Research residency, sound experimentation, rehearsals.
Angels and Cogwheels explores how collaboratively created sound environments, or, as I call them, "sympoietic soundscapes", can capture the complex and changing nature of our social ecosystems and the range of emotions they convey. With this project, I intend to highlight the liminality, simultaneity and breadth of these emotions - an interconnectedness that manifests itself through our presence, our language and, above all, our voices.
The project will be presented as an immersive live musical composition, incorporating improvised vocal contributions from myself and audience members, via an openly accessible microphone in the performance space.
Support
Studio for Electroacoustic Music at the Berlin Academy of the Arts; Cité Internationale des Arts de Paris.
Felix Riemann
Interdisciplinary artist
Felix is an interdisciplinary artist whose current projects interrogate the relationship between voice, immersion and sympoietic architectures - a term that emphasizes relationality and co-creation. Through this prism, musical and poetic forms become regenerative, intersubjective and body-political terrains of experimentation.
Combining live composition, sound spatialization and choreography as a mode of correspondence, Felix develops what might be called a poetics of disorientation: sonic gestures fashioned within violently disrupted landscapes, an attempt to formulate the existential experience of geopolitical conflict. Motifs such as volatility, texture, enchantment and lamentation run through their work.
Felix also produces electronic music under the name leslie. Her debut album, Why so Eager, was released on London label Loose Trax.
Felix Riemann
composer and animator