Year: 2022

Dumb Type

Founded in 1984 by students from Kyoto City University of Arts, Dumb Type’s multifaceted installations and performances often deploy cyberpunk imagery in order to critique a highly “informatised” consumer society that is concurrently rendered passive or mute via the unceasing deluge of data and technological development: individuals who are “overwhelmed with information yet unaware of… Continue reading Dumb Type

Re-Forming the Body

An interesting idea I found in this book so far is that of the autonomy of language in Christianity’s way of dealing with carnal pleasure. ‘To be made pure religion was to be symbolized by words, or discourse, and alienated from sinful bodies and institutionalised sacred referents. The sight or sound of the word was… Continue reading Re-Forming the Body

Popping Candy

I have been spending some times with the hardware synths. I am not a massive fan of the sound of synths used as musical instruments. There are certain electronic sounds that I do love. Mika Vainio’s Stratostaatti comes to mind. Or anything by Ryoji Ikeda. I love synths when they sound like electricity. When I… Continue reading Popping Candy

Moodboard

My process always starts with visuals. It can be a colour palette, it can be a textile, it can be a room or a time of the day. Usually a combination of all of the above. This project revolves around themes of pleasure, addiction, restraint and broadly our relationships with our bodies. There is a… Continue reading Moodboard

Pleasure

One subject I want to explore in my practice is non-substance addiction and generally our relationship to our bodies. Researching the notion of pleasure I found out there is a whole literature on the matter and how related its’ study is with that of religious practices. In the article In pursuit of the study of… Continue reading Pleasure

Arrière-garde

‘The very people who you would once have expected to produce (as artists) or champion (as consumers) the non-traditional and groundbreaking – that’s the group that’s most addicted to the past. In demographic terms, it’s the exact same cutting-edge class, but instead of being pioneers and innovators, they’ve switched roles to become curators and archivists.… Continue reading Arrière-garde

Salomé Voegelin on Listening Strategies

This was a public talk held online for the First and Second-year Master students and Third-year Bachelor students at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory (RMC) in Copenhagen on February 2nd 2021. In this talk Salome makes some interesting points on art – science interdisciplinarity and ways under which it could function. It is mainly focused on… Continue reading Salomé Voegelin on Listening Strategies

Music of the Spheres

The first time I came across a connection between physics and music was when reading Cosmos, by Carl Sagan. It’s a book on the history of our universe, with many insights on how science developed and how it influenced our civilization. The chapter that stayed with me the most was ‘The Harmony of the World’,… Continue reading Music of the Spheres

What Does Space Sound Like? Like Harry Potter!

I recently happened upon a concert at the Royal Albert Hall that made me think about the relationship between science and art. Space Station Earth is an orchestral composition by Ilan Eshkeri set to footage from space provided by ESA (European Space Agency). Through strings, percussion, synths and human voices, the scope of the composition… Continue reading What Does Space Sound Like? Like Harry Potter!