Sound and Ruins

Liza Kuzyakova's research on Sound and Ruins explores the terrain of tangible and intangible layers that shape electroacoustic sound. Using the ruinous thought as a speculative strategy for composition, Liza investigates perceptual tensions in listening: focusing on the interplay between the materiality of acoustic and electronic sounds, acoustic spaces, and the imaginative dimensions of aural phenomena.

On December 12th, Liza will present pieces developed through her ongoing research -- a sonic exploration of the aesthetics of fragmentation and the relationship of sound and memory. What does it mean to compose ruins? How can an architectural ruin become the metaphor for a sonic material?

Liza Kuzyakova's artistic practice spans diverse contexts, from spatial electroacoustic composition and live performance to creating sound for installations and dance.

catching the sounds of the mind

Elif Gülin Soğuksu’s research looks at catching the sounds of the mind. She explores voice as a potential that has a role in the formation of sonic imagination to be employed for dealing with electronic music composition and algorithmic performances. How accurately could one listen to the imagined sounds or create them mentally in the process of composing? How are they materialized, and through what means? 

Elif’s performance will be based on algorithmic approaches on SuperCollider and on pre-composed materials. Synthetic sounds, field recordings, micro sounds—electronic clicks, impulses, and discrete sounds—and ethereal voices and harmonies traverse the surfaces, colliding into the texture, density, and sparseness of the space. A blurry, malleable sonic space that shifts back and forth in between flashbacks of sonic memories and traces of the vocal material that plays with the mode of listening and perceptual attention, alternating in between pure, distorted, and processed vocal materials. 

Entrance to the presentations is free of charge!