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 are concerned with the somato-political dimensions of musical forms, with a particular focus on the relationship between voice, immersivity and sympoietic architectures.
Combining live composition, spatialization of sound and an understanding of choreography as a form of correspondence, they explore what might be described as a "poetics of disorientation" - a state defined by accelerated social transformations and dislocations. The motifs that accompany them, their research and their work are volatility, transitionality, enchantment and lamentation.
Felix produces electronic music under the pseudonym leslie, and their debut album, Why So Eager, was released by London label Loose Trax.
Felix Riemann
composer and animator