Sonic Walk: Certain Fragments from a Strumotone Inquiry

Workshop by Valeria Prorizna // LINA Fellows x Forecast

Workshop

In August 1963, Philips introduced its first compact cassette recorder at the  Funkausstellung (Radio Exhibition) in Berlin

© Royal Philips

This photo features a sign in Ukrainian announcing lower prices on radios. The samples  are two VEF-202 (or its sister models, mfg. since 1971) and the Caravella tube record  player

© Thomas Taylor Hammond

Registration

Ticket Prices

Free admission.
Registration is required.

After the workshop, there will be the opportunity to attend the performance The Larva.

Black and white portrait of Timur Dzhafarov

Timur Dzhafarov

Portrait Valeria Prorizna

Valeria Prorizna

In the personal archive of a technician who worked at an early experimental electronic music workshop in Kyiv, operational from the mid-1960s and dissolved in the 1970s, a collection of recordings has survived. Select fragments will direct a hauntological sonic walk through a city where visions of the future are manifested in conflicting forms. Moving through West End, the listeners will find themselves in spaces that fulfill the visionary promise, expressed in the workshop’s output, but will also pass though environments no one in the postwar decades would have anticipated or wanted. The utopian sonic material, created by those who believed that the 21st century would be different from the 20th, should have been a soundtrack for an urban life to come. Having reached the future for which the soundtrack was written, the flaneurs can contemplate the form it took.

Visitor Information

Duration
Approx. 60 minutes

Meeting point
Messe Nord ZOB

Subsequent joint return trip to Radialsystem

Cast

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Workshop
Valeria Prorizna

Score
Timur Dzhafarov

Cast

Workshop
Valeria Prorizna

Score
Timur Dzhafarov

Biographies

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Valeria Prorizna is a Ukrainian filmmaker and visual artist, developing counter-archives of spatial justice and suppressed histories. Drawing on media archaeology, she works across cinema, video installation, and spatial research. Since 2022, she has been collaborating with the Centre for Spatial Technologies, contributing to projects including "City Within a Building", "Nebelivka Hypothesis", the "Mariupol Drama Theatre Spatial Archive", presented at Venice Biennale Architettura 2023, and more recently "Church, Chora, Chersonese". Her work has been exhibited at Akademie der Künste Berlin, M HKA Antwerp and others, receiving a Prix Ars Electronica Honorary Mention. Valeria lives and works between the Netherlands and Ukraine.

Timur Dzhafarov is a Ukrainian electronic musician and a soldier in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, currently living and working in Kyiv. Before Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, he produced experimental electronic music under the name John Object, performing at festivals and music events across Ukraine and Europe.

Biographies

Valeria Prorizna is a Ukrainian filmmaker and visual artist, developing counter-archives of spatial justice and suppressed histories. Drawing on media archaeology, she works across cinema, video installation, and spatial research. Since 2022, she has been collaborating with the Centre for Spatial Technologies, contributing to projects including "City Within a Building", "Nebelivka Hypothesis", the "Mariupol Drama Theatre Spatial Archive", presented at Venice Biennale Architettura 2023, and more recently "Church, Chora, Chersonese". Her work has been exhibited at Akademie der Künste Berlin, M HKA Antwerp and others, receiving a Prix Ars Electronica Honorary Mention. Valeria lives and works between the Netherlands and Ukraine.

Timur Dzhafarov is a Ukrainian electronic musician and a soldier in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, currently living and working in Kyiv. Before Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, he produced experimental electronic music under the name John Object, performing at festivals and music events across Ukraine and Europe.

Further Information

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Accompanying programme of the LINA Fellows

Saturday, 24 January
Rehearsing Invisible Heritage
A fleeting urban game and rehearsal in public attention

by DELKUDEL 
2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Meeting point: In front of Radialsystem

 

Sunday, 25 January 
Sonic Walk: Certain Fragments from a Strumotone Inquiry 
by Valeria Prorizna 
1 p.m. to approx. 2 p.m.
Meeting point: Messe Nord ZOB 
Followed by a joint return trip to Radialsystem

”serena”: a walk-in pinhole camera & light painting workshop
by Francisco Braga 
1 p.m. to approx. 2 p.m.
Meeting point: Radialsystem foyer
Ages 14 and up

 

Further Information

Accompanying programme of the LINA Fellows

Saturday, 24 January
Rehearsing Invisible Heritage
A fleeting urban game and rehearsal in public attention

by DELKUDEL 
2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Meeting point: In front of Radialsystem

 

Sunday, 25 January 
Sonic Walk: Certain Fragments from a Strumotone Inquiry 
by Valeria Prorizna 
1 p.m. to approx. 2 p.m.
Meeting point: Messe Nord ZOB 
Followed by a joint return trip to Radialsystem

”serena”: a walk-in pinhole camera & light painting workshop
by Francisco Braga 
1 p.m. to approx. 2 p.m.
Meeting point: Radialsystem foyer
Ages 14 and up

 

Visitor Information

Duration
Approx. 60 minutes

Meeting point
Messe Nord ZOB

Subsequent joint return trip to Radialsystem

Credits

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Forecast is a project by Skills e. V. Forecast is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Forecast is a member of the European network LINA.

Media partnerships Radialsystem: The Berliner, Rausgegangen, taz. die tageszeitung and tip Berlin.

Credits

Forecast is a project by Skills e. V. Forecast is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Forecast is a member of the European network LINA.

Media partnerships Radialsystem: The Berliner, Rausgegangen, taz. die tageszeitung and tip Berlin.

In the personal archive of a technician who worked at an early experimental electronic music workshop in Kyiv, operational from the mid-1960s and dissolved in the 1970s, a collection of recordings has survived. Select fragments will direct a hauntological sonic walk through a city where visions of the future are manifested in conflicting forms. Moving through West End, the listeners will find themselves in spaces that fulfill the visionary promise, expressed in the workshop’s output, but will also pass though environments no one in the postwar decades would have anticipated or wanted. The utopian sonic material, created by those who believed that the 21st century would be different from the 20th, should have been a soundtrack for an urban life to come. Having reached the future for which the soundtrack was written, the flaneurs can contemplate the form it took.

Cast

Workshop
Valeria Prorizna

Score
Timur Dzhafarov

Biographies

Valeria Prorizna is a Ukrainian filmmaker and visual artist, developing counter-archives of spatial justice and suppressed histories. Drawing on media archaeology, she works across cinema, video installation, and spatial research. Since 2022, she has been collaborating with the Centre for Spatial Technologies, contributing to projects including "City Within a Building", "Nebelivka Hypothesis", the "Mariupol Drama Theatre Spatial Archive", presented at Venice Biennale Architettura 2023, and more recently "Church, Chora, Chersonese". Her work has been exhibited at Akademie der Künste Berlin, M HKA Antwerp and others, receiving a Prix Ars Electronica Honorary Mention. Valeria lives and works between the Netherlands and Ukraine.

Timur Dzhafarov is a Ukrainian electronic musician and a soldier in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, currently living and working in Kyiv. Before Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, he produced experimental electronic music under the name John Object, performing at festivals and music events across Ukraine and Europe.

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