Student Works / Master
SoundS Master Exhibit 24
public exhibition
30 May — 2 June 2024
Photos © Kathrin Scheidt
30 May – 2 June 2024
Collegium Hungaricum Berlin
Dorotheenstraße 12
10117 Berlin
This semester’s finishing class of Sound Studies and Sonic Arts exhibited their master’s works on 30 May — 2 June 2024 at the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin.
AnaRosa
Viaje à la Dimensión Azul
Through this fictional narration, the ambiguous motivations behind the creation of indigenous sound archives are approached in all of their complexity. As she journeys through the distant island “Azul”, the main character encounters situations that confront her to the colonial structure that supports her own practice, opposing the foreign ideal of preservation. The sound story incorporates anonymous songs from the Mapuche indigenous community, recorded in 1940 by Isabel Artez. Fanzine, audiobook
Photo © Kathrin Scheidt
Jane Arnison
Space for what is, for what
will become, place.
An activated performance/installation, a suite of pieces exploring different elements of collective power. A story-less story that is made as it is told. An opportunity for collective experiences as well as individual contem-plation. multichannel, activated installation/performance(s)
1 June⌇3+5+7 PM
Photo © Kathrin Scheidt
Santiago Burelli
EXTRACTING SONORO_
MATERIAL
cast metals, anachronistic electronic components, neon, sound system :: experimentation in the sonification of the extractivist process. Sculpture
Photo © Kathrin Scheidt
Mariana Carvalho
the melter of limbs (now again)
stirs me
the melter of limbs (now again) stirs me // my eyes can’t differentiate themselves from the things they see // when I look at you part of me is gone // two are not one // but we were looking at each other // why is seeing such disorganization ? Installation
Photo © KMRU
Varoujan Chetirian
The distance between
The distance between is based on researches made in a massif abandoned space complex in the Armenian mountains. Once directed towards the cosmos, the telescopes are now echoing the sounds of the birds living around. This lost industrial and scientific functionality, replaced by a mirror of our terrestrial life offers a merging of the physical but also cultural, sonic perception of space-time. Installation
Photo © Kathrin Scheidt
Hayden Dean
Ten More Seconds
In a time of accelerated communication and distraction, it can be hard to tell when and where ideas are planted, leading to a question of whose voices we inhabit and how much we align with them.
“Ten More Seconds” is a performance that plays with the ideas of knowledge acquisition. It reflects on how speech, especially when heard from an authoritative position, eventually morphs and becomes our own thoughts and ideas.
Mirroring everyday media, information mutates into a blend of words, washing the spectator with phrases that form a meditation on social power and our own credibility. Performance
Photo © Kathrin Scheidt
Photo ©Kathrin Scheidt
Photo © Kathrin Scheidt
Photo © Kathrin Scheidt
Hayden Dean
Ten More Seconds
In a time of accelerated communication and distraction, it can be hard to tell when and where ideas are planted, leading to a question of whose voices we inhabit and how much we align with them.
“Ten More Seconds” is a performance that plays with the ideas of knowledge acquisition. It reflects on how speech, especially when heard from an authoritative position, eventually morphs and becomes our own thoughts and ideas.
Mirroring everyday media, information mutates into a blend of words, washing the spectator with phrases that form a meditation on social power and our own credibility. Performance
Torge Goderstad
Sirens In The Fog
The function of the fog horn is explicitly linked to the loss of perception within the fog. It is tied to uncertainty, acting as an ambiguous guide to those trying to navigate to safe harbour. Using this relationship between the symbol of the fog horn and uncertainty as a starting point, my low frequency fog horns aim to illicit inward reflection on feelings of uncertainty within the individual. Sculptural Installation
Photo © Kathrin Scheidt
Vilte Gustyte
Moments in Flux in A Room
A gallery room where a continuous stream of sounds is originating from various locations in Berlin, fostering a meditative contemplation on time, space, and the present. The interweaving of sounds from diverse locations encourages listeners to construct an imaginative sonic realm that invites exploration of potential auditory worlds, hearing their own imaginary geography, contemplating on the changing and evolving nature of moments within a confined space — a room. These simultaneous moments occurring in different locations introduce synchronization across space, prompting a reflection on the awareness of the ‘other’ existing elsewhere, beyond the immediate surroundings. This telematic or telepathic connection becomes a subject to modifications and polyrhythmic nuances when experienced in a gallery due to distance and varying internet speeds and connections. Installation (multi channel)
Photo © Kathrin Scheidt
Haesoo Jung
Automated Dreams
Sound, light and stage machinery orchestrate a choreography that evolves in response to each other and the environment, creating a unique performative language that runs indefinitely. Kinetic Installation
Photo © Kathrin Scheidt
Kirstine Kjeldsen
Singing Teeth
Due to unusually warm weather, crickets were sounding in the south of Spain as early as February this year. Impressive, yet unsettling, their singing signalled a disjointed state of being ; a persistent singing-out-of-time as a beautiful alarm going off. Singing Teeth builds on the personal experiences of being out at night, navigating the fields by the unmistakable sound of the crickets’ call. It examines the ambiguity of appreciating a song come early that might not have a future. Installation (multi channel composition, fabric)
Photo © Kathrin Scheidt
Simina Oprescu
The Catalyst
Applied acoustics research on idiophones and metaphysics of the politics of experience, insanity, time and space, object and event, materiality and energy, memory and breath. Each bell voices a story, and symbolism spans history, an interface between physical and abstract, a resonance of senses. I Unus Mundus Sometimes I build Sometimes I destroy ; II Spiritus Dies ; III Insania. Participatory installation where individuals are invited to play the bells and listen as a collective. Installation (multi channel composition, signal processing, bells)
Photo © Kathrin Scheidt
Photo ©Kathrin Scheidt
Photo © Kathrin Scheidt
Photo © Kathrin Scheidt
Simina Oprescu
The Catalyst
Applied acoustics research on idiophones and metaphysics of the politics of experience, insanity, time and space, object and event, materiality and energy, memory and breath. Each bell voices a story, and symbolism spans history, an interface between physical and abstract, a resonance of senses. I Unus Mundus Sometimes I build Sometimes I destroy ; II Spiritus Dies ; III Insania. Participatory installation where individuals are invited to play the bells and listen as a collective. Installation (multi channel composition, signal processing, bells)
Makoto Oshiro
Whispers
Multiple units of small record/playback devices arranged in the space with multiple glass cylinder resonators will create a “collective feedback” effect by recording each other’s voices in a diffused “telephone game (or Chinese Whispers)” style. Each unit has a varying record/playback time, and they “listen” to each other and change their behavior based on what they hear. While recording each other, the units also record other sounds around them, which are also taken into the circulating feedback and affect the resulting output.
Whispers produces an interaction between the clustered installation and the space/ environment in which it is placed through the resonance of the cylinders, the different sounds in the room, and the reactions of each unit. Installation (Sculptural) / Performance
Photo © Kathrin Scheidt
Germaine Png
Object : Community
Bonding with an abandoned object, and trying to convince it that it is still loved, the documentation of this public installation showcases the intimate research process of what it means to be an object of community. Installation
Photo © Kathrin Scheidt
Niels Poensgen
Disappearing Acts
An exercise in compositional evaporation for oscillators, water droplets and moisture sensors. Durational Performance / Composition
2 June⌇2–5 PM
Photo © Kathrin Scheidt
Mariano Rosales
An Andean Archive
My limbs were themselves, a portable technology of memory. How long would this awareness last, how long would the cells in my body keep this information resonating and alive?”. Ethnographical sound archives were made through particular ways of listening, aiming at specific objects of interest. What epistemologies have been reinforced and constructed in this process, and what meanings have been lost in the way ? The recordings are there, but who can tell the stories about them, and who will be telling them in the future ? Theoretical work
2 June⌇6 PM⌇Panel Talk with AnaRosa
Photo © Kathrin Scheidt
Sel
Gaze-back
An episodic multichannel video installation that transports viewers into an imagined totalitarian metropolis particular for its surveillance devices. The piece de/reconstructs living under constant scrutiny physically and sonically mapsTehran’s CCTV scheme, as a real-time point for reference. It prompts the participants to actively associate certain sounds with urban systems of
surveillance, while experiencing them. In the second episode, a short sci-fi film complements the artist’s explorations of personal interventions with such
systems. Installation
Photo © Kathrin Scheidt
Tat Sham
On my way home
Multi-channel documentary dance audiovisual installation based on Kevin Lynch’s “Imagability” concept of city planning and mental mapping. Installation (Audiovisual)
Photo © Kathrin Scheidt
Victor Yrigoyen
Dalmatina
To be occupied by anyone and their memories. To be a space, a bare nest. To lie between outlook and oblivion. A collection of personal and found, designed and created objects to dream up a home. Give purpose, bring significance to the mundane. Doll up, choose an aesthetic experience. Archival media re-sampled to create new pieces. Nothing safe, nothing lost. As they were created, the room tone was pushed to feedback and recorded throughout the process. So it could now be played back and be a soundtrack for itself, a soundtrack for a room. Installation (multi channel, objects, prints, furniture)
Photo © Kathrin Scheidt
Mauro Zannoli
Matter, No Matter
“Matter, No Matter” is an audiovisual installation that explores feedback loops’ dynamic interplay in audio and video media. Drawing inspiration from the interwoven processes in chemistry and biology, this work delves into feedback mechanisms’ autonomous and self-regulating nature.
In chemistry, feedback loops are integral to various reactions, such as in the oscillatory Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction, where chemical reactions produce rhythmic patterns. This phenomenon, characterized by periodic changes in color and reactant concentration, serves as an inspiration for the installation’s audiovisual feedback loops. Through their continuous interaction and transformation of audio and video signals, these loops create an ever-evolving audiovisual network. Installation
Photo © Kathrin Scheidt
Photo ©Kathrin Scheidt
Photo © Kathrin Scheidt
Photo © Kathrin Scheidt
Mauro Zannoli
Matter, No Matter
“Matter, No Matter” is an audiovisual installation that explores feedback loops’ dynamic interplay in audio and video media. Drawing inspiration from the interwoven processes in chemistry and biology, this work delves into feedback mechanisms’ autonomous and self-regulating nature.
In chemistry, feedback loops are integral to various reactions, such as in the oscillatory Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction, where chemical reactions produce rhythmic patterns. This phenomenon, characterized by periodic changes in color and reactant concentration, serves as an inspiration for the installation’s audiovisual feedback loops. Through their continuous interaction and transformation of audio and video signals, these loops create an ever-evolving audiovisual network. Installation