Sound Art

The world of sound art is sometimes far removed from techno but provides a new and different way of engaging with sound and performance. drusnoise plays with the concepts of sonfication of data, disclosure, feedback, and interaction with the natural world. Keen to merge themes of sustainability with sound art in today’s eco-challenging climate, drusnoise builds sound art performances from a plethora of natural sources.

Rusting metal and missing cogs topped up with AI

Rusting metaldrusnoise

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Engaging with Neodymium embedded in rare earth magnets inside geophones, in circuit boards and inductors, in transducer magnets and sensors in hydrophones. Composed and mixed on a laptop that itself embeds even more Nd. A feedback loop between sound and element, composer and machine, human and AI, air and water and earth.

Speculative materials: Hydrophone recording at turbine intake of Vamma Hydroelectric Power Station, Askim, NO. Contact microphone feedback recording with electromagnetic listening device sending into transducer on metal plate. ‘I feel that we’re more like cyborgs’ text by Laureline Simon performed by artificial intelligence voices. Dialup modem handshake. Electromagnetic field listening device playing sounds of electronic music power supplies, processed through modular synthesizers.

Vamma field recording supported by UiO Energy & Environment, Unruly Sustainability with permission from Hafslund Kraft.

We are but dust and shadows

New composition as part of Artistic Research in Residence at the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics in Graz, Austria. Piece built around air pollution data, field recordings, and granular synthesis. Public performance in November/December 2023,

Quantum Inspired Sound
05.11.2023

Collaborative live sonic lecture with Prof. Anja Metelmann, Professor at the Institute for Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics and the Institute for Quantum Materials and Technologies at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Performed live with modular synths, samplers, contact microphones interpreting quantum concepts through sound.

Berlin Science Week

Can you hear the Earth breathing?

‘Can you hear the Earth breathing?’ brings to life sustainability cycles and the natural (and un-natural) systems that lie beneath the production and absorption of carbon dioxide.

Seated Movement