange music. Hans
Tammen’s numerous projects include site-specific performances and collaborative
efforts with dance, light, video, and theatre, utilizing technology from planetarium
projectors to guitar robots and disklavier pianos. He received a Fellowship from the
New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) in the category Digital/Electronic Arts in
2009 for the ”Endangered Guitar” – a hybrid guitar/software instrument used to
control interactive live sound processing. His THIRD EYE ORCHESTRA open form
compositions for large ensembles and live sound processing, or laptop/electronic
ensembles, are inspired by Earle Brown’s Available Forms, and based on numerous
scored “building blocks” that are constantly rearranged when performed. His works
have been presented on festivals in the US, Canada, Mexico, Russia, India, South
Africa and all over Europe. He recorded on labels such as Innova, ESP-DISK,
Nur/Nicht/Nur, Creative Sources, Leo Records, Potlatch, Cadence, and Hybrid. Hans
Tammen received grants and composer commissions from MAPFund, Mid-Atlantic Arts
Foundation, American Music Center, Chamber Music America, New York State Council On
The Arts (NYSCA), New York Foundation For The Arts (NYFA), American Composers Forum
w/ Jerome Foundation, New York State Music Fund, Goethe Institute w/ Foreign Affairs
Office, among others.