artist talk, concert, electroacoustic music, event, Performance
20. February 2025 20:00 Performances and Artist Talk
Errant Sound, Gerichtstr. 45, 13347 Berlin
Entry – suggested donation
Errant Sound invites you to a performance event at our new space in Berlin-Wedding.
Curated by Fluctuating Images, in collaboration with manifest:io Festival, and Liebig 12.
More information: http://www.fluctuating-images.de
Technologies of Consciousness: Numinous Machines + Supporting Acts by Alessandra Eramo and Nico Daleman
TECHNOLOGIES OF CONSCIOUSNESS: Numinous Machines
The collective Technologies of Consciousness (Montreal) will give an improvisational insight into their performance NUMINOUS MACHINES, followed by a talk. Numinous Machines is an audiovisual performance that explores the enigmatic threshold experienced during near-death. Drawing inspiration from these profound moments intertwined with Yantras (sacred geometry), the performance delves into the convergence of the natural world, technology, and the ethereal more-than-human realm. Utilizing macroscopy, modified turntables, and biodisks, the synthesis of sound and images becomes a captivating journey through a graphical notation governed by the innate law of decomposition. Exploring the connection between touch, sound reproduction, and materiality, the performance delves into the physicality of sound, bridging the tactile art of “turntablism” and techniques that transcribe sound into tangible forms.
Visual, sound and bio-composite research: Sonya Stefan & Stephanie Castonguay
Collaborators: Sarah Williams, Gabrielle Harnois-Blouin, Patti Schmidt, Martin Tétreault, Jean-Michel Thellen, Anne-Françoise Jacques, Gabrielle Harnois-Blouin, Patti Schmid, Anne-Françoise Jacques, Gabrielle HB, Jackie Gallant, Sonya Stefan, Stephanie Castonguay, Vivian Li, Jackson Darby (Personal Touch Vinyl), Cristobal Urbina (See You Mastering)
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Montréal-based collective Technologies of Consciousness is made up of two multidisciplinary artists, Sonya Stefan and Stephanie Castonguay. Motivated by the porous and undefined intersections between art, media, and science, TECHNOLOGIES OF CONSCIOUSNESS seek to define our biological consciousness through our shared potential to feel a deep and meaningful communion with the sphere of Nature. Driven by the spirit of DIY, their projects embrace a radical and popular perspective of non-expertise, demystifying the organic world in relation to the healing of the body, and the processes of decomposition and the notion of the end of the cycle. Recently, Stephanie Castonguay and Sonya Stefan completed the short film SENTIENT BEINGS, featured in competition at RVCQ and the International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA). They have also been artists in long-term residence at the Biosphere of Montreal, in partnership with C.A.M. and REPAIRE. Their research is infused with a critical approach, addressing circular economy, democratization of knowledge, and evolving materiality.
www.technologies-of-consciousness.com
http://www.stephaniecastonguay.com
http://www.sonyastefan.com
ALESSANDRA ERAMO: Solo for Voice and Electronics
Alessandra Eramo’s live performance centres on the voice, exploring its relationship with noise and the environment. Through a collage of hypnotic soundscapes and voices, she transcends sound and delves into deeper layers of poetic expression. Beatboxing, tongue clicking, screeching, hissing: she navigates trance-like states of singing using extended vocal techniques, non-verbal vocalisations, raw noise, melodies, distortions, fragmented words and unknown languages. These are interwoven with a dynamic use of field recordings, feedback, samplers and pre-recorded sonic material. Drawing on the tradition of sound poetry, her sound performance seeks to generate an immersive acoustic experience – like a spiritual practice shared with the audience.
Alessandra Eramo is a Berlin-based artist, vocalist, and composer working with sound performance, installation, video, drawing, and text. She explores the human voice and noise as socio-political matters, often addressing themes of the body, memory, migration, and identity through participatory actions, field recordings, and experimental composition. She has exhibited and performed internationally at renowned venues and museums and is a co-founder of Corvo Records, as well as a member of the Errant Sound collective in Berlin.
www.ezramo.com
NICO DALEMAN: Noise Re(in)duction
Sonic Intervention on the Transductive Aesthetics of Sonic Derbis
Noise Re(in)duction puts into perspective the cultural differences of the concept of noise, while also questioning the noise reduction algorithms’ inherent biases. My research understands noise as a constitutive part of our sonic environments and our political Zeitgeist. In a world of hyper-mediation and overconsumption, challenging the listening practices encouraged by tech corporations recontextualizes (sonic) climate (in)justice by bringing awareness to our social relationship with noise. Who gets to decide what is noise pollution? Who has the privilege to access silence?
Nico Daleman is a Colombian-born sound artist and researcher based in Berlin. His compositions and installations propose radical forms of sonic perception through reconfigurations of the spectral and spatio-temporal characteristics of sound. With a background in audio engineering and musicology, his research focuses on music technology, cybernetics, and artificial intelligence. Daleman’s work has been presented in notable venues across Germany and Colombia, and he is also a member of the Errant Sound collective in Berlin and hosts his monthly show “The Rest is Music” on Cashmere Radio.
www.nicodaleman.com
Technologies of Consciousness is supported by AVATAR, MUTEK; Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts
Photo credits © Stéphane Bourgeois, Charlotte Bonin, Camille Blake, Nico Daleman
