Touching Grounds – stefan*voglsinger

Touching Grounds –Maartje Pasman: Dance * Stefan Voglsinger: Electronics, Field Recordings & Objects

The new collaboration of dancer Maartje Pasman and musician and media artist Stefan Voglsinger merges field recordings and experimental music with contemporary dance and performance.

In Touching Grounds they examine the intersection of movement, sound and multimedia installation. Utilizing recordings and personal observations from their field trips around

the world, their trans medial improvisations aim to explore the relationship between kinesthetic memory and auditory perception. Body memory and field recordings feed the process of their artistic research. Stefan captures sounds in the air, in vibrating matter, underwater and in the radio frequency spectrum with self built circuits, modified microphones and recorders. He replays those recordings and mixes them live with electronics and electro-acoustic elements that complement their frequency spectrum and merge to hypnotic textures. He‘s always trying to preserve the natural timbre of the places and creates live transitions that form the imaginary timeline of the sound collage. Maartje uses her senses as a professionally trained contemporary dancer to recall and interact with the present and the moment when the recordings where made. Her trance-like state of performance enables her to be fed by the sounds that trigger her memory of places she has experienced with the here and now. She strongly relates to her surroundings and architecture of the venues following her intuition. Their side specific project developed as immersive live performances, mesmerizing installations in public space as well as long durational pieces through extensive touring in Europe and Asia.

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