Hanna's Atelier for Sonorous Arts

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Hanin atelje sonoričnih umetnosti

Gornji trg 23, SI-1000 Ljubljana

http://www.soundatelier.com/

Phone386 (0) 40 885 207

Hanna's Atelier for Sonorous Arts Ljubljana is a comprehensive centre for the exploration, creation, development and promotion of sound arts and related disciplines in Slovenia and abroad. It was established in February 2006 by Hanna Preuss.

Hanna's Atelier explores the power of sonoric matters in film and performance and also points at the importance of sounds in every day life and the sounds of our subconsciousness. Preuss also engages in educational activities, and the Atelier's programmes and activities include workshops on the role of sound in perception and in the evocation of emotion and meaning in an artistic context (designed for students of all ages, backgrounds and skill levels).

Background

Hanna Preuss was born in Poland and educated in sound direction at the Polish Film Academy, Lodz. Since 1979 she has worked as sound designer and sound engineer on more than 120 short, animated, documentary, experimental and feature-length Slovene or international films. For her accomplishments she has gained numerous awards including the Golden Medal at the Belgrade Film festival in Yugoslavia, the Golden Arena at the Pula Film Festival in Croatia, the American Westrex Award in Trieste, Italy, and several Metod Badjura National Awards for best sound at the Festival of Slovenian Film. In 1988 she received the Župančič Award of the City of Ljubljana for her research of the sound based art forms.

Hanna Preuss collaborates with a wide range of artists from the field of theatre, film, contemporary dance, visual arts and graphic design, mostly on international basis. She has been engaged in the creation of sound compositions for the theatre and visual installations. She designed soundscapes for the performances Mezzanino, Hi Res and Gallery of Dead Women by the female dance duo Maja Delak and Mala Kline (see Emanat, Dance Production and Education).

Productions

Hanna's Atelier for Sonorous Arts has created a range of interdisciplinary projects, exhibitions and installations. A line of projects under the title Cantata of the Spoken and the Seen includes Sonoria, Underwater in the Sound of Japan, Reversible Pixelator, Assonanza tra due citta and Tea in 2006, Sonorous Journey in 2007, Soundstorms, Drawings. Echoes. Absence. Dreams. , PTIH! Ljubljana and PTIH! Japan, Memoria. Ombre. Racconto. Silenzio., SCI-FI..., Flight of the Vitruvian and Dire Poesia 2010. Recordings of projects are usually available on CD-ROM.

The intermedia performance Shadows.Thoughts.Drawings.Cadence presented in Cankarjev dom in 2009 was co-produced by the Eẋ Ponto International Festival, Teatro Miela (Trieste), Cultural Center of the University in Celovec/Klagenfurt UNIKUM (Austria), and the Norway Production Network for Electronic Art. In December 2010 the Drawings.Echoes.Absence.Dreams. production was presented in Kyoto, Japan.

In April 2011 the premiere of the NOHSONO takes place in the Knight's Hall of the Križanke in Ljubljana, in coproduction with Ljubljana Festival. The performance was developed by Hanna Preuss and got a special permission of Mr. Kongo Hisanori, Twenty-sixth Head of the Kongo school of Noh and the Japanese Noh organization Nougakukyoukai, Association of Noh theatre. The NOHSONO features the performances of Tatsushige Udaka and Haruna Tanaka.

External links

• Hanna's Atelier for Sonorous Arts website
• Hanna's Atelier for Sonorous Arts production presented in Kyoto