composition for small exhibition
For a small exhibition in Egg/Vorarlberg, Austria, I was asked to compose a little sound collage using different bell sound, which were recorded by children during a workshop led by Thomas Felfer, sound ecologist and curator based in Graz. The exhibition called “Schellenklang” is dedicated to the cultural history of the cattle bell – spanning the arc from the herd bell to the trophy.
The exhibition took place from April 11 – October 26, 2025. www.egg-museum.at/
listen to the sound piece here:
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 called “Musikkapelle”. My instrument resulted in a wooden arc, deriving as an abstraction of the harp that I’ve been playing 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.
