Vibrating Fields is an immersive journey inspired by the concept of "things" (mono in Japanese, hence the name of the artistic group, Mono-ha, born in the late Sixties and of which Kishio Suga is a member) present in Suga's work, in which music and sound are made visible and perceivable through the presence and interaction of bodies, objects and movements.
The evening opens with Hanna Hartman who, over the years, has amassed a fascinating collection of ordinary materials including screws, metal rods, water or even food. In her live shows, the artist assembles these objects in different ways each time, creating unpublished musical instruments, and processes the sounds, revealing their most significant and profound characteristics. Hartman's performances and music bring the audience closer to the inner nature of "things" and invite them to go beyond their visible surfaces. The evening continues with Thomas Ankersmit offering an immersive experience in which the listener's body itself is directly involved, considered by the artist as a source of sound. Ankersmit thus creates a specific listening experience for everyone that varies according to the physical conformation, position and movements of the listener's head, revealing the connection between space and our physical existence.
Vibrating Fields ends with Thomas Brinkmann, one of the key figures of the experimental techno music scene, which exploded in the late 90s, who offers a live associated with one of his reference records, Klick (2000). Following a minimal approach, Brinkmann combines sequences of sound loops made with modified vinyl and cut with a razor. By making evident the materiality and dynamics that pass through sound and audio, this artist combines them with our subjectivity and inclination towards dance.
Artist biographies
HANNA HARTMAN
Hanna Hartman is a Swedish-born sound artist, composer and performer who lives in Berlin. Since 1990 she has been creating compositions consisting exclusively of authentic sounds, which she records and develops in her performances through tactile movements and assemblages of everyday objects.
With his works, presented as works for electroacoustic music radio or sound and live installations, he has won numerous international awards including Prix Europa (1998), Karl-Sczuka-Prize (2005), Premio Phonurgia Nova (2006). In 2007 and 2008 she was composer-in-residence at Swedish Radio and participated in several festivals such as Darmstadt Summer Courses, Darmstadt; Last Oslo, Oslo; Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield; El Nicho Aural, Mexico City and Akousma, Montreal.
THOMAS ANKERSMIT
Thomas Ankersmit is a musician and composer who lives and works between Berlin and Amsterdam. Since 2006 his main instrument, both live and in the studio, is the modular synthesizer Serge. His work focuses on different acoustic phenomena such as sound resonances, infrasound vibrations, otoacoustic emissions and directional sound projections. Ankersmit has long-standing collaborations with New York minimalist composer Phill Niblock and Italian Valerio Tricoli. His work has been featured in institutions such as Hamburger Bahnhof and KW, Berlin; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Kunsthalle, Basel; MoMA PS1, New York; and at experimental and contemporary music festivals around the world. Current projects include commissions for the CTM festival in Berlin, from the German capital's techno club Berghain and for the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) in Paris, a musique concrete research group born out of the work of Pierre Schaeffer.
THOMAS BRINKMANN
Thomas Brinkmann is a German musician and producer renowned for the genre diversity of his sound work, from techno to minimal and ambient.
Brinkmann has been known since the second half of the 90s for his unique techniques. He often uses meticulously modified turntables, creating beats with self-carved vinyl records. In 1998 he founded the Max Ernst label, his own production house. Since then she has released an extensive catalog of recordings, on various labels such as Mute Records, Supposé, Raster-Noton (under the pseudonym Ester Brinkmann) and more recently on Editions Mego.
