sound studies & spatial sound

In the past years I observed a growing fascination for exploring sounds in my direct surroundings and collecting recordings. Also I started to feel a strong need to do something with this sonic treasures, and this is how I started to dive into the realm of sonic studies in order to analyze my sound archive with a more auto-ethnographic approach. I hope that in the next year my findings will accumulate in compositions for different settings, but also especially for ambisonics.

Or*instrument workshop & performance

In September 2021, I participated in the Ars Electronica Futurelab’s 4-week workshop “Or*instrument,” in which we participants were challenged to invent sound instruments using origami folding techniques. The idea for the workshop was based on Matthew Gardiner’s long-running research project Ori*botics.

The prototype I developed together with Yazdan Zand, was based on the “Resch4” folding technique by artist, computer scientist, and geometrician Ron Resch. We investigated how geometry shaped the paper instrument itself and how this affected the stability and movement of the connected elements. This movement gave us insight into where to place the conductive foil and how to “play” the instrument.

The results of the workshop were performed as part of the Futurelab Night Performances program at the 2021 Ars Electronica Festival.

Image Credit: Denise Hirtenfelder

performance at Musikkapelle 2019

In the framework of the course “playful interface” during the first semester of Interface Culture master programme, the task was to invent an instrument and perform it at the concert event “Musikkapelle”, at the end of the semester. My instrument resulted in a wooden arc, deriving as an abstraction of the harp that I played for several years. I finally played the wooden arc as a percussion interface amplified by a piezo and connected to a Max MSP patch, with which I explored harp like sounds triggered by touching the wood and moving it on different surfaces.