Author: Maria Grigoriu

Dandelions – Yasunari Kawabata The novel is a dialogue between the mother and the husband of a girl whom they left at a psychiatric clinic. The dialogue include their memories of her which are often highly sensual and even sexual. The whole novel happens in the main character’s absence. ‘body blindness’ – somagnosia – fictional… Continue reading Body Blindness

Sensuos listening VLF – very low frequencies, below 200Hz, includes infrasound – can be experienced through the skin vibration-sensation ‘sonic body’ – Julian Henriques in theorising the experience of bass – the body acts as a sensate actor between nature (our bodies) and culture (music) – three wavebands? – the first is related to the… Continue reading The Sensuality of Low Frequency Sound, by Cat Hope

‘What if sound is sex?’ – Suzanne G. Cusick Engulfing. Limiting. Bordering. Being swallowed. Vorarephilia? What is the relationship between gentleness and violence? Chinese water torture. Bones and All comes to mind. By Luca Guadagino. A movie about love. About eating one another as an act of love. I guess where my thoughts are tipping… Continue reading Gentle Violence

Dora Maurer 1973 – timing I saw this video as part of an exhibition at Tate Modern a few years ago. It stuck with me. Why? The simplicity of it. I find myself attracted to these works.  Structure, displacements rhythm, repetition Form Gymnastics? forms – seen as sound ‘From an order it is possible to… Continue reading Rhythm

I have made several recordings of the harp and the piano using different techniques: Some with the Beyerdynamic ribbon microphones, some using the Geofon and the Shaeffler contact microphones. (I only have pictures of one of the harp sessions) *The contact microphone cuts off some of the sweetness of the sound so I ended up… Continue reading Practice

What format do I want my work to follow? In the past few months it became increasingly clear to me that I want to expand towards live performance. First thought is sound for theatre. Having been given the opportunity to participate in the sound design for a play during the summer, my need for live… Continue reading Format

Throughout September I worked as an associate sound artist with Esther Ajayi. The play is called Octopolis, (written by Marek Horn, directed by Ed Madden) at Hampstead Theatre. I have been interested in sound for theatre for a long time. This was an extremely exciting time for me. The observations I wanna write about are… Continue reading Holy Actors

Why salt? I started thinking about salt last semester through vapours and sublimation. What does salt mean to me? When I think of salt I think of purity. Cleanliness. Cold. Humid and dry. Rituals of purification and protection. Preservative? Repellant. Sterility. Permanence. Dried out. Lifeless. Motivation, goals, unexplainable needs? (to the self?) – ibex goats… Continue reading Salt

Or navel-gazing. Today – an idiom for self-centredness, self-contemplation, self-indulgence. Originally – a somatic meditation method used in Eastern religious practices (Hinduism, Buddhism and Eastern Orthodox Christianity). The navel is the centre of the body. Its’ point of origin. Its’ point of separation. Where one became two. A wound. A scar. ‘the body is presented… Continue reading Omphaloskepsis