About

Jutta Ravenna

Sound art

born in Düsseldorf, Germany, Ravenna studied visual arts and music in Düsseldorf and Berlin. As sound-artist, she works with kinetic objects. On the border between visual art and music, she researches intermodal perceptional qualities between acoustics and visual themes, mostly with site-specific installations. Since 1994 examples of works in lakes, abandoned shipyards, a gelatine-factory, old churches and monasteries, radio stations and universities. Several shows in Germany and abroad, among others: Filmfestival São Paulo, Goethe Center Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Soundtower St. Pölten, DARB-1718 Cairo, Egypt, Sound Art Gallery SA))_Gallery Moscow, Sonoscopia Associação Cultural in Porto, Portugal, Festival for Music and Light Berlin, singuhr audio-gallery Berlin, Villa Contarini Padua, Deutsche Telekom Berlin, Akademie der Künste Berlin. Ravenna was co-founder of the events „Klangkunst im Dialog“ (1996) and curator of the Festival “Sonifications” 2017 at Berlin Society for New Music. Since 2016 she is member of Errant Sound.

Prizes and Awards

 

2014 Working scholarship Sonoscopia Associação Cultural in Porto, Portugal

2023 Scholarship of the Musikfonds

2022 Scholarship of the Musikfonds

2020 Work scholarship for Sound art, Berlin Senate

2020 Scholarship of the Musikfonds

2019 Fellowship Global of the Berlin Senate, Cairo, Egypt

2014 Working scholarship of the Gallery AUSLAND, Berlin

Selection of shows

 

2023 Sons Circulantes
LIVE electroacoustic Concert Installation for a sounding windmill with circulating resonators and Leslie speakers as part of the Portuguese Mill days in the Moinho dos Caixeiros, Portugal

 

2022 Earth Performance
Live Performance and Video-Loop for solo voice buried in earth in an oral cavity
Buenos Aires – Vienna

 

2022 turned and rotated music
tactile scores from a series of branch engravings found in the forest with beetle feeding marks
for woodwind instruments. „Soundart and Notation“,  Errant Sound Gallery, funded by the Musikfonds

https://errantsound.net/2022/02/klangkunst-und-notation/

 

2021 Earth Performance
Live Performance and Video-Loop for solo voice buried in earth in an oral cavity
Topia Sound Art Festival Brazil – Berlin, Errant Sound Gallery, funded by Goethe Institut São Paulo

 

2021 Listen to Moscow
site specific Sound Installation for 7 sounding bird´s nest
http://electromuseum.ru/event/yutta-ravenna-tishina-za-mirom-zvukov/, Electromuseum Moscow

2021 1 – Hertz – Performance
for Ensemble and Pendelum Orchestra – Visualization of pulse, pulse frequency and Music via arm gestures and silent repetitions ( cooperation René Henry and Jutta Ravenna), Am Flutgraben Berlin e.V.

2021 Zeiten-Pendel
cybernetic sound installation about the metronome,  oscillating between stability and instability sound movement in a multitude of oscillating loudspeakers as sound objects in space, 16 channels, gyroscopes, displays, ash heaps – Contemporary Music Month, Am Flutgraben Berlin e.V.

 

2020 The Silence behind the Sonic World
a Sound Installation about the process of deafness of the composer B.   for a space, prepared with seven sounding bird´s nests hanging from the ceiling, Errant Sound Galerie, Berlin (view:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7A3xLyAa9g&feature=youtu.be  )

2020 Listen to Cairo
site specific Sound Installation for 7 earth holes in the garden of the DARB 1718, Cairo, Egypt fellowship Global of the Berlin Senate

2019 A Piece of War
Sound sculpture, 5 loudspeaker vehicles on the walls, ceiling and ground, Video-Loop, ventilator, zinc bucket, hospital bed, foto, text. Project Auditive Memory – Sonomemo, Errant Sound, Berlin

2019 Listen to Bolivia
site specific Sound Installation for four directions of an acoustic compass, Goethe Center Santa Cruz, Bolivia

 

2019 Vox Humana in the Sahara
Sound Performance for amplified solo voice from a subterrestial speaker covered with soil,Tissardmine, Maroc

2019 A Piece of Dirt – Sound – Performance
Installation for Water, Sound and Dirt from 7 subterrestial loudspeakers in an 
abandonned Military Building, Biennale Urbana, Venedig

2018 Pendulum Music
swinging loudspeaker for binary code, Festival DIGITALE – Düsseldorf, supported by the Musikfonds

2017 SesamSesam
Dancing Sound – Conducting Data, Sonification of WLAN-Traffic, Festival Sonifications – audible data streams, Berlin Society of New Music, Villa Elisabeth Berlin

2015 Pulsating Patio, (Field 1 + 2)
two space located Soundinstallations in Public Space of Berlin, Festival Heroines of Sound, Berlin

 

2014 Rotation
„The complexity of different points of sound observation in a space“, room prepared with Leslie Speakers,    AUSLAND Berlin (view: https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/handle/18452/7550)

 

2014 Vox Humana
Soundperformance for amplified solo voice from a subterrestial speaker covered with soil , AUSLAND Berlin(view: http://ausland-berlin.de/jutta-ravenna)

 

2013 Speakers´ Corner
Nomination for QUBIT-Festival New York City

 

2013 Emphatic Chairs
quEAR Audiofestival in Berlin

 

2012 Cluster
audio-visual cluster made of public address speakers integrated into the urban architecture, New-Music-Festival Blurred Edges, Hamburg

 

2010 Speakers‘ Corner
interactive sound sculpture in public space Hamburg and Heinrich-Böll-Foundation        Berlin

 

2004 Wing Beat
loudspeakers in the vegetal fur of the museum’s facade, Märkisches Museum Berlin, as part of the festival “Stare in Berlin“

 

2002 Emphatic Chairs
Deutsche Telekom Berlin, 4 sounding hood-dryers with loudspeakers and vibrating seats

 

2001 Nail-Music
film-soundtrack in collaboration with Antal Lux, Sao-Paulo-Film-Festival

 

2000 Goes Electronics green?
sound-sculpture, sonification of living plants-data in cooperation with Fraunhofer Institut   Berlin

 

1999 The 9th Column
interactive sounding column made from computer-mainboards, Audio-Gallery of the radio-station „Sender Freies Berlin“

 

1999 Binär
interactive data-sound-sphere with foto-cells, Klangturm St. Pölten

 

1998 Data-Sound-Window
Field 4,   first permanently installed sound-sculpture, integrated into the architecture of the university-building, Sonification Project about audible data-streams, Electronic Studio of the Technical University Berlin  
(view: http://www.ak.tu-berlin.de/studio )

 

1998 Data-Audio-Walk
Field 4, indoor and outdoor , International Congress of Mathematicians, Technical University Berlin

 

1997 Chipmusic
interactive wall of mainboards and sound, Berlin-Padua-Wien

 

1996 Data-Sound-Window
Field 3, Festival Music and Light, Parochialkirche,  Berliner Society of New Music, Sonification of daylight

 

1996 Data-Sound-Column
Field 1, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin

 

1996 Data-Sound-Column
Field 2, Berliner Künstlerförderung

 

1996 10n Operations in 10 Hours for the Security of a City
interactive Data-Sound-Window, (Field 3), sound-art festival Sonambiente at singuhr-audio-gallery Berlin, Location-dependent densification 2

 

1996 Data-Sound-Window
Field 2, Petri-Chapel of Dome of Brandenburg

 

1995 Data-Sound-Window
Field 1,  Dome of Brandenburg

 

1994 Noahs Arch, Musicfestival Brandenburg, acoustic simulation of an increasing water line in an old shipyard

 

1994 Quiet Phonemes
Field 3 , Soundinstallation  in an abandoned gelatine factory (VEBGelatinewerk), Brandenburg

 

1994 Quiet Phonemes
Field 2 , Soundinstallation with floating sound-buoys , installed on Rangsdorfer Lake, nearby Berlin

 

1994 Quiet Phonemes
Field 1 , interactive Soundinstallation with extremely soft high frequency insect sounds, which are        hidden in a tree trunk, density navigated by ultrasonic-sensors, location-dependent densification 1 , University of Fine Arts Berlin

 

1994 Perpetuating Glissando
Concert for seven hood-dryers, Irrton-Festival Berlin

 

1989 Sounding Wheel
Academy of Fine Arts Berlin

 

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