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Tuned City is an international music and arts festival focused on sound art, sound installations, experimental musical instruments and field recording. The main organisor of the event is Staalplaat in collaboration with local organisations. The festival takes place irregularly and everytime in a different city on multiple locations throughout the whole city. Events have taken place in Berlin (2008), Nürnberg (2011), Tallinn (2010/2011) and Brussels (2013).

Tuned City Talinn was part of the official program of the European Cultural Capital Tallinn 2011 and is co-produced with MoKs – Center for Art and Social practice and is supported by the Tallinn 2011 Foundation, Estonian Cultural Endowment, Estonian Ministry of Culture and EC programme Culture. The Brussels event was co-organised by Q-O2, WORM and Aifoon and held place at The Botanique (the main info point) and several other locations. Other organisations that contributed to the festival were Erasmus Hogeschool RITS/Radio, Sint Lukas Transmedia. Q-O2 hosted two international workshop groups from the Masters of Artistic Research program (MAR) from the Royal Academy of Art (KABK), The Hague, Netherlands and The Braunschweig University of Art (HBK), Germany.

Berlin 2008
Artists: Akio Suzuki, Ulrich Eller, Brandon LaBelle, Scott Arford & Randy Yau, Mark Bain, Julien Clauss, Lasse Marc Riek, Richard Francis, Harold Schellinx, Soinu Mapa (Oier Iruretagoiena & Xabier Erkizia), The Phonographic Arkestra (Wolfgang Dorninger, Richard Eigner, Stefan Messner, Joachim Knoll, Stefan Kushima, Michael Petri, Iduna Sickinger, Johannes Staudinger), Thomas Ankersmit & Antoine Chessex, Jacob Kirkegaard and others.

Nürnberg 2010/2011
Artists: John Grzinich, Derek Holzer, René Rissland, Jürgen Lehmeier and others.

Tallinn 2011
Artists: Charles Curtis, Charlemagne Palestine, Thomas Ankersmit, Maja S.K. Ratkje, Justin Bennett, Derek Holzer and others.

Brussels 2013
Artists: Valeria Merlini (IT) & Felicity Ford (UK), David Helbich (DE), Marina Rosenfeld (US) & Okkyung Lee (KR), Lisa Lapierre & Audrey Lauro, Lukas Kühne & Robyn Schulkowsky, Wessel Westerveld (NL) & Yuri Landman (NL) (playing Intonarumori), Hillel Schwartz, Christoph Cox (US), Rie Nakajima, David Maranha & Patricia Machás, Akio Suzuki & Aki Onda, Zoë Irvine, Lee Patterson, Pierre Berthet, Sybille Deligne & David Zagari and others.

Sources & references

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 * article about the Berlin edition
 * Info about the Talinn event]
 * Review about the Tuned City book by The Wire
 * Announcement in De Morgen
 * Review about the Brussels edition in Gonzo (circus)