For Deleuze and Guattari, nature is the total set of flows and the total interlocking set of machines that cut into these flows, extract something from them, alter them, and generate new entities as a result. The digital apparatuses act as a machine for the sound flow. They can sample sound and turn it into unhomed objects by capturing, manipulating, synthesizing, and reactualizing.
What do these unhomed objects present for aesthetic and metaphysical apprehension?
What do they tell us about the digital and physical infrastructures behind these processes of constant territorialization and deterritorialization, actualization, and virtualization?
“Unhomed Objects” is a two hour-long radio show on CampFR radio, compiled from the contributions of composers and sound artists from around the world. Each piece addresses the call theme in its own unique way: From capturing CRT TV noise to the sonification of vibrational data of the oceanic divergent plate boundary of the North American Plate. From exploring sound as matter by manipulating the sounds of metallic pots and the memories found in cupboards to sonic congruences between the piano and electroacoustics through relational behaviors. It is a metaphysical journey into the encounter of sonic flux with digital apparatuses.
PART I
Jonas Gazell – Premonition Peak
Biography
Jonas Gazell (b. 1979 Sweden), works with audio-based sculpture and installation that explores interplay and friction between man and technology. He is educated at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts and holds a degree in sound art from the Nordic Sound Art Programme.
Project Description
Premonition Peak is a sound collage of CRT TVs being turned on and off.
Our senses are linked to memory in different ways and in variable strengths. Ivan Pavlov concluded that an organism could learn which stimuli preceded important events and whether these stimuli are naturally linked to the events or not. During his experiment, Pavlov utilized a bell sound every time before serving food to dogs. Repeated over time, the bell sound constituted a conditioned stimulus, always followed by the food. At the end of his experiment, the dogs continued to salivate at the sound of the bell regardless if the food was present or not. The work “Premonition Peak” explores the automatic reactions stored in us with an anticipation of a following event related to the sound technology produces, reactions that are activated through our relationship with these devices.
Guillermo Eisner – Esculturas temporales
Biography
Guillermo Eisner (Uruguay 1980)
Doctor in Music Composition by Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He studies music and composition in Chile, Spain, Portugal and Mexico. Since 2019 he is a full-time professor in the Department of Sound of the Faculty of Arts at the Universidad de Chile.
Project Description
Esculturas temporales is arranged as a continuum of sound fragments that seeks to construct diverse ways of sculpting time, diverse gestures, diverse paths of accumulation, and distension of energies. Composed exclusively from double bass samples, the work takes sound as a malleable material and proposes to sculpt on it as if we could grasp it, take it, feel it with our hands. In short, it is a vain attempt to make tangible an ephemeral material such as sound, of which we can only verify the temporal and spatial experience that its fleeting presence leaves us with.
Nikos Stavropoulos – Khemenu
Biography
Nikos Stavropoulos (Athens, Greece, 1975) is a composer of predominantly acousmatic and mixed music. His music is performed and broadcast regularly around the world and has been awarded internationally on several occasions.
Project Description
Stereo reduction of HoA composed at ICST in Zurich in July 2022.
“The peculiarities of the monad and the hebdomad are the most beautiful “
ToNY – Wall Of Breath
Biography
Graduated in Electronic Eng. at Polytechnic of Bari and at the Conservatory of MUSIC of Bari(IT), graduated in Electronic Music. He attended seminars with D. Dufour, K. Saariaho, L. Francesconi, A. DiScipio, G. Nottoli, and N. Collins. He studies and participates with Sin[x]Thésis, a group for research and production for the sound-image interaction.
Feliciano Chiriaco – Vacuus
Biography:
F. Chiriaco is an Italian electroacoustic composer. His music and multimedia works have been commissioned and performed at international festivals around the world. He worked as a sound engineer and electroacoustic composer on important projects. He currently teaches Electroacoustic Music at the Conservatory da Palestrina in Cagliari.
Project Description
“Spinning around and getting lost in the dark vacuity, confused by the total lack of importance and feeling.”
Berk Yağli – Ideological Distortion
Biography
Berk Yağli (born 1999) is a Cypriot guitarist, composer, and producer. His mission with his music has been to talk about social, political, and philosophical matters interestingly to invite the listeners into reflecting on the topics. He has been active in the UK since 2017. His works have been presented internationally.
Project Description
Ideological Distortion is a piece that explores the dark side of today’s media, the dilution of ideologies, and constant bombardment of confusion. It invites the listener into reflecting on the issues and feel the horror and hate that is constantly imposed on society whether we individuals are lucid about it or not.
Sandra Zanetti – Generative Adversarial Network
Biography
Sandra Zanetti’s practice deconstructs the complexities of underlying systems, stories, and ideologies in relation to progression, innovation, and regression throughout cycles of time.
Project Description
This track is from a series I created from field recordings, and vibrational data from the oceanic divergent plate boundary of the North American Plate and the Eurasian plate while in residence at Fish Factory in Stöðvarfjörður Iceland.
Guess Lou – Wallpoem
Biography
Guess Lou, 1990, is a sound artist from Gorgan, Iran, where she is currently based. Language, nature, science and climate change are her fields of interest and playground.The relationships formed by the placement of natural objects together and creating an environment for species have been the main source of her inspiration.
Project Description
After the rise of the women life freedom movement in Iran, many young people started spraying walls of cities and towns with slogans. The media was full of their videos with sounds which their acts made. The number of acts was so many which made me think that this is a new sound layer added to the soundscape of the city. I made this piece by writing a poem on the wall. There was at first a poem. By writing, it turned into a painting. And the sound this act of painting made became my material for producing Wallpoem. I became a transformer between mediums through this journey. The poem I chose to write on the wall is Divar(Wall) written by Hossein Monzavi (Published in 1971).
Aleksandar Koruga – Nefes Alma
Biography
Aleksandar Koruga (1989) born in Osijek, Yugoslavia (Croatia). M.A. in Sonology (Royal Conservatory in Den Haag, 2021). His research is mainly focused on implementing non-linear feedback/chaotic dynamics systems and the use of neural networks and AI as means of dialogue and control along the human-machine assemblage.
Serge Bulat – Normality
Biography
Serge Bulat is a multi-disciplinary artist, hailing from the Moldovan-Ukrainian border town. Known for the IMA-winning ‘Queuelbum’, psychological installation ‘Inkblot’, and the experimental game ‘Wurroom’. In recent years Bulat traveled to 13 countries, collecting signature and disappearing sounds which are the basis for his sonic experimentations.
Project Description
“Normality” dares to question our definition of normality. Delivered by the means of interpretive sound design, visuals, and spoken word, its’ goal is creating space for a rise of the new formula. Following the Rorschach test principle, it invites the audience’s interpretation. What is your definition of normality? Is your formula influenced by the current experience of the environment?
“I strongly disagree with the definition of “normal” and hope that my project will broaden the understanding of individuality, identity; embracing differences, and treating them as advantages and not faults” – Serge Bulat.
Eleazar Garzón – Mundo lata II
Biography
He lives in the City of Córdoba, Argentina. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Music at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Buenos Aires. His works have been performed in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Singapore, Greece, Poland.
Project Description
“Mundo lata II” is a piece based on the sounds of metallic pots that are combined to create dynamic chains that emulate complex machines whose usefulness is unknown.
Iris Chun-Tzu Chang – Living Room Project #3
Biography
Iris Chun-Tzu Chang (TW) is an artist and researcher currently based in Taiwan. Like sound as clay, Iris crafts her work through drawing, poetry, installation, field recording, and improvised performance. Her research focuses on the themes of sonic memory, imaginary sound, interspecies listening, and synesthetic experiences.
Gregory Kramer – Melting Neapolitan
Biography
Gregory Kramer is a multidisciplinary artist working with sound and space. Taking inspiration from his archaeological curiosity of abandoned places, he seeks ghosts among ruins and unearths evidence of forgotten histories through sound. He composes with field recordings, found materials, electronics, and builds electronic sound devices.
Project Description
Melting Neapolitan is a soundwork composed from field recordings of three distinct ice cream trucks. For many people, the sounds of ice cream trucks are evocative of time and place. These three ice cream truck sounds (representing strawberry, chocolate and vanilla flavors of Neapolitan ice cream) are processed to be distant and atmospheric, yet familiar.
PART II
Manuella Blackburn – Cupboard Love
Biography
Manuella Blackburn is an electroacoustic music composer who specializes in fixed media creation. Manuella’s practice focuses on microscopic sonic detail and how these miniature materials can be organised within works of sound art.
Project Description
This composition explores the memories found in cupboards, draws and cabinets. Scraps of paper, photographs and mementos come to life through sonic snapshots of earlier times. Opening and closing cupboards offers an inviting gesture to enter new sonic worlds; a cliche of the acousmatic genre, but reimagined here as an everyday action that frames the appearance of sound memories. This open/close action reveals environments, places and spaces, showing brief sonic glimpses of my past years. A key influence guiding the work’s construction was the concept of the interruption. Exploring interruptions in all its forms and how these impact upon continuity was an important step for developing the work’s structure.
Fulya Uçanok – Invisible Congruences
Biography
I’m an electroacoustic musician and pianist, composing, performing, and improvising. My work takes forms of score-based or improvised performance, artistic research, and experimentation with pianos, objects, electronic processing, and sound recordings. I’m interested in exploring the interfaces of connection within socio-sonic sound engagements.
Project Description
Invisible Congruences is an electroacoustic work for acoustic piano and electroacoustics. The piece explores forms of sonic congruences between the piano and electroacoustics through a variety of relational behaviors. Through these relational zones, congruences between agents take various sonic forms, investigated through parameters of pitch/tuning, noise, timbre, time, and space. Agents move through separations and congruences, as they relate-in-difference within a shared sonic habitat.
Chin Ting Chan – Shadow Objects
Biography
Hong Kong-American composer Chin Ting CHAN has been a fellow and guest composer at festivals such as IRCAM’s ManiFeste, ISCM World Music Days Festival, and UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers. His recordings appear in more than fifteen albums, and his scores are published through BabelScores and Universal Edition.
www.chintingchan.com
Project Description
Shadow Objects is inspired by observing the shadow of a three-dimensional object cast on a two-dimensional plane. The shape of it looks distorted, broken, and unrecognizable at times, while moving in a sporadic yet expressive way. Using this as a metaphor, one can discover endless beauty in the struggle and imperfection of life. Eventually, they become appreciative of what might appear to be fragile, or even faulty on the surface.
Cameron Naylor – Spent
Biography
Cameron Naylor is an electroacoustic composer and sound artist. Through the manipulation of field recording and abstract sound material, his compositions explore sound and space as a metaphor in musical storytelling.
Project Description
Spent is an exploration of deconstruction, abstraction, and assemblage of sounds to create a series of shifting spaces and contexts. Through the manipulation of a single sound source, I aimed to create a wealth of sound material with which I could piece together to create a new and evolving soundworld, with allusions to both real and abstract spaces and materials, free of all original context.
Nicolas Vazquez (NKV) – PINO
Biography
Sound artist, electronic performer,Experimental sound projects. Soundscapes Biodiversity
Sound works designed to intervene in physical spatiality
Construction of soundscapes through Biodiversity and field recording, synthesis, drone and noise techniques,
Creation of interactive sound installations
Project Description
The PINO sound piece is part of an artistic map that, based on a research and search process, an INTERFACE DEVICE, called DI, allowed me to dialogue with trees and its translation into different artistic expressions, generating a soundscape as an ambassador of the Tree species.
Jorge Martínez Valderrama – Metales Sensibles (Sensitive Metals)
Biography
He is interested in aesthetic phenomena of contemporary, electro-acoustic and acousmatic music. His work is based on field recording and is developed under the concepts of perception, poetics and pareidolia. His work reflects on the implications of sound in different contexts and ecosystems, collective creation, and sound-environmental activism.
Project Description
“Sensitive Metals” is an interactive installation created by the plastic artist Rodrigo Palacios Murillo. This work collects everyday metal objects that represent the daily interactions, activities and tasks of the inhabitants of Mexico City. In 2017, a strong earthquake shook the metropolitan area of the country, many people lost their homes and their belongings. Within the rescue efforts, many objects were found and collected waiting to be claimed. Among them were household metal objects, keys, coins, kitchen utensils, office supplies, screws, parts of electronic equipment, etc. The work is a multimedia memorial that uses some of these objects as raw material, the acousmatic pieces were created with the sounds of these objects and detonated interactively using sensors.
Part structure:
1) Housing I
2) Housing II
3) Bureaucracy
4) Equivalent
Matt Rogerson – Substitute Horizons
Biography
Matt Rogerson is a neurodivergent musician, sound artist and live artist based in Leicester, UK. His research-practice investigates the interdisciplinary convergence of sonic auto-ethnography, disability studies and electroacoustic music to elucidate the idiosyncratic, yet revealing, autistic cognition.
Project Description
A transgressive ecology of provocative sounds; engendered via a repertoire of provocative systems such as binaural entrainment facilitated by FM synthesis, spectrally treated acoustic feedback, and pulsar synthesis, tailored to induce sensory overload of, and provide an evocative auto-ethnographic representation towards, the authors ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder).
Sylvain Souklaye – ce que parler veut dire (broken tongue’s cut)
Biography
Sylvain Souklaye is a Brooklyn-based French multi-modal artist obsessed with sampling intimacies about people who don’t belong to a determinate identity, gender, class, colour, or nationality.
His methods characteristically involve intense physical acts as well as the use of unsettling intimacy.
Arshan Najafi – Sons de Malheur
Biography
Arshan Najafi (b. 2001) is a Composer, Sound Artist, Visual Artist, and Poet.
His pieces have been presented and published by Spectro Centre for New Music, Noise a Noise records, Petrichor Records, Unexplained Sounds Group, Cold Spring Records, and XOR Space.
Project Description
“Sons de Malheur” is a composition of 37 accidental and irrelevant field recordings which were recorded on my iPhone over the past year, narrating a story of the pain and sorrow surrounding some of us in the everyday-life. The feeling of unfulfillment, loneliness, suffering, anxiety and the apprehension of the unknown which drives us to shed the blood of our own and run without a destination or home.
Luca Nasciuti – What We Have Given
Biography
Luca Nasciuti is a composer and artist based in London and Cairo. He uses field recordings to build complex soundscapes. His sound is urgent and physical, rooted in the natural and man-made sources he employs.
Project Description
The composition combines fragments of melodies recorded on the cello with field recordings of the composer’s family home. The piece has an intimate connection with childhood memories, time, and loss.