Soft wind sounds are diffused by two metal tubes. With the help of your breath you can change the weather: by blowing against the black anemometer the wind turns. If the human breath results in a change in the weather…
Empty Chairs
Empty Chairs stages three empty chairs, each with a loudspeaker attached. A system of live recorded sounds and electronic processing brings them to life. A performer interacts with the chairs by moving them, placing them in new formations, and trying out different…
Wings
One loudspeaker and three microphones are placed opposite eachother. The volume is turned up, and acoustic feedback occurs between the microphones and speaker. Three performers manipulate the feedback by shifting foam-board panels around, creating new spaces with every movement and…
Cheering for others makes you a leader
Pompons and cheers such as hurrah, yippie, yeah are the elements for this performance. With the help of sensors my gestures control the electronic processing of all the hurrah-sounds. The performance can also be understood as an investigation in what…
Breeze
Five music stands are placed in a semi circle. Crumpled oversized sheets of paper stand on the music stand. The leaves move slowly and sound soft when the visitor comes in. Big sheets of paper on the stands are slowly…
Hearing Sirens
A usual fashion to hear music nowadays is through headphones. The mp3-player made more music transportable than ever before and public spaces are crowded nowadays with people, living in their own acoustic world. My project is about reversing this situation….
Song No 3
Song No 3 is a performance during which I use arm gestures normally used by singers as a byproduct of their singing performance as a means to control electronic sound. I am not making any noises with my voice. Instead,…
Klangverordnung
Many sounds have been forbidden during the last centuries, like singing and shouting in the streets, motor noises, carpet beatings, car hooping and even the barking of the dogs. I bring these forbidden noises, that have been silenced by law, back in the city. Evidently by not having…
Double Beat
This performance is for a pregnant woman. During the performance, the woman inflates plastic bags with her breath. By inflating the bags, the sound of heart beats becomes audible. The woman’s heart beats as well as the heart beats of…
Music Stands
What normally stays silent during a musical performance—a music stand—is creating the sound in this performance. Two music stands are unfolded at the start of the performance. Both are amplified using a contact microphone glued onto the stand and a…