An ambient, meditative sonic journey that takes you on a train trip within your inner thoughts. It was created during my Extratonal Residency #01 part of Platform for Extratonality, hosted at Varia (Rotterdam, the Netherlands). With this project, I have created a sonic EP of 7 tracks, 1 video, and a performance at Varia where I shared the artworks.
I’ve spent quite some time on trains during the last few years. I prefer them to any other type of transportation and they have a therapeutic impact on me. They have rhythm, soundscapes, and beautiful sights. The inner silence here is placed on top of those many layers that help you get deep inside yourself and your thoughts. Usually, those moments are full of reflection - memories surfacing from the depts, fantasies circulating your near future in a different place, plans you're trying to make.
While creating the sonic works, I reflected on the inner thoughts that emerged while travelling alone and expressed my reflections through sound. I explored relations between time, movement, train travel, inner thoughts, memories, anticipations and ways of experiencing the journey. These sonic artworks lie on the borderline between ambient music, sonic art, field recordings, and experimentation. Each sonic piece comes with a short poem - it is written as lyrics and also visualised on the picture of each track.
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A series of visual works that explore the subjectivity of maps: once we acknowledge that maps are always subjective, we can consciously map things from our points of view. For these experiments, I started looking for things to map and the value of using this tool as expressing, remembering, explaining, understanding. As a result, I mapped emotions, anxieties, health issues, memories, conflicts, etc.
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Sorry for the inconvenience sound-print installation addresses the housing situation in the Netherlands. It tells the story of a ceiling leakage that was not resolved by the landlord company for 4 months.
_audio of 30:15 min and A3 riso print
_interactive installation at a group exhibition
My Sound Jam at s.a.t.e. was a playful place that invited the visitors to leave their [musical] experience behind and let themselves try out things they didn’t have the chance to do before. With the help of some visual invitations [text prompts & graphic inspirations].
I proposed the visitors to explore ways to make experimental music, noise and sounds and to disrupt the traditional playing in a band. The stage was as cosy as a living room and the sound-making instruments and objects were accessible and fun. This interactive installation suggested the guests to explore some traditional music- making elements and disrupt them. To have conversations about how to approach the collective sound-making and how to document it.
_instruments, visual cards riso, acrylic on wall
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It gathers 5 collectively made sonic publications and their visual elaborations within the walls of a CD case. It aims at inspiring practitioners to play with different methods for including sound in their research and artistic practice. This publication collects the outcomes of facilitated group experiences of sound-making and publishing. It is now available on Underbelly and Vetgedrukt.
_Experimental Publishing Master’s Graduation project, mixed-media project // laser & riso print, 2023, Rotterdam, 80 copies
A deck of 62 cards, nested in a single publication that aims at inspiring a sonic collective or individual experience. The cards lead you through a journey of discovering four of the elements of music and invitations to test and disrupt them.
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Introduction to the publication by Stephen Kerr (musician and designer), editor of the publication:
Music sometimes flows so freely like water that we can barely catch it. Or it erupts like fire in our hearts without warning. It shakes the earth gently as soft, thick vibrations, and moves subtly through the air. In How to Sound Jam, you are invited to explore the elements of music: rhythm, melody, harmony and voice. These four building blocks, examined here through the cards in new and unusual ways, can be combined collaboratively to create musical experiences, while maintaining a cosy and warm environment with friends and strangers.
How to Sound Jam exists to facilitate Sound Jams, collective sound-making experiences that encourage playfulness, exploration, and a welcoming environment for everyone. They were originally developed for the collective exhibition S.Å.T.E. - Sounds at the Exposure, 2.11-2.12.2023, but can be used anywhere that there are people excited to listen, play and explore sound.