4DSOUND: Circadian

‘NUE’, meaning silkworm in Korean, transforms the physical space of 4DSOUND as Lisa moves through the system wearing a 200-metre long white dress, weaving an intricate web of passages, pockets and walls. Confined within the web, the audience interacts with Lisa as she moves in the space, through whispering, looking, and touching. Driven by Lisa’s brainwaves, a soundworld unfolds that encompasses the audience in its unravelling structure. Sonic textures melt together or fall apart based on Lisa’s emotional state, being tense or calm, focused or distracted.

Kazuya Nagaya will perform a series of sonic immersions composed specifically for the evening or morning hours, working with spatialised gong and beat tones tuned to specific frequencies to induce deep meditative state.

Kazuya Nagaya is a Japanese artist who creates immersive, ritualised compositions through the use of bronze bells, gongs and singing bowls. Since releasing his first album ‘Utsuho’ in 1999, he has composed music for a range of projects, ranging from collaborations with Tibetan Buddhist monks to a remix for Plastikman.

Performance artist and acupuncturist Michelle Lewis-King creates bespoke sonic compositions by utilising Chinese pulse diagnosis to read the interior cosmological landscape of another person – a method that creates unique records of moments of embodied consciousness that exists between oneself and another, and between different cultural approaches for understanding and mediating the body. Pulse reading, comparative case histories real-time graphic scoring of participant’s pulses and generative soundscape compositions are techniques used to inquire into the cultural encounter between human beings, medicine and technology. Michelle will host individual pulse reading sessions for a very limited amount of participants and will publicly present the resulting sonifications of the participant’s bodies in 4DSOUND.

For 4DSOUND: Circadian, Marco Donnarumma challenges visitors with a visceral and communal ritual of sensory affection. 0:Infinity is an unstable and reactive architecture of infrasound vibrations, audible sounds and high-powered lights brought to life by and through the visitors’ bodies. The architecture grows, morphs and fall apart through time, space and frequency using biophysical signals and movement data from the visitors’ bodies. Using the Xth Sense, Donnarumma’s bio-wearable musical instrument, the inaudible sonic vibrations from the visitors’ hearts, blood flow and muscles are amplified and turned into tangible sonic material. A Ubisense location tracking system is used to make the architecture aware of the visitors’ positions and paths in space and thus morph according to the spatial relation between participants. The intimacy, or lack thereof, of the visitor’s encounters in space drives intense sonic and physical resonances. Human body parts and machine parts are configured into a total space of networked bodies.

Robert Jan Liethoff is a Berlin-based actor, dramaturgist and voice movement teacher. His work draws on the aspects of voice physiology as a departure point for the development of sound-oriented bodywork.

Robert will host a sound lecture for 4DSOUND: Circadian inviting participants to explore a physical listening practice. Can we activate and sharpen our auditory perception? What do our ears consider a healthy sound texture? And what influence does this have on our spatial-sound-awareness, both internal and external? We try to get a sense of our intelligent physical self through refined listening in a 4DSOUND environment.

‘NOQTURNL’ is an overnight audiovisual meditation exploring collective dreamstate, by visual artist and art director Florence To and sound designer and 4DSOUND’s creative director John Connell. Noqturnl takes participants through a series of spaces as they drift between waking and dreaming throughout the night. Conveyed through patterns and structures of light and shifting soundscapes working with tones, field recordings and voice, individual dream environments are evoked with their own distinct moods and interactions. A meditative experience, ‘NOQTURNL’ offers participants the chance for a dialogue with non-ordinary states of awareness and self-reflection.