The Onassis Foundation released the official Tuned City Messene 2018 documentation video, produced by White Room.
Category: documentation_messene
Messene (Mavromati) by BMB con.
Soundscape Series by Gruenrekorder
Germany / 2023 / GrDl 218 / LC 09488
Review:
Finally seeing the light of day this summer is a recording over two thousand years in the making. Recorded over the course of three days as part of the 2018 Tuned City festival in Ancient Messene, Greece, BMB con.’s Messene (Mavromati) is a documentation of a series of performances, a record of the duo’s engagement with a specific place: the ancient city of Messene. The city’s ruined amphitheater, crumbling walls, and surrounding mountains are the backdrop for an exploration of sound and space in which ancient architects become active and contemporary participants. (Peter Tracy | a closer listen)
Nympholepsy by Yiorgis Sakellariou
Nympholepsy is inspired by the immediate environment and history of ancient Messene and was premiered on June 3, 2018 at Tuned City. The CD was released December 21, 2019.
Ruins & Beginnings: The Dom – ino Sessions
During Tuned City – Messene (2018), architects Christian Espinoza and René Rissland established an experimental structure based on Le Corbusier’s Dom-ino House as part of their research during the festival. The structure is comprised of the concrete framing of an unfinished house. Espinoza and Rissland generously invited people to use it as they imagined. Lanterner (Steve Bates and Marc-Alexandre Reinhardt) proposed a series of live improvisations with the other artists who have participated here.
https://thedimcoast.bandcamp.com/album/ruins-beginnings-the-dom-ino-sessions
DOM-INO VIBRATIONS docu
In 1914 Swiss architect Le Corbusier designed his Dom-ino System. This Construction System was to be completely independent of the floor plans of the house, thereby giving freedom to design the interior configuration. Long before Dom-ino Le Corbusier began his career with studies about Greece. In fact he was fascinated by the ancient architecture of the Greek Polis.
Many documents of that project by Christian Espinoza (CL) & Rene Rissland (DE) here >>>
Space, Sound and the Improvisatory
presenting Tuned City Messene at this conference at the OCC in Athens, 19-21 Oct. 2018
Program info: http://www.sgt.gr/eng/SPG2172/
Documentation by Marc-Alexandre Reinhard
Marc-Alexandre Reinhard put an extensive documentation of his project Act as Fate Wills, Destruction Comes online. One hundred micro interventions were performed in the ruins of the Temple of Zeus on Mount Ithomatas and at various locations on the archeological site of Ancient Messene. Please have a look at https://entopias.tumblr.com
TC Messene – program book
You can see the program book here >>>
TC Messene first impressions
Please have a look at the Tuned City Messene image-pool
Mario de Vega – FALL installation documentation
Performative installation programmed to operate 24 continuous hours. Within this time frame, an algorithm modulates amplitude and increase resonant qualities of 16 channels of white noise. 2 surfaces of 310x230cm were designed and installed in relation to the architecture of the exhibition space. The surfaces rotate independently in a fixed angle, acting as passive filters.
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SITE VISIT – ANCIENT MESSENE – TUNED CITY – 2018
The preparations for the next edition of TUNED CITY at Ancient Messene started. For the first time the place will be not an urban central European city, but actually the exemplary „ideal city“ in the sense of the Greek polis. You can get an impression of the site in this extended photo documentation >>>