Student Works / Master
SoundS Master Exhibition 21/22
public exhibition
13–16 January 2022
Graphics © Kathrin Scheidt
13 — 16 Jan 2022
Opening
13 January 2022 | 4 — 6 PM
Exhibition
14–15 January 2022 | 10 AM — 6 PM
16 January 2022 | 10 AM — 3 PM
This year’s finishing class of Sound Studies and Sonic Arts will exhibit their master’s works on 13–16 January 2022 at the UdK Berlin.
Aleksander Filipiak
Räúurt Eúre Scheiße weg .
installation
LIE 311
Household electronics, questionable clothing, SchnickSchnack or the ubiquitous Mattress — Räúurt Eúre Scheiße weg . is a zine documenting a project which explored the socio-economic phenomena of trash and object disposal onto the streets of Berlin. The project reflected on these forgotten objects, their ephemerality and the potential benefits and detriments of this secondary recycling economy. A selection of the trash objects I encountered were transformed into site-specific sound sculptures. However, just as ephemeral as trash they were made of, these sculptures are no longer sounding, preserved only in the zine. Copies are available at the exhibition.
Photo © SoundS
Kayla Elrod
PLZ KRUSH
Installation
LIE 323
PLZ KRUSH is the title given to my installation and my age-restricted YouTube channel. Both document my performative research focusing on an oversized pair of vinyl platform heels—a hyper-sexual object primarily associated with sex workers and pole-fitness enthusiasts. My online presence nestles the shoes within fetish and ASMR communities, often showcasing their sonic potential through a pair of anonymous legs. With my research, I wanted to explore the artistic potential within the aesthetics of these communities. Rather than distinguish myself as an artist producing work separate from fetish content, my aim is to blur the lines between fetish/sex work and artistic expression.
Within the installation I have chosen not to show any video in order to avoid my body becoming the focal point of the work. Instead, I want to focus on the sounds and narrative of the shoes by putting them on display and exhibiting the foley design linked to the content posted on my YouTube channel.
Photo © SoundS
Elizabeth Davis
feedforward
performance
26 January 2022 | 7:30 pm
km28 | Karl-Marx-Straße 28, 12043 Berlin
In feedforward, a machine learning model trained on 10,000 hours of piano performances improvises in tandem with a live performer. As performer and program attempt to anticipate and respond to each other’s improvisations, the stability of the performance is pushed further and further to the limits of “musicality.”
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TIME VACUUM III
simulation
10–17 January 2022
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as part of the Time-Vacuum-Series, a post-dual simulation without authorship in systems of decentralization. presenting a hyper-technocratic framework, spatial audio portals to be infused with sonic trace as a recursive, intelligent container of memory and thought, co-existing as a collective fluid, a compound of oppositions, the belly of the dragon. In here it roars, swirls, through its chaos its wisdom on trans-embodied experience through the timelessness of infinite potential into the sensation of oneness.
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Photo © SoundS
Farshad Xajehnassiri (aka tarxun)
this○place○meant
Abstraction of Space and Realization of Sound through Physical and Digital Media based on the Gestalt’s Law of Closure
14.2.2022 | 4PM
15.2.2022 | 6PM
Lietzenburger Str. 45, 3.OG
10789 Berlin
Installation performance
A certain form of absence is being more present in our time with the overwhelming augmentation of virtual realms, digital identities, and communication through flat screens. In this project, this phantom state of presence is conceptually indicated as a perceivable whole that contains ignored missing parts ; which similarly is demonstrated in Gestalt psychology as Kanizsa shapes.
As the title suggests –even though homonically–, the piece concerns “displacement”, and in this case the displacement of the artist ; metaphorizing it as a Kanizsa object, in which the presence/absence of whom’s identity and culture in both places is equally inadequate unless considered in favor of the whole. Just like a Kanizsa object, this piece spotlights the visual/sonic events as a medium for questioning the (in)significance of presentiality.
The live act will utilize the space, a quadraphonic+1 loudspeaker/subwoofer set-up, musical instruments, DSP, laser-pointers, framed nets and prism sheets.
Photo © Aude Langlois
Ånsgar
Hypernyms
Performative Installation
15 January 2022 | 2−2.30 pm, 3−3.30 pm, 4−4.30 pm, 5−5.30 pm
LIE 314/15
“They all stood in front of the mirror once. The narcissistic pose developed within puberty usually passes by. Yet, in conjunction with sound — not talking about a joyfully lilted melody, but the determined and defined sound of a concrete recording ready for playback and memorization and therefore always available for the repetition of the narcissistic ritual — the elusive pose turns into a stable program of the self.” (Diederichsen, 2014)
Photo © Kathrin Scheidt
Francisco Riffo Gómez
A tiny piece of time.
Performance for computer and sixteen speakers
15 January 2022 | 4:30 pm | LIE 318
Photo © Kathrin Scheidt
Martin Moolhuijsen
cosm(o)etica
Audiovisual Installation
LIE 314/315 | 13,14,16 January 2022
cosm(o)etica is an audiovisual installation divided into five different sections, each of them in a different style and on a different topic of the audiovisual relation. eschewing formal coherence and organic unity, cosm(o)etica touches themes such as : the fictionalization of the self, the ethics of following somebody’s instructions, the materiality of film with optical soundtrack, the representation of sound and language, the inventions of codes and notational systems, and the threshold beyond which representations and illusions become a perception of reality ; ultimately positing the fallibility of human beings in the face of the cosmos.
Photo © Kathrin Scheidt
Haku Sungho
How the Sea conveys : The Baltic Sea Coast of Germany
installation
LIE 303
A multi-media installation based on field research of the Baltic Sea coast of Germany and its environmental problems, especially marine plastics. The sound of the waves in the Baltic Sea, where the plastic was collected, is recorded (cut) on a 12-inch record disk made entirely from ocean plastic wastes and this is played back as a video work with the image of the sea. In addition, the installation includes a variety of materials collected from the Baltic Sea and works documenting the process of their transformation.
Photo © Kathrin Scheidt
Kim Wichera
a place of calm
installation for binaural headphones with mobile music players
LIE 312
A place of calm is an acoustic exploration of psychiatric wards.
Photo © speaker