EN
Website

Sound performance

The digital environment can hardly be perceived as a unified space, it is a rather complex ecosystem of human and non-human agents. It is unlikely hierarchical and centralised, not without stoppages, dark spots, closures and its own forms of control. The digital is a space that connects, morphs massive virtual (are they really?) distances, different bodies, and data. Sonic Portals is a speculative digital environment, a matrix that presents sonic possible worlds made by students of HSE University (Sound Art & Sound Studies Department). Portals, having several meanings, can be perceived as an architectural entrance, a web-based platform, connecting different sources, a passage to different worlds, getting more mythological. In Sonic Portals we play with various meanings and create a complex aural environment. The project in a way is an escape from the familiar perception of virtual space where the focus is on the visual. Sonic Portals is a digital environment where the sound becomes the main agent questioning the possibility to create decentralised and fluid space. Each listener gets their own experience drifting through multichannel works, navigating through different portals.

Olga Zubova (RU): sound and visual artist, performer, art historian, and a curator. MA student (Sound Art & Sound Studies, HSE University)

Katya Volkova (RU): interdisciplinary artist, curator. MA student (Sound Art & Sound Studies, HSE University)

Maria Karpovich (RU): sound artist, photographer, screenwriter, MA student (Sound Art & Sound Studies, HSE University)

Gleb Yakushev (RU): sound artist, programmer, MA student (Sound Art & Sound Studies, HSE University)

Ivan Kalashnik (RU): sound artist, MA student (Sound Art & Sound Studies)

Vlad Generalov (RU): sound artist, MA student (Sound Art & Sound Studies, HSE University)

Alexander Senko (RU): composer, sound producer. Lecturer at Master program Sound Art & Sound Studies at HSE University.

Credits

Gleb Yakushev (RU), Maria Karpovich (RU), Olga Zubova (RU), Leonid Kurashov (RU), Aleksander Senko (RU), Ekaterina Volkova (RU), Ivan Kalashnik (RU), Lana Tarvolaria (RU), Simona (RU), Steve Rocket (RU), Eva Reicher (RU)