Duration
12.9.26, 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location
Westgalerie
Admission
More information will follow soon
Info
Friday, 11.9., 8 pm
TUNE. Florian Hecker presents Natural Selection live
Saturday, 12.9. 5 – 7pm
TUNE. Roundtable with Florian Hecker, Maya B. Kronic, Vincent Lostanlen and Michael Newman (Free Admission)
Saturday, 12.9. 8 pm
TUNE. Joint listening of FAVN
Florian Hecker (1975, Augsburg) works with synthetic sound, the listening process, and the audience's auditory experience, to create installations and performances. At stake in the work is how sound is received, processed, and transformed by the listening body, inviting audiences to engage with composite sonic environments that question the nature of perception and listening itself.
For TUNE, from 4.9. - 14.9.2026, Hecker presents FAVN, a thirteen-channel sound piece that unfolds as an automated performance, tracing the blurry boundaries between reality and imagination, sensory perception and hallucinated events. On Saturday, September 12th, there will be a roundtable with the artist and guests to discuss the rich philosophical ideas the work explores and generates, followed by an accompanied listening of FAVN.
Maya B. Kronic, who will moderate the discussion, writes on philosophy, art, technology, and culture. They are the founder and editor of the independent UK publisher Urbanomic and have collaborated with Hecker on projects such as Speculative Solution (Urbanomic/Éditions Mego, 2011), Formulations (MMK Frankfurt and Koenig Books, 2016), and most recently RESYNTHESE FAVN (Blank Forms, 2024). Vincent Lostanlen is a computer music researcher known for his work on time-frequency scattering, a mathematical technique that models how the auditory cortex processes sound structure across time and frequency. Michael Newman is an art historian and Professor of Art Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. He authored "Sensation and the Measure of Timbre: Florian Hecker's Resynthese FAVN: Revisiting Mallarmé's Scene" in Florian Hecker: Halluzination, Perspektive, Synthese (Sternberg Press and Kunsthalle Wien, 2019).
TUNE 2026 is supported by Unitel Musikstiftung.