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abstract textures, silence and sonic relationships

Listening Textures explores the parameters of materials, non-human voices and abstraction with four sound artists. The research areas of the artists vary from the Rotterdam harbour, the delicacy of empty space and electronics. This edition of Flipchart provides an international evening with Ege Şahin and his Soaked to the Ears oil-barrel-radio-soundscape, Kristina Warren with her the space in between piece and the duo Tancrede D.Kummer & Uldis Vitols with their sonic-mobile installation UKEMI. Curated by Leon Lapa Pereira.

Kristina Warren

Kristina Warren (*1989, US) is a sound artist, composer, performer, and instrument builder based on Wampanoag and Narragansett land also known as Providence, Rhode Island [US]. Both in solo projects and in collaborative work including curating, Warren believes that collective listening is a precious and political act. Warren uses self-designed and received audio tools to create performances, installations, and recorded works, whose recent “ASMR drone” style uses quieter volumes and careful arrangements to help audiences perceive their own listening. Her work has been called “precise and unpredictable” (Marc Masters, Bandcamp) and “a combination of the synthetic and the fuzzy with the deeply human” (Brian McCorkle, Jazz Right Now).

Kristina Warren plans to perform a continuous set of approximately 25 minutes in duration. In her work she is very interested in the notion of “the space in between,” the role of silence in sound, and the individual and collective ways we perceive our own listening. Therefore, she offers the audience a precise yet relaxed listening environment.

Ege Şahin

Born in Turkey and based in The Hague Ege Şahin makes avant-garde experimental ambient music and sound works falling around composition, performance, and sound art. Having a background in jazz, he likes to play with various types of guitars, synths, field recordings, and club bangers to emerge evocative and emotive music. He hosts ‘RE-CHILDING’ a monthly radio concert series on RadioWorm, where each time a new guest is invited to improvise, explore, and discuss sonic issues. He is also a resident at Root Radio curating themed sets on the second Thursday of each month exploring notions such as sensibility, ecology, and temporality.

Soaked to the Ears lends an ear to the sonic relationships of human and non-human objects situated in and around the Port of Rotterdam through on-site research, underwater, ultrasonic, and field recordings, and experiments that are used in the production of an audiovisual sound installation comprised of 3 modified oil barrels with interactive radios and an 8-channel speaker system surrounding the barrels.

Tancrede D.Kummer & Uldis Vitols

Tancrede D.Kummer – Drummer, improviser and composer evolving across composed, form-based and improvised music; within various genres, disciplines and creative ventures. Uldis Vitols is a Latvian multi-instrumentalist, sound artist, and composer whom expands his artistic output by creating works using field recordings and sound synthesis. 

UKEMI is a sonic work featuring two live performers, a quadraphonic room set-up, as well as scenography framing the audience; in and around them. Conceived as a sonic-mobile installation, the performance develops in weaving modules orbiting one another, alternatively using densely layered rhythmical frames or abstract textures. The narration merges destructive improvisations, noise, and live electronics to outline and distort intense soundscapes.

Leon Lapa Pereira

A cross-disciplinary performance researcher who develops experienceable ecologies between humans and more-than-humans. Through anthropomorphizing; methods, relational worlds and biological processes are translated into movement, robotic agents and performances.

Flipchart is presented by iii with financial support from Creative Industries Fund NL and The Municipality of The Hague.