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the neture – series

Starting point for the neture – series was Jan Hendrik Brueggemeier’s master (German university diploma) project at the chair for Experimental Radio at the Bauhaus University in Weimar (2004) called: nEture

‘nEture Catalogue’ Leipzig / Weimar
the Electronic Picnic performance in Leipzig
Followed up by
the radical connector(s) 01 conference in Weimar and
the RADIOSAUNA performance in Bergen.

nEture was an artistic study of medial and architectural interventions in urban planning using the example of Leipzig-Plagwitz in Germany.

Intention was to initiate media practices in a neighbourhood context in times of shrinking common public life in a city. It aimed to demonstrate that this differs from the usual approach taken by local authorities wishing to improve the image of the city without heeding to the need for a vital communication, which is itself crucial if sustainable development is to be achieved.

The nEture catalogue is the documentation of the diploma project and contains a radio feature (89’50″) including interviews with artists, architects and theorists like

as well as sound design from Jan Hendrik Brueggemeier and pingfm.

nEture has been presented as side others at the Westend-Festival in Leipzig 2005.

Tags: city, cloud, collaborations, communication, independent, internet, media activism, radio, remix, research, scenography, soundscape, telecommunication, territories, theatre, things, thinking

From Sound to Waves to Territories

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From Sound to Waves to Territories

“Perhaps last traces of human existence will be radio waves beamed into space, travelling distances before they dissolve into noise.”
Curtis Roads in Micro-Sound

“Perhaps last traces of radio waves [are] human existence beamed into space travelling distances before they dissolve into noise.”
Jan Hendrik Brueggemeier – From Sound to Waves to Territories

From Sound to Waves to Territories” is Jan Hendrik Brueggemeier’s creative PhD project (2010 -2014) at La Trobe University, Melbourne.

Tags: city, cloud, collaborations, communication, community, experience, internet, media activism, performance, play, radio, remix, research, scenography, soundscape

Mediate Europe

The New Media panel of the final HERMES conference (5-8 Oct 2006): Heritage and New Media – Contributing towards Integration and Regional Development.

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Programme:

The background of this workshop is the evaluation of the concrete work of the “Heritage Radio Network” over the passed two years.

Main concerns of this workshop are:
- What are possible models of online journalism on a European level?
- Which coalitions can be shared in the cultural field?
- If there are modes for a European journalism, how does one address a European target group?
- Which media, which formats and which languages are favored here?

The Panel is conceived and organised by Jan Hendrik Brueggemeier, coordinator of the Heritage Radio Network.

website: www.heritageradio.net

The Heritage Radio Network is a part of the EU-project HERMES. “HERMES” stands for Cultural Heritage and New Media for sustainable Develpoment. It was funded by the Interreg III B (Cadses). The Classic Foundation Weimar has been the HERMES leadpartner. website:

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WORKSHOP SESSION

Anna Riepe (policy consultant, Brussels / B)
EU cultural politics as a black box? Some insights to policies and funding

Douglas Arellanes (Media Development Loan Fund // CAMP, Prague / CZ)
Criteria and examples of sustainable (new) media work in Europe

Thorsten Schilling (German Federal Agency for Civic Education, Berlin / D)
European Journalism for journalists and who else?

~~ first resume and short coffee break ~~

Pierre-Yves Tribolet (European Broadcasting Union, EBU)
Cultural bridges built by Public radios. How does it work backstage?

Uta Thofern (Deutsche Welle, Bonn / D)
Deutsche Welle in the age of Internet and new media

Hatto Fischer (Poiein kai Prattein, Athens / GR)
From ‘GO ON’ to Heritageradio – a simple reflection of the development of audiences via Internet

~~ second resume and short coffee break ~~

Dirk de Wit (Initiative for Audiovisual Art, IAK, Brussels / B)
What is the next level? – evaluation of the HRN

~~ final discussion round ~~

Tags: communication, community, dialogue, europe, internet, journalism, radio

Liturgy for Radio

The Circle is red

An interactive installation composed of Light, Words and Sound based on the diaries and private letters of Oskar Schlemmer

On stage Oskar Schlemmer brought the painting in motion. His costume designs and space compositions taught the abstract form language of painting to jump and run. With the Bauhaus artist Oskar Schlemmer the theatre found connection with the artistic avantgarde of that time. The diarist Schlemmer is a witty and seismographic observer of a nervous epoch between the world wars aside from propaganda and party lines. He reveals his uncertainess, his doubts as modern protagonist at the breaking point of tradition and innovation.

The Circle is red is an interactive light and sound installation. The project was conceived and dramaturgically supervised by Jan Hendrik Brüggemeier. The listening environment by Ulrike Haage is based on the letters and diaries of Oskar Schlemmer. The Circle is red was produced for the Crash!Boom!Bau! Festival at the Nalepa Studios in Berlin. In this radio play the actors Leslie Malton and Gerd Wameling perform as the speaking voices. The light designer Mattjakob dal Pozzo created a versatile spatial light zone, with which he will live interact during the performance.

“The Circle is red”, quote: Oskar Schlemmer, diary Octobre 1923

Artists

composition/radio play: Ulrike Haage (D)
concept/dramaturgy: Jan H. Brüggemeier (D)
light design: Matt Jakob dal Pozzo (I/GB)
voice/radio play: Leslie Malton (US/D)
voice/radio play: Gerd Wameling (D)
sound engineer: Philipp Reitberger (D)

with the friendly support of U. Jaïna Schlemmer and C. Raman Schlemmer, Oggebbio, Italy
(The Oskar Schlemmer Theatre Estate)

photo credit: Anke Neugebauer
For promotional and educational usage only, out of copyright reasons without sound:

Tags: Bauhaus, interactive, light, music, new media, radio, scenography, stage, theatre, words

RADIOSAUNA .. (don’t strip your clothes, unzip your communication!)

graphics: Daniel Guischard

For the Meteor-Festival in Bergen, Jan Hendrik Brueggemeier produced the RADIOSAUNA performance together with the architect Daniel Guischard.

The RADIOSAUNA is an art installation for the public space and a common hotspot for social interaction and exchange in the city.

A mobile sauna (Finnish style) was positioned on a public square close to the harbour in Bergen, Norway. The sauna was equipped with microphones inside. The conversations inside and the atmospheric noises of the public sauna sessions were transmitted live on the local radio and online.

The RADIOSAUNA aimed to explore the similarities as well as the contradictions that unfold today in our distinction of the local and the global and the private and the public.

It combined the experience of traditional social places like the bathhouse or the sauna with the modern means of telecommunication and new media. It offered one possible notion of what a neighbourhood community action could feel like in the beginning of the 21st Century.

A playlist of audio snippets from the RADIOSAUNA sessions

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Single bits of audio from the RADIOSAUNA sessions

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# Singing -

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# Poetry round -

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Tags: architecture, communication, neture, new media, performance, radio, sauna

The Buchenwald Series

The Buchenwald memorial place is located at the former Nazi Concentration Camp “KZ Buchenwald” in Weimar, Germany. The ‘Buchenwald series‘ includes two works by Jan Hendrik Brueggemeier for cultural projects commissioned by the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, as well as one radio contribution to the EU projects Heritage Radio Network (HRN) online magazine:

• Es ist hier eine andere Welt – This here is a different World (2005) – a 4 channel audio installation for the travelling exhibition The Engineers of the ‘Final Solution’. Topf & Sons – Builders of the Auschwitz Ovens
• Optimistic Disease Facility (2003) – sound design and music for the documentary film about the fine artist Boris Lurie, a co-founder of the art movement NO!Art and Nazi concentration camp prisoner
• Are Museums just digging in the Past? The Buchenwald Memorial – about current-history memorial work in Germany (2005) – including interviews -beside others- with: Rikola-Gunnar Luettgenau, Director of the Buchenwald Memorial, Curator of “Topf & Sons: The Engineers of the ‘Final Solution’, the Builder of the Auschwitz-ovens”

Tags: archaeology, memorial, radio, research, sound

Buchenwald memorial place

From the foundation’s regulatory statutes:
“The foundation’s purpose is to preserve the sites of the crimes as sites of mourning and commemoration, to provide these sites with a scientifically founded form and outward appearance and to make them accessible to the public in an appropriate manner, as well as to promote the research of the respective historical occurrences and their conveyance to the public. …

At the Buchenwald Memorial, the history of the Nazi concentration camp is to receive priority within this context. The history of the Soviet internment camp is to be integrated into the scientific and museum work to an appropriate degree. At the Mittelbau-Dora Memorial, special attention is to be devoted to the subject of the exploitation of inmates for the production of weapons of destruction. The history of the two memorials’ political instrumentalisation during the era of the German Democratic Republic is also to be represented. …

The foundation’s obligations include the organisation and realisation of permanent and temporary exhibitions, scientific colloquia and cultural events on the national and international level, the educational guidance of the visitors with a special focus on young people, and scientific documentation, research and publication in connection with the work of the memorial.”

Article 2 of the Thuringian Act providing for the establishment of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation

source: www.buchenwald.de

photo credits: Buchenwald and Mittelbau Dora Memorial Foundation

Tags: archaeology, memorial, radio, research, sound

Es ist hier eine andere Welt – This here is a different World (2005)

Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation

topf & sons, Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation

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(short excerpt of the recorded texts in German)

A 4 channel audio installation which was designed for the travelling exhibition
The Engineers of the ‘Final Solution’. Topf & Sons – Builders of the
Auschwitz Ovens by the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation.

In this work, actors read text fragments from historical documents. The fragments
come either from letters written by the prisoners in the form of secret
messages or from eye-witness reports at boards of enquiry in 1945 and
after. This work was realised by Jan Hendrik Brueggemeier and Ludger Hennig.

The exhibition has been shown at the following places aside others:
Jewish Museum Berlin, City Museum of Erfurt, Ruhrlandmuseum Essen, LWL
Industrial Museum, Ziegeleimuseum in Lage, Documentation Centre at the site of the Nuremberg Rally.

website: www.topfundsoe hne.de

photo credit: Sabeth Stickforth

Tags: archaeology, memorial, radio, research, sound

optimistic disease facility

Jan Hendrik Brueggemeier was commissioned to design the soundtrack for the film ‘optimistic disease facility’.

A documentary film about the fine artist Boris Lurie, a co-founder of the art movement NO!Art and Nazi concentration camp prisoner.
Directed by Naomi Tereza Salmon.
(c) Buchenwald and Mittelbau- Dora Memorials Foundation
English with German subtitles – 58′ 37” – DVD, PAL

From the NO!art website:
“The life and work of Boris Lurie creates a radical, brusque, and at the same time a poetic cosmos. In New York where Lurie lives within his collages, the experience of the Nazi concentration camps seeps through everything. Apartment studio and laboratory all reflect a very personal artistic view of the past which surrounds him in the present.

After meeting the artist Naomi Tereza Salmon (who lives and works in Germany), at Buchenwald during the retrospective exhibition of his works in 1998/99, he gave her permission to document his apartment, studio and storage space. A dialogue developed, covering a range of issues, mainly about the past, about living in New York, about the Palestinian issue, including discussions on Stalin and capitalism.
The film is a result of this encounter, laconically trying to capture the authentic situation, and was made as a low budget project. Considering the fact that Lurie is the founder of the No!art movement, the making of the film is inspired by its manifest, which presents an opposition to american mass culture and to the commercalizing process of art, putting in question the scene of mainstream and pop art, creating a genuine ideological and fundamental aesthetic approach of its own.

The music, which was composed specifically for this purpose by the German music and internet performer Jan Brüggemeier (pingfm – internet radio broadcasting), serves as an adhesive as well as an interpretative component. An examination of the metaphysical space, focusing on the encounter between the two artists and the experiences of each of them with their immediate surrounding takes place. The film offers no answers but presents the questions which arise in it in a clear way for the viewer to reflect on them.”

More information about Naomi T. Salmon

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the neture – series

From Sound to Waves to Territories

“Perhaps last traces of human existence will be radio waves beamed into space, travelling distances before they dissolve into noise.” Curtis Roads in Micro-Sound

“Perhaps last traces of radio waves [are] human existence beamed into space travelling distances before they dissolve into noise.” Jan Hendrik Brueggemeier – From Sound to Waves to Territories

Mediate Europe

The New Media panel of the final HERMES conference (5-8 Oct 2006): Heritage and New Media – Contributing towards Integration and Regional Development.

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Programme:

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WORKSHOP SESSION

Liturgy for Radio

Tuning In Before the Show (Based on Gregory Whiteheads Liturgy for Radio):

The Circle is red

An interactive installation composed of Light, Words and Sound based on the diaries and private letters of Oskar Schlemmer

“The Circle is red”, quote: Oskar Schlemmer, diary Octobre 1923

Artists

RADIOSAUNA .. (don’t strip your clothes, unzip your communication!)

A playlist of audio snippets from the RADIOSAUNA sessions

Single bits of audio from the RADIOSAUNA sessions

The Buchenwald Series

Buchenwald memorial place

Article 2 of the Thuringian Act providing for the establishment of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation

Es ist hier eine andere Welt – This here is a different World (2005)

optimistic disease facility

“Perhaps last traces of human existence will be radio waves beamed into space, travelling distances before they dissolve into noise.”
Curtis Roads in Micro-Sound

“Perhaps last traces of radio waves [are] human existence beamed into space travelling distances before they dissolve into noise.”
Jan Hendrik Brueggemeier – From Sound to Waves to Territories