Into the Voids of Perception: On Listening to the Unheard
Today's ecological crises are calls to action. However, to change and appreciate the world, we also need to expand our perception of it. Into the Voids of Perception: On Listening to the Unheard intended to do that by expanding the range of perspectives we can have on our environment, focusing on the choices that lie within perception.
Artist Nikki Buzzi spoke about how the act of listening and how their engagement with the environment informed their practice. This was followed by a sound and music experience, with the aim of activating varying perspectives that allow for ambiguity in deciding what's real. The event consisted of a journey through particular sonic realities and how we can change the way we approach them.
About the Composer
Nikki Buzzi is a composer, performer and sound artist based in Zurich, Switzerland and Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Their work spans various fields including music, installation art, media art, performing arts, film and education. They hold an MA in Electroacoustic Composition and currently act as Technical Director of the Studio for Electronic Music and Acoustics at the HfMDK Frankfurt. Buzzi focuses on the potential of appropriation and the use of advanced technological knowledge to negotiate and disarm historical ballast of cultural practices that are rooted in the timelines of European art music. Their solo and collaborative practice produces artefacts that are often site-specific, performance-oriented, and closely related to acoustic phenomena and perception mechanisms.