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Anechoic Chamber Embroidery on coton, 2024, 80 x 100 cm 

Echo chamber Embroidery on coton, 2024, 80 x 100 cm

Hiss (violet) / Hush (black) / Rush (pink) / Rustle (green) / Soothe (brown) / Sough (white) / Swish (grey) / Whiz (blue)

Glass, acoustic foam,

Presented in a handmade boxes made by Bas Lafleur, 2022

Noise Spectrum is a series of glass works that originates from a long-lasting interest in sound.The series is inspired by the noise spectrum; a range of eight different sound signals, named as colours, that correspond to a particular frequency, which the listener couples with specific material associations and states of mind. This sense of colour for noise signals is similar to the concept of timbre in music.

Noise-cancelling foam is used to mold pieces of glass in a rippled pattern, resembling sound waves. The reflective surface of the glass gives the pieces an even more liquid, transformative appearance. The collection of glass works is presented in foam-lined boxes, as jewels meant to amplify the beauty of noise.

With the kind support of Stichting Niemeijer Fonds and Jump! Talenthub.

December 1952 (After Earle Brown)

Video with binaural sound, 8.25 min, 2021

The work derives from a graphical music notation by Earle Brown: December 1952. The notation is transformed into a three-dimensional space through which movement becomes possible, the camera functioning as an entity that occupies place and perspective. The various movements are translated into an auditory experience, in which the relationship between subject and object is explored. How do we relate to our environment? To an architecture or object? What exactly causes you to be attracted to something and react? What moves you? Moments of physical presence and tangibility alternate with abstract cosmic resonances. A continuous interaction between the small and the large. Sound can resonate the whole tonality of life.

Photos by Peter Cox

Headphones recommended

Original notation of December 1952 by Earle Brown (1972)

Nine Bells

Performance, 2020

Nine Bells was composed by Tom Johnson in 1979. After he performed the piece several times himself, he published the notation of Nine Bells to allow other musicians and performers to perform Nine Bells. Which bells to be used is free to the performer. I created 9 tubular aluminium bells. In Nine Bells the natural order is expressed in several layers. The geometric patterns determine the walking route of the performer, but also the character of the sound: the star expresses itself in a cosmic slow sound and the circle in a rotating cadence that ends where it started. Nine Bells has an almost ritualistic character. I approach the study and performance of Nine Bells as the ritual that I perform for the music, the space, the time, being there.

Photos by Loes van Duijvendijk

Geomatric walking patterns of Nine Bells

Compose Performance, 2014