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 31-01-10 | 19.00 'till 00.00 | DE PLAYER | Multi | 6,00 euro
COM.POST #12 - Melle Smets (nl) = SOLD OUT!!!

SORRY, THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT!!!
 
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DE PLAYER presents Sunday 31 January, 19.00 hrs


COM.POST # 12 / Melle Smets (nl)

"Regiogeluiden" [Area Sounds]


"Regiogeluiden" [Area Sounds] is an entire evening devoted to lectures, sound experiments, and stories about the possibilities, functions and boundaries of sound in our everyday lives. The show is the result of "hard kijken" or a "experience research" study that was performed by Melle Smets and will be presented at the dining table!
(more info below!)


start program: 19.00 hrs
entrance (dinner included!): 6 €
RSVP!!! only 30 seats available!!
info@deplayer.nl or 010.7370472


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In a world where people are mobile and spend most of their time in an urban environment, we are becoming increasingly dependent on traffic signs and city maps. Besides these visual aids, distinctive buildings can also help orient us in this environment. But does a city also have distinctive sounds that help us find our bearings? For instance, can you actually hear Rotterdam? And if so, do these sounds help us feel at home in the city where we live?

Melle Smets, through his deep search research study has effectively re-learned how to see, not with his eyes but with his ears. Blind people from the Rotterdam area guided Smets blindfolded through the city. The presentation will be performed at the dining table wich is tuned by Gerben Kokmeijer (student Sonologie The Hague). Kees Went, sounddesigner, will set the theoretical framework for approaching sound in public space. Elske Revelman de Vries will present three ear prosthesis based on the militairy audioradars from the early 20th century and Peter Altena will show us his ‘soundalbum’ about one of his trips abroad. In between these info-moments, audiofragments of interviews and remarkable soundfiles, results of Melle's most recent research, will be added and mixed. As a real radio host, Melle Smets, is turning the dinning table into his studio and making us his radio-audience.

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The "hard kijken" research consisted of interviews with experts from a variety of disciplines including scientists, artists, designers, and experience experts (from the Afrikaanderwijk).

The interviewees:
- Merlijn Twaalfhoven (Composer)
- Mat Wijn (Sound artist)
- Kees Went (Researcher and sound designer)
- Desiree Geysen (I Experience Foundation)
- Mevrouw Spaanderman (Maasveld Nursinghome)
- Gülistan Altintas (‘t Klooster Service Center)
- Riek Westerhof (Klank Foundation)
- Peter Altena (Manager TNT blind for several years)
- Hans Smit (Lawyer and born blind)





HARD KIJKEN =
By approaching your environment from the angle of learning to contemplate about what you actually see leads you to a new way of witnessing your environment beyond mere everyday phenomena. "Hard kijken" or "experience research" flirts, questions, pushes and pulls on the stubborn habit expressed in a old saying: "How we present the world is how we understand it." The focus here is on the landscape's values that are difficult to measure, such as cultural values and the zeitgeist. These values are impossible to express in terms of facts and figures. They can, however, be expressed through stories, memories, experiences and uninhibited observations. These values give meaning to a specific place and create a context in which we can bond with our surroundings.
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ABOUT COM.POST

COM.POST is an exploration into the current state of affairs in the field of composed sound by invited artists, filmmakers, composers, scientists, architects and performers.
Analysis areas are sound in contemporary composed music, public space/architecture/urban planning/chaos, staging and the spectacle/opera.

With COM.POST we’re searching for the compositional statement which has, within the completely stage-managed society in which we live, at the very least a disquieting effect.

participants among others:
HILARY JEFFERY (gb), EUGENE MARCELISSEN (nl), BARBARA ELLISON (ir), RODERIK DE MAN (nl), JAN KONINGS (nl), MELLE SMETS (nl), BMB CON. (gb/nl) JAN VAN DEN DOBBELSTEEN (nl), PAUL GRANJON (fr/uk), ERGO PHIZMIZZ (gb), FEEDBACK AND DISASTER (at)

COM.POST is for sale at our venue or our webshop.

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SUPPORT

COM.POST is financially supported by Mondriaan Foundation, City of Rotterdam Department of Culture, Nederlands Fonds voor Podiumkunsten+,
Pact op Zuid, Stichting ter bevordering van Volkskracht and Vestia.

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