The short version
- A two-week sound show in Berlin, opening November 5, is built from short-range radio, repurposed antennas and field recordings.
- One work broadcasts three tiny FM stations that visitors tune in on headphones, drawn from an archive of radar and telecommunications work.
- The show treats noise as part of the meeting between listener and sound, not as interference to filter out.
To listen is to be at the encounter with an other, subtitled “a gathering of sonic counter-cartographies”, opens at BARDO Projektraum in Berlin on Thursday, November 5 at 19:00 and runs to November 20, Wednesday to Saturday, 14:00 to 19:00. Ale Borea’s Listening Post sends out three short-range FM transmissions that visitors pick up on a radio receiver and headphones, built from the artist’s grandfather’s archive of radar and telecommunications work. Kika Echeverría’s Tiny dots began to emerge plays archival radio broadcasts through repurposed antennas and speakers. Javier Vargas shows a triptych of painting, experimental speakers and a kinetic instrument, and Eli Wewentxu brings field recordings and compositions from the landscapes of Wallmapu.
The curators, Helga Elsner Torres, Pablo Santacana López and Vicente Barriga, write that “rather than treating noise as interference, the exhibition understands it as an essential condition of encounter.” There is an artist talk on November 7, a video screening on the 14th, an acoustic performance by Wewentxu with bungalovv on the 19th (suggested donation €10) and a closing listening set on the 20th.
The organiser’s page gives no street address or entry price, so check with Karne Kunst before you go.
