stories by ear

Klanginstallation
UA 30. April 2025, KORDON, Kärdla, Hiiumaa, Estland

sound installation
first performance April 30th, 2025, KORDON, Kärdla, Hiiumaa, Estonia

Sound installation for a listening spot in public space and sounding objects indoors.
stories by ears was realised during the artistic residency at KORDONair, Kärdla, Hiiumaa, Estonia.

How natural and real is a sound environment when it is recorded? Especially when heard through the ears of a foreigner? Sounds easily appear to be extraordinary and new if heard for the very first time or in a specific situation. When habits of perception are put into question, also listening to familiar sounds in a familiar place can trigger new forms of attention.

During my artistic residency at KORDON, I collected field recordings on the island Hiiumaa to compose an electroacoustic piece for a multichannel sound installation. Besides sound manipulation with electronic processing, the piece is played back not as usual with common loudspeakers but through various material like wood, concrete, tiles, etc., to change the sound characteristics and timbres of the field recordings additionally in an analogue way.
The music oscillates between states of recognition, alienation and uncertainty about the perceived and balances between the boundaries of the original and the recorded, the natural and the manipulated, the real and the abstract sound.