To hear on Sunday 16 and 23 July 2017, 2pm - 9pm:
Sound installation by M4T & Kerta von Kubin
M4T & Kerta von Kubin on 'The Flux':
As written in the Soundactivism017, do we need an absolute « here » and « now »?
Are « here » and « now » two relevant concepts to think in a processual paradigm?
« The Flux » is a sound installation which investigates this new process ontology in its relation with the environment and urban space.
It’s a proposal to be active in front of of our surrounding sounds, to use them, arrange them to create an universe, a language transcending the here and the now.
It’s a political and public-spirited action to reclaim our cities, our right to change and intervene on them.
A request to be conscious to be part of the public space, to decide and to actively take part in its structuring.
This piece is a mix of field recordings, electronic music and real instruments. The recordings inside the metro stations which are to hear at the beginning and at the end are the symbols of the fluidity and non-fixity, the melting of times and of times and spaces, which are sustaining our modern society.
There is no more absolute, no more here, and no more now.
Urban space is only a sequence of transitions, a succession of non-places, which quickly disappear from the mind of who passes through them.
Sounds are events arising and disappearing and human beings are part of this flux, as listeners and as makers, depositories of this process.
M4T is an electronic music producer, born in Italy in 1980. His music embraces lots of different genres, mantaining as common denominator the minimal structure and the accurate research about the sonority and the textures. During the last years M4T has deepened the techniques for field recordings and for building virtual synthetizers, with the aim of creating his unique and original sound.
Since 2008 he has been making lots of releases with netlabels of the ambient and IDM scene across the Europe. He also realized various collaborations with visual artists to make advertising, performances, installations and other audio-visual projects.
Kerta von Kubin is a metal sculptor and musician born in France in 1990.
After studying philosophy and musicology in Lyon she moved in 2011 to Berlin where she joined the Kunsthaus Tacheles, she began there to work with metal and exhibited her first sculptures. She also took part as guitarist, percussionist and singer in various musical projects going from improvised experimental music for movies (Holy Movie) to industrial/concrete music (Hammerschlägen), going through dark electronic (Ciguri) and toured several times in Europe.
In 2013 she founded and builded the art place Kunstwerkstatt Marzahn in Berlin, where she was working, teaching sculpture and organising socio-cultural projects.
She is now managing a new atelier/gallery and handcraft shop in Lyon where she is also leading researches in philosophy under the direction of the Pr. Mauro Carbone.
Beside her sculptural work she is also collaborating with different artists on multimedia installations, mixing metal with natural elements, video, paintings, sound...
She is also part of the Hapto association, a network of independent art places in Europe developed by and for artists, providing living, working and exhibiting spaces.
Kerta von Kubin Website