GLOBALE: Next City Sounds

The program of the symposium focuses on current perspectives of acoustic urban planning.

More than half of the world today lives in cities; designing urban living spaces is becoming increasingly relevant. Up to now, visual criteria have been crucial for town planning decision processes, while sound potentials on the other hand are not used adequately. The symposium deals with the question of which sound design options can have a positive effect on the quality of life in cities.

A transdisciplinary discourse is suggested for this: Specific aspects of the perception of sound in urban space are discussed on the basis of current methods and results from the field of research of sound studies and psychoacoustics. Urban planners, architects and acousticians will also present approaches of urban sound design and town planning incorporating the latest technology. Sound artists and musicians are presenting works, in which urban sound environments are the focus. The ZKM | Institute for Music and Acoustics (IMA) will also present a newly developed web applications, on the basis of which future sound scenarios can be designed by users.

The symposium addresses both scientists and urban planners, as well as sound artists and musicians, who incorporate site-specific aspects into their work. The speakers will be Sven Anderson, Sam Auinger, Seckin Basturk, Peter Cusack, Dorothea Kalogianni, Thomas Kusitzky, Francisco López, Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp, Valerio Signorelli and ZKM | Institute for Music and Acoustics.

Program

Friday, 11.12.2015
	Session I (10 am–1 pm)
10 am	Sven Anderson	What We Talk About When We Talk About Sound
11 am	Thomas Kusitzky	Cultivating the city sound
12 pm	Francisco López	Sound Matter Cities
1 pm	Soundwalk with Lasse-Marc Riek (registration required under soundwalk@zkm.de)
Session II (3 pm–5 pm)
3 pm	Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp	Soundscape Project – Nauener Platz, Berlin / COST Project TD0804
5 pm	Peter Cusack	Berlin Sonic Places
Sound dome concert (from 8 pm) Online tickets
	Luc Ferrari	Presque Rien
	Antje Vowinckel	Ferrari entre
	Thomas Gerwin	Karlsruhe – Klangbilder einer Stadt
	ZKM | IMA	Next City Sounds Hörstück
	Yannick Hofmann	Grassroots Probes (UA)
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Saturday, 12.12.2015
Session III (10 am–1 pm)
10 am	Seckin Basturk	The Use of Virtual Reality Technology in Noise Action Planning
11 am	Dorothea Kalogianni	EEG and the city sonic landscape
12 pm	Valerio Signorelli	Re-modulated frequencies. Broad interdisciplinarity and everyday experiences in sonic studies
Session IV (2:30 pm–6:30 pm)
2:30 pm	Sam Auinger	Sonic Commons
3:30 pm	ZKM | Institute for Music and Acoustics	Next City Sounds
4:30 pm	Panel discussion
Live performance (from 9 pm) Online tickets
	Francisco López
	Klara Lewis
	John Chantler