Jaap Vink

En dehors

20:30 — 20:45

Striving to break away from the periodicity of sounds abundantly available in the electronic studio, pioneering Dutch electronic composer, Jaap Vink was an important member of the Institute For Sonology, Utrecht, where he worked as a teacher and composer from 1967 until retiring in 1993. Diffused by Kees Tazelaar, En dehors was produced entirely using electronic equipment, yet its sonic textures far more closely resemble the richness of an orchestra – the notes fluctuate via carefully controlled feedback networks, configured along analogue delay lines, filters and modulators.

Olivia Block

Breach

20’, 2022, Premiere

20:45 — 21:10

In this new multichannel sound composition by media artist Olivia Block, field recordings from the Laguna San Ignacio in Mexico are juxtaposed with synthesised audio material. Rather than an objective representation of a location, the combination of sonic textures creates a subjective aural space, placing the listener underwater, on the shore or inside imaginary seascapes. A UNESCO protected site, the lagoon is the winter home for Eastern Pacific grey whales. Immersed in these sonic textures, the listener might embrace the subjectivity of a listening whale sounding the depths and hearing anthropogenic noises, such as boats overhead.

Nina Garcia

MARIACHI·SME

20’, 2020 – 21

21:10 — 21:30

A mono guitar-amp plays a duet with an arrangement of eight loudspeakers, which amplify new sounds, radically disrupting and destabilising the amp's projection. MARIACHI·SME extends the sonic multiplicity of a single voice, presenting a solo performance transformed into a polyphonic cacophony, exploring all the audible parts of the guitar.