Chronolith

In the work Chronolith, consisting of a complex multi-channel sound composition and stone slab installation, the bioacoustic group Jata C investigates the acoustics and temporal dimensions of stone structures, as well as their sustainability and interdependence with humans. Jata C (beepblip, OR poiesis, Boštjan Perovšek, Bojana Šaljić Podešva, Brane Zorman) poses the questions: How to listen to stone and think in geological time? Is it possible to understand the wider social context of man’s unsustainable exploitation of the environment through the sonority of stones? And if so, can this help with creating a juster and more reciprocal relationship with nature?

The artists obtained the sound material for the composition via field recordings of various locations and quarries. The installation serves as stone instrument, a sensorial extension to the human body, with which the composition and the vibrations of the stones are fed back into the materiality of the slabs with the help of transducers, forming a feedback loop. The work Chronolith is produced by the CONA institute for the program of the Steklenik gallery.

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Jata C (beepblip, OR poiesis, Boštjan PEROVŠEK, Bojana ŠALJIĆ PODEŠVA, Brane ZORMAN) is an artistic group whose members share a fondness for field recordings, bioacoustics and sound ecology. They combine the research of auditory perceptions with ecological and social topics, which they expand with scientific discourse and original ideas about sound environments. In the compositions, recordings from the immediate environment are transformed into speculative projections for the future and auditory perceptions of the present. In their work, they use a wide range of devices to capture acoustic phenomena. Their recording methods include so-called deep listening with a non-anthropocentric attitude towards biotic and non-biotic entities.

Ida HIRŠENFELDER (beepblip) is a sound and intermedia artist. Her interests include the media history, archives and their vanishing, and media archeology. She collaborates with the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM, Topographies of Sound festival, and within the radioCona program. She is a co-founder of the ČIPke Initiative for Women With a Sense for Technology with intermedia sound artist Saša Spačal. Between 2011 and 2017, Hiršenfelder was a member of DIY Theremidi Orchestra sound collective.

Petra KAPŠ (OR poiesis) is an artist and researcher of sound, sound perception and poetic performance. She extends the word in sonic spheres of timespace poetry. Along with the digital dimensions, her focus is nevertheless the physical presence of the body.

Boštjan PEROVŠEK, an artist, composer and sound designer, who composes experimental electroacoustic music. His special is creating bioacoustic music based on the sounds of animals, in particular insects. In addition, he collaborates with the SAETA group, creates music for film and theater, performances, multimedia installations and soundscapes for museums and galleries.

Bojana ŠALJIĆ PODEŠVA dedicates most of her time as a composer to the research of sound as an entity that affects the listener both physically and in terms of content. Her music spans from complete abstraction to complex semantic narratives. She is the recipient of several awards for her concert compositions, incidental music and film scores.

Brane ZORMAN is an intermedia artist, composer, sound manipulator, producer and curator. He composes sound works for theatre, intermedia and dance performances. He performs electro-acoustic solo pieces and improvisations with local and foreign artists in surround sound. Working with sound and space, Zorman develops various strategies, techniques, dynamic and interactive modules, records and reinterprets soundscapes and by way of sophisticated tools he creates electronic and acoustic sound sculptures.