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Performance | Installation | Séance | Sonic Sabotage.
Pocket Artist Residency @ Errant Sound
Sat 18th 5-7 pm: happy hour and informal Q&A with the artists
Sun 19th 6-9 pm: performative installation, ongoing
Location:
Errant Sound @ MissRead
Gerichtstrasse 45 / Backyard, 13347 Berlin-Wedding
Errant Sound is excited to host jessie beier & remy bocquillon´s The Feedback Organ at the Gerichtstrasse 45 (Errant Sound@Miss Read). Join us for a happy hour on Saturday from 5 to 7 pm to experience the project and chat with the artists in an informal atmosphere. You are also welcome to drop by on Sunday between 6 and 9 pm, to listen to The Feedback Organ in interaction with the artists.
A machine that plays a score. A score that machines a play. A play that scores a machine.
The Feedback Organ is an experimental machine-in-the-making that vibrates across dead air and broken timelines. Equal parts performance, installation, séance, and sonic sabotage, this contraption conjures the long-lost ghosts of pirate frequencies and the unheard-of ghoulies of algorithmic noise. Through a tangled ecology of radios, samplers, tapes, delay loops, and live-coded scripts, this machinic organ—part nervous system, part scrapyard ritual—will pulse and twitch and crawl its way across analogue and digital surfaces, leaving feedback trails and sonic scars in its wake.
At the heart of this organ lies sampling—as theft, homage, haunting, ritual detuning, forensic poetics, and the exhumation of dead signals. Snippets from online streams, pirate broadcasts, forgotten tapes, and live room recordings will be spliced, fractured, folded, and fed to this feedback beast as it gnaws its way through the corpse of memory. Here we work with, not against, feedback—embracing recursive loops that double back on themselves, mutating with every return, breeding new distortions, new resonances, new noise.
Recordings will be layered and looped, but also sometimes left to rot—tapes burned in the sun, overwritten until threadbare, succumbing to sticky tape syndrome: that strange affliction of media and memory where magnetic particles unspool into viscous ruin, a slow ooze of encoded history clinging to plastic like skin to bone. Field recordings, stray microphones, and synthetic voices (as well as our own) will drift in and out like rogue memories, errant dreams, and thought fragments. Maybe the machines can sound out what we forget.
We will play this organ, and, in turn, it will play us—unfolding as a radio play that is neither fully scripted nor entirely improvised, but something in between: a strange choreography of signal and noise unsettling the cybernetic machine, unraveling potentialities for (un-)sound individuation. In performance, the radio play will become less a broadcast and more a living system—or perhaps a dying one—stuttering, looping, becoming dis-organ-ized. Structured through a series of movements—loosely scored yet open to interruption—the performance will operate as a ‘pataphysical theatre of machinic operations’. At times, the machine might direct us, algorithmically proposing actions we did not choose. At other moments, we might resist—detuning the signal in order to sabotage the loop.
Through these feedback loops of obedience and rebellion, the organ—machinic, bodily, spectral—mutates into an instrument of conjuration, pulsing with echoes of Artaud’s trembling lips (To Have Done with the Judgment of God), Basinski’s disintegrating loops, Lucier’s recursive utterances (I am sitting in a room), and the bruised circuits of techno-feminist resistors such as Sarah Sharma, Daphne Oram, and the Sisters with Transistors.
jessie beier and rémy bocquillon are a duo of artist-philosophers working in the weird intervals between sociology, pedagogy, media studies, eco-political theory, energy (in)humanities and extinction studies. Through experiments with sonic thinking, underground atmospherics, and algorithmic conjuring, their collaborations tune tangential encounters into speculative infrastructures that practice theory-making as collective heresy.
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