Sound Art
On Sound Art
Sound art rarely attempts to create a portrait or capture the soul of a human being, or express something about the interaction of human beings — its main concern is sound as a phenomenon of nature and/or technology. In most of the sound works I have created, there was a certain freedom in working with the space, and my aim was to develop a topology of a sound space, a space which is defined by sound. I was reminded by the sound space manifesto by Bernhard Leitner, in which he explains his sound space theory, based on geometry. In a sound space of Leitner a line of loudspeakers (points) mark the area: the horizontal and vertical plane. Sound moves along these lines, forming various forms, shapes and movements. Leitner translated a geometrical concept of point, line and plane to a sound concept which stayed very close to visual language. I was wondering if it would be possible to make other translations.
Today in my works I explore and reorganize the relationship between listening, being and seeing. As a composer I have always been interested in embodied and visual practice by for example French comedian Jacques Tati. I fascinated by the choreographic mode of his visual language, where he actively is challenging the viewer’s abilities to follow the narrativity of a scene. In my own visual language I am interested in the difficulty of reading bodies and spaces