Join us for casual summer evenings in the Kunsthalle Basel yard as part of the Werkstatt Sessions, featuring incredible sound performances.
Release and listening session of Joyfully Waiting’s new vinyl published by Speckled-Toshe, followed by a live performance by Jon Neverdie presenting excerpts from his upcoming album published by Czarnagora.
6–10 p.m.
Werkstatt Sessions with free entry to the current exhibitions of Kunsthalle Basel
BYOB: Bring Your Own Bottle, Blanket, and favorite snack to ride the wavelengths of our intimate setting with us.
7–7.45 p.m.
Release and listening session of Joyfully Waiting and Speckled-Toshe’s vinyl record ‘Joyfully Waiting’
8–9 p.m.
Sound performance by Jon Neverdie
The web-based project Joyfully Waiting and the label Speckled-Toshe have teamed up to release a vinyl with contributions from artists and key positions, now gathered on one physical object with sound pieces by Galaxia Wang, Sandar Tun Tun, Seth Price, Chino Amobi, RM, Soraya Lutangu Bonaventure and Mohamed Almusibli, Jan Vorisek, Arttu Palmio, Marion Neumann, Jim Fletcher, Jeanne Graff, Aline Zeltner, The Operator and Stanislav Iordanov, L’Acte pur – Andreas Hochuli and Tristan Lavoyer. The red colored vinyl is complemented by a whole series of printed supplements and comes in a limited numbered edition of 250 copies.
Joyfully Waiting is an online platform of sound works made by contemporary artists, free to listen on. The project is punctuated by editions, exhibitions to be listened to, bringing together the artists in an organic way. It builds up over time a singular collection of sound works.
The label Speckled-Toshe is dedicated to the more open-ended realm of sound art and sound works by visual artists and experimental musicians. It strives to realize carefully curated editions in these overlapping scenes, responding to the specific idiosyncrasies of the medium and working with a select group of individuals to create ambitious vinyl editions.
Under the moniker Jon Neverdie, Sem Lala will present excerpts from his upcoming album in his live performance, which will be released on Czarnagora this fall. On the forthcoming release, he works with modular synthesis and sample-based compositions. The musical texture is often disrupted by external elements – loose wiring, accumulated dust inside the synthesizer, a failing patchwork. The audio signal registers these short circuits. It is this point of interest that the works put into question. How are the real limits of music-making inscribed in a finished piece? What harmonic material lies hiding in the dirt?