What Sound Arts means to me

I have been intrigued the most of my life time by probably the most common and widespread artistic expression through sound waves – music – listening and indulging myself in many genres and trends of acoustic, electroacoustic and electronic music. The logical outcome of my love to music was starting to play electric guitar and then later electronic music production.

Through my interaction with the music, both as a listener and musician/producer, I have observed several aspects which always caught my attention, for example the physicality of reproduced sound during live performances and club environments. I started to break down other aspects of recorded and live musical compositions and sounds which drew my attention and questioned why they make me feel certain way in certain moments. It became a constant back and forth coming from acoustic and electroacoustic music to electronic music perceiving the sound and its aspects more consciously until isolating them, realising them more in natural and synthetic environments and having an urge to explore them as phenomenas itself.

Drones – Pleasant and calm drone of bee hives contra nervous drones of insects high in the tree crowns of the forest just before the storm hits. Drone music and ambient can be very meditative and calming but also can create a tension by oscillating in lower frequencies and adding darker textures by distorting them. 

Reverberation – sense of space and depth within music as well as natural environments. I particularly enjoy echoing of very large spaces. A visit of Chislehurst caves in South East London striked particularly me with its extremely long and pleasant decay.

These were only two examples of many phenomenas which I would like to explore.