Sound + Multi-Channel Sound

Sleeps: a document of collective intimacy

I was invited by Frans Van Lent to contribute a 10 minute recording to this co-operative sound work together with a group of internationally located artists and researchers including Annie Abrahams, Susana Mendes Silva, Sarah Boulton, Elia Torrecilla, and Martine Viale.
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Sleeps: a document of collective intimacy

I was invited by Frans Van Lent to contribute a 10 minute recording to this co-operative sound work together with a group of internationally located artists and researchers including Annie Abrahams, Susana Mendes Silva, Sarah Boulton, Elia Torrecilla, and Martine Viale.
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The 10 Minutes After Speaking Aloud for the First Time Today

The 10 Minutes After Speaking Aloud For the First Time Today is located somewhere between live performance, sound installation, nāda yoga practice, 1:1, group composition, and an open gesture of care in which everything is considered as material.

Departure points for the work include a question spoken aloud on the political agency of Nāda or the Yoga of Sound.  Read more

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The 10 Minutes After Speaking Aloud for the First Time Today

The 10 Minutes After Speaking Aloud For the First Time Today is located somewhere between live performance, sound installation, nāda yoga practice, 1:1, group composition, and an open gesture of care in which everything is considered as material.

Departure points for the work include a question spoken aloud on the political agency of Nāda or the Yoga of Sound.  Read more

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Evolution Isn’t Fast Enough: Communal Materials

The initiation of new major funded project: Evolution Isn’t Fast Enough. The three project strands act as probes into ways and forms of thinking that might be produced through working with skills, ideas and methods that are of questionable value in the current economic climate. As a project, Evolution Isn’t Fast Enough is ongoing and acts as an open question engaging worldmaking in the present.  Read more

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Evolution Isn’t Fast Enough: Communal Materials

The initiation of new major funded project: Evolution Isn’t Fast Enough. The three project strands act as probes into ways and forms of thinking that might be produced through working with skills, ideas and methods that are of questionable value in the current economic climate. As a project, Evolution Isn’t Fast Enough is ongoing and acts as an open question engaging worldmaking in the present.  Read more

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Location: The 10 Minutes After Speaking Aloud for the First Time Today

Situation: The 10 Minutes After Speaking Aloud for the First Time Today
Location: Hand-held, 4-Channel Surround Sound, 5th of May 2020, London
Equipment: Zoom H2 Recorder  Read more

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Location: The 10 Minutes After Speaking Aloud for the First Time Today

Situation: The 10 Minutes After Speaking Aloud for the First Time Today
Location: Hand-held, 4-Channel Surround Sound, 5th of May 2020, London
Equipment: Zoom H2 Recorder  Read more

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Silences: a document of collective intimacy

In April 2020, during the first Covid-19 lockdown, I was invited by Frans Van Lent to contribute a 10 minute recording of site-specific silence to this co-operative sound work together with a group of internationally located artist researchers including Josh Schwebel, Hiroomi Horiuchi, Marc Buchy, and Joan Heemskerk.  Read more

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Silences: a document of collective intimacy

In April 2020, during the first Covid-19 lockdown, I was invited by Frans Van Lent to contribute a 10 minute recording of site-specific silence to this co-operative sound work together with a group of internationally located artist researchers including Josh Schwebel, Hiroomi Horiuchi, Marc Buchy, and Joan Heemskerk.  Read more

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Messy and Material: A speculative listening installation at ICA London

Comissioned as part of Fig-2, I installed a speculative laboratory within the ICA building in London. A research event located somewhere between an experiential group, a live score, and a performance that drew from interdisciplinary and multimodal methods of ‘listening’.  Read more

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Messy and Material: A speculative listening installation at ICA London

Comissioned as part of Fig-2, I installed a speculative laboratory within the ICA building in London. A research event located somewhere between an experiential group, a live score, and a performance that drew from interdisciplinary and multimodal methods of ‘listening’.  Read more

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Full of Noises

Listening to buildings, building listening machines, and writing objects
An event somewhere between an artist’s talk, a performance, and a group exercise. Lisa Skuret will install a fictional, temporary research lab in the Art Gene building at Full of Noises.
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Full of Noises

Listening to buildings, building listening machines, and writing objects
An event somewhere between an artist’s talk, a performance, and a group exercise. Lisa Skuret will install a fictional, temporary research lab in the Art Gene building at Full of Noises.
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On Building a Voice

‘On Building a Voice’ is a commissioned essay written in 2015 by Dr. Zeynep Bulut (Kings College London) in response to A Call from the Library (2014), one strand of my wider ongoing project Evolution Isn’t Fast Enough. A Call from the Library was a two-day performance installation and real-time sound composition taking place throughout a former public library and community centre in London. Building a future library through the possibilities of listening and sound, the work was generated live by ‘listening’ with and ‘playing’ the library as a building, a concept, utopian project, and space of knowledge production. The score was a constellation which included the building, architecture, gesture, algorithm, instructions, and live text.   Read more

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On Building a Voice

‘On Building a Voice’ is a commissioned essay written in 2015 by Dr. Zeynep Bulut (Kings College London) in response to A Call from the Library (2014), one strand of my wider ongoing project Evolution Isn’t Fast Enough. A Call from the Library was a two-day performance installation and real-time sound composition taking place throughout a former public library and community centre in London. Building a future library through the possibilities of listening and sound, the work was generated live by ‘listening’ with and ‘playing’ the library as a building, a concept, utopian project, and space of knowledge production. The score was a constellation which included the building, architecture, gesture, algorithm, instructions, and live text.   Read more

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Four Figures (low resolution) and a Technique of Extraction

‘Four Figures (low resolution) and a Technique of Extraction’, Lisa Skuret, Listening Through a Beam of Intense Darkness, fig-2 and Outset, 2015.

What is clear is that the sounds whether consciously heard or not, are local and do something locally. The scrubbed sections continue to perform, but not from a (transcendental) distance. The sounds act on, and with, various (non)human listening machines in real-time while at the same time informing, forming, and unforming future listening machines in the present. This process activates a different type of figure more akin to a temporal rather than spatial diagram – active listening as a type of live diagramming process.  Read more

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Four Figures (low resolution) and a Technique of Extraction

‘Four Figures (low resolution) and a Technique of Extraction’, Lisa Skuret, Listening Through a Beam of Intense Darkness, fig-2 and Outset, 2015.

What is clear is that the sounds whether consciously heard or not, are local and do something locally. The scrubbed sections continue to perform, but not from a (transcendental) distance. The sounds act on, and with, various (non)human listening machines in real-time while at the same time informing, forming, and unforming future listening machines in the present. This process activates a different type of figure more akin to a temporal rather than spatial diagram – active listening as a type of live diagramming process.  Read more

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A Call from the Library

Building a future library through the possibilities of listening and sound, the work was generated live by ‘listening to’ and ‘playing’ a building, a concept, utopian project and space of knowledge production. The score was a constellation which included the building, gesture, algorithm, instructions and live text.  Read more

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A Call from the Library

Building a future library through the possibilities of listening and sound, the work was generated live by ‘listening to’ and ‘playing’ a building, a concept, utopian project and space of knowledge production. The score was a constellation which included the building, gesture, algorithm, instructions and live text.  Read more

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Portunalia

This collaborative event marked the eve of Portunalia, a neglected festival that honours the Roman god of doors, keys and livestock. As part of De Beauvoir Labs, it was the first speculative and interdisciplinary attempt to revive undervalued skills through collective effort. Over the course of the afternoon a score and lyrics were produced, by way of painless input on the part of gallery visitors, and the song was performed at 5:30pm by all women recorder troupe, the Dolly Mixtures. Led by myself and writer Sally O’Reilly, the score was generated through data produced via gallery visitors keys, a variety of domestic kitchen scales, the textual affects of rooms, and misplaced personal effects.  Read more

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Portunalia

This collaborative event marked the eve of Portunalia, a neglected festival that honours the Roman god of doors, keys and livestock. As part of De Beauvoir Labs, it was the first speculative and interdisciplinary attempt to revive undervalued skills through collective effort. Over the course of the afternoon a score and lyrics were produced, by way of painless input on the part of gallery visitors, and the song was performed at 5:30pm by all women recorder troupe, the Dolly Mixtures. Led by myself and writer Sally O’Reilly, the score was generated through data produced via gallery visitors keys, a variety of domestic kitchen scales, the textual affects of rooms, and misplaced personal effects.  Read more

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The De Beauvoir Labs

The De Beauvoir Labs are a series of public interdisciplinary collaborations; fashioning unvalued skills into hybrid tools to collectively rethink utopian enterprises. The Lab format is open to take any form: a text, workshop, discussion, performance, song, diagram  Read more

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The De Beauvoir Labs

The De Beauvoir Labs are a series of public interdisciplinary collaborations; fashioning unvalued skills into hybrid tools to collectively rethink utopian enterprises. The Lab format is open to take any form: a text, workshop, discussion, performance, song, diagram  Read more

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Composing Differences at MoMA PS1

A week long research project and events programme organized in collaboration with MoMA PS1, and e-flux. The project brought together artists, curators, and researchers from France and the United States who establish new art platforms, explore tactics of knowledge production that promote the circulation of knowledge, and experiment with art as an agent of social change.   Read more

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Composing Differences at MoMA PS1

A week long research project and events programme organized in collaboration with MoMA PS1, and e-flux. The project brought together artists, curators, and researchers from France and the United States who establish new art platforms, explore tactics of knowledge production that promote the circulation of knowledge, and experiment with art as an agent of social change.   Read more

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Configuring the Potential

Configuring the Potential – Commission for Parasol Unit in London which expanded from a work that I made for DRAF London. For this iteration, I invited a Daf and Ney player, a Flutist, a Cellist, and an Electronic Ouija-Board Operator to join me in a live collective reading and playing of the Parasol Unit Foundation, building architecture, and the Merlin James exhibition temporarily housed within.   Read more

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Configuring the Potential

Configuring the Potential – Commission for Parasol Unit in London which expanded from a work that I made for DRAF London. For this iteration, I invited a Daf and Ney player, a Flutist, a Cellist, and an Electronic Ouija-Board Operator to join me in a live collective reading and playing of the Parasol Unit Foundation, building architecture, and the Merlin James exhibition temporarily housed within.   Read more

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Live Diagramming: Fig. 4

An invitation to create a live diagrammatic fiction in-relation (to each other, the exhibition objects, and the architecture of the building) through voice and physical action.
Documentation of a Live Diagramming performance at Fig.4., DRAF London.  Read more

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Live Diagramming: Fig. 4

An invitation to create a live diagrammatic fiction in-relation (to each other, the exhibition objects, and the architecture of the building) through voice and physical action.
Documentation of a Live Diagramming performance at Fig.4., DRAF London.  Read more

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Audio-fictions

Five sound pieces that draw on and interweave thinking from fields of knowledge including physics, neuroscience, psychology and philosophy.  Read more

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Audio-fictions

Five sound pieces that draw on and interweave thinking from fields of knowledge including physics, neuroscience, psychology and philosophy.  Read more

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Fig. 4 at David Roberts Art Foundation

Time Capsules and Conditions of Now simultaneously takes the form of a publication and an exhibition. The research team is made up of artists, curators and writers who have together embarked upon heterogeneous explorations of the conditions of now in the continuously shifting constellation of time-presence-gravity.  Read more

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Fig. 4 at David Roberts Art Foundation

Time Capsules and Conditions of Now simultaneously takes the form of a publication and an exhibition. The research team is made up of artists, curators and writers who have together embarked upon heterogeneous explorations of the conditions of now in the continuously shifting constellation of time-presence-gravity.  Read more

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The Sound of the Swedenborgian UFO

A site specific workshop drawing on polymath and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg’s extensive knowledge productions.

Activities included after-service tea, biscuits, conversation and singing with members of the Swedenborgian Church congregation; and outdoor group exercises drawing from techniques in psychometry, flash-fiction writing, meditation practices and chaos magic.  Read more

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The Sound of the Swedenborgian UFO

A site specific workshop drawing on polymath and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg’s extensive knowledge productions.

Activities included after-service tea, biscuits, conversation and singing with members of the Swedenborgian Church congregation; and outdoor group exercises drawing from techniques in psychometry, flash-fiction writing, meditation practices and chaos magic.  Read more

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