GREENHOUSE CONVERSATIONS
SVGH20201030
SVGH20201030 is a 50 minute ambient soundwork based on recordings made by CPG during Summer 2020. The recordings capture different participants of the Greenhouse Conversations project while singing, playing guitar, laughing, reciting, gargling, sliding, etc. In short: just making sound. The piece embeds these sounds in an abstract and lush atmospherical soundscape which slowly changes between noisy cracks and harmonic sounds, fragmentarily revealing snippets of spoken words and songs. Different voices, languages, instruments and spirits join together, albeit all are disconnected of initial intentions or expressions. The blend is fragmented, melancholic, full of indefinable desires, sometimes dark but always with rays of light shining through the cracks. Individual sounds travel around through space and time in slow-motion, each one following its own geometric pathway. But occasionally trajectories collide, and unexpected conversations arise by chance, just like a coincidental meeting at the Greenhouse on a warm summer evening.
Vincent Caers
Vincent Caers is an electronic sound artist, multimedia performer, percussionist and artistic researcher at LUCA School of Arts. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. exploring new performance formats, integrating contemporary scores into audiovisual electro-acoustic improvisation. His focus is on creating unstable sonic environments wherein surprising sounds are guided in dialogue with different media, resulting in a refreshing type of immersive audiovisual chamber music. Inspired by different attitudes towards the creative process prevalent outside of the sonic arts, his work is imbued with unexpected forms and non-auditory sensorial references, often expressed through multi-channel audio realizations. Vincent has been performing with different ensembles and orchestras and at concert venues and festivals in Belgium and abroad (Hermes, Worp/Sichtlaut, Emanon, champdAction, Blow, OPRL, deFilharmonie, Vlaamse Opera, La Monnaie, Verbier Festival (CH), Ircam’s ManiFeste (FR), Darmstadt Ferienkurse (GER), etc.) and was artist in residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (CA) and the Institute for Sound Technology and Computer Music in Zurich (CH). He is currently artist in residence at the BAC Art LAb in Leuven. He runs a marathon in 03h25m15s.
GREENHOUSE CONVERSATIONS
SVGH20201030
SVGH20201030 is a 50 minute ambient soundwork based on recordings made by CPG during Summer 2020. The recordings capture different participants of the Greenhouse Conversations project while singing, playing guitar, laughing, reciting, gargling, sliding, etc. In short: just making sound. The piece embeds these sounds in an abstract and lush atmospherical soundscape which slowly changes between noisy cracks and harmonic sounds, fragmentarily revealing snippets of spoken words and songs. Different voices, languages, instruments and spirits join together, albeit all are disconnected of initial intentions or expressions. The blend is fragmented, melancholic, full of indefinable desires, sometimes dark but always with rays of light shining through the cracks. Individual sounds travel around through space and time in slow-motion, each one following its own geometric pathway. But occasionally trajectories collide, and unexpected conversations arise by chance, just like a coincidental meeting at the Greenhouse on a warm summer evening.
Vincent Caers
Vincent Caers is an electronic sound artist, multimedia performer, percussionist and artistic researcher at LUCA School of Arts. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. exploring new performance formats, integrating contemporary scores into audiovisual electro-acoustic improvisation. His focus is on creating unstable sonic environments wherein surprising sounds are guided in dialogue with different media, resulting in a refreshing type of immersive audiovisual chamber music. Inspired by different attitudes towards the creative process prevalent outside of the sonic arts, his work is imbued with unexpected forms and non-auditory sensorial references, often expressed through multi-channel audio realizations. Vincent has been performing with different ensembles and orchestras and at concert venues and festivals in Belgium and abroad (Hermes, Worp/Sichtlaut, Emanon, champdAction, Blow, OPRL, deFilharmonie, Vlaamse Opera, La Monnaie, Verbier Festival (CH), Ircam’s ManiFeste (FR), Darmstadt Ferienkurse (GER), etc.) and was artist in residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (CA) and the Institute for Sound Technology and Computer Music in Zurich (CH). He is currently artist in residence at the BAC Art LAb in Leuven. He runs a marathon in 03h25m15s.