sentient lands — instants for sonic ecologies at arkaoda / Saturday, 19.2.2022

Diane Barbé and Pablo Diserens present the first edition of sentient lands ~ an event series focused on the natural and synthetic in-betweens, navigating within the soundscapes of human and non-human worlds — in collaboration with the publishing platform forms of minutiae.

Felicity Mangan is an Australian sound artist, composer and educator based in Berlin, Germany since 2008. Felicity plays with the timbres and biorhythmic patterns of her field recording archive to create quasi-bioacoustic music. Felicity has played in collaborative projects Native Instrument (Shelter Press, Entr’acte) presenting electro-acoustic bug beats with vocalist Stine Janvin. Felicity has released solo publications on Longform Editions titled Stereo’frog’ic, a play on the word stereophonic – presenting a sound piece, crafted from found recordings of frogs, insects and other ‘vocal’ animals wavering about in a stereo field. More recently a tape release titled Creepy Crawly on Slovakian label Mappa Editions and Bell Metal Reeds (One Instrument). With an up and coming release on Moscow-based label Klammklang early 2022.

Pablo Diserens is an artist, field recordist, composer, filmmaker and photographer based in Berlin (Germany) who engages with various topo- and phonographies with a wide range of visual and sonic recording techniques. Their work brings the bio- and geological features of the explored environments to the foreground by blending a rich variety of located sounds with texts, analog photographs and video within site-specific gestures, installations, live performances, exhibitions and releases. Diserens composes sonic environments and electroacoustic sound pieces by fusing and altering an array of field recordings, found objects and self-made instruments.

— downstairs :
felicity mangan (live)
pablo diserens (live)
slowfoam
marylou
+ interludes by diane barbé

— upstairs :
suzana benesova b2b lws