https://sonochoreographic.net sonochoreographiccollective Thu, 06 Nov 2025 13:17:06 +0000 https://sonochoreographic.net en https://sonochoreographic.net/Landing Tue, 19 May 2020 17:23:04 +0000 sonochoreographiccollective https://sonochoreographic.net/Landing https://sonochoreographic.net/About-1 Mon, 28 Feb 2022 15:13:27 +0000 sonochoreographiccollective https://sonochoreographic.net/About-1 Coming from practices of sculpture, music and dance, we, Kerstin Ergenzinger, Bnaya Halperin-Kaddari and Kiran Kumar, initiated the Sono-Choreographic Collective for transdisciplinary art and research. Our work distills into sound and object making, as well as movement and writing. At the core of our collaborative practice is play: We play intentionally to seek, affirm and share a life-ness, which we see as so important to the world today. We play our self-made research instruments, and also our human body-mind. We play attentively with notions of subtlety, embodiment and consciousness through the arts. In actively seeking out various constellations of collectivity, we engage in interpersonal dialogues, focused reading groups, workshops and publications with other artistic and scientific collaborators,&nbsp;beyond our core trio. Through these collaborations we intend for Sono-Choreography to tap into the generative potentials of inter-cultural and interdisciplinary differences in order to expand personal encounters of something ineffable into shared experiences of nuance.&nbsp;It is in this sharing of ineffable, nuanced co-presences that we locate our urgent resistance to the excesses of modernity, to tendencies of higher, stronger and faster. Our resistance is both micropolitical, in that it proposes subtle modes of sensing, as well as of planetary proportions, in its search for more life sustaining cosmologies. Our practice of Sono-Choreography always strives to tease out more than monistic ways of sensing, experiencing, knowing and therefore relating-with our worlds. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <img width="2000" height="1341" width_o="2000" height_o="1341" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9c540d3df8232a052564091c88147bb90fd9d1b92cbc285296b3ad4280e731e3/I.-Sono-Choreographic-Collective.low-2.JPG" data-mid="151342668" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9c540d3df8232a052564091c88147bb90fd9d1b92cbc285296b3ad4280e731e3/I.-Sono-Choreographic-Collective.low-2.JPG" /> © Lena Loose︎︎︎ Kerstin Ergenzinger︎︎︎ is a visual artist working across the fields of installation, electronic arts, sound and drawing. The inextricable relations between body and world, perception and the perceived, sensing and sense making are central themes of her practice. Bnaya Halperin-Kaddari︎︎︎ is a composer and artist, working across a broad spectrum of practices to embody and re-ritualise ways of sounding as an alternative mode of being. Exploring a plethora of artistic strategies his work attempts to navigate the physical, political and spiritual turbulences of our world. Kiraṇ Kumār︎︎︎ is a dance artist, researcher and writer. His work focuses on unpacking understandings of the human body-mind through a trifold practice of dance as art, science and ritual, and on the proposals for change that these understandings may hold for our contemporary world. https://sonochoreographic.net/Work-Nav Fri, 26 Aug 2022 08:48:38 +0000 sonochoreographiccollective https://sonochoreographic.net/Work-Nav Environments, Playgrounds &amp; Research https://sonochoreographic.net/20-Springs Thu, 06 Nov 2025 10:59:10 +0000 sonochoreographiccollective https://sonochoreographic.net/20-Springs 20 Springs Evironment Twenty Springs is a sound, light and haptic environment stemming from the artistic-scientific research Common Grounds. This installation uses a detailed set of hourly environmental data points recorded since 1998 at the Bayelva permafrost measurement station at the Svalbard archipelago in the high arctic region of Norway. Thirty three parameters of the dataset are translated and fed into an array of multi-channel sounding sculptures. Compressed into a single hour, it sonifies the first twenty springs of the current millenium as a navigable, storied, sound-light environment. This environment establishes an analogous, artificial ecology that maintains an underlying connection to the distribution of sensors installed at the Bayelva research site. The physical-spatial relations of its sound sources correspond to the sensors at the Arctic station: spread three-dimensionally in space, they establish relations with visitors’ moving and listening bodies on both horizontal and vertical planes. In addition, a CO2 sensor measures the local atmosphere and captures the effect of visitors' breath, incorporating the installation space and the visitors into the sounding data stream. <img width="2592" height="3888" width_o="2592" height_o="3888" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/32b05e42136af2dcef89dce3841e34802a93d3b61bbee85d3e12a5459879e23f/2022_CGR_IMG__0023.jpg" data-mid="240328858" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/32b05e42136af2dcef89dce3841e34802a93d3b61bbee85d3e12a5459879e23f/2022_CGR_IMG__0023.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/63684bd89f393a31d82fce62626d2b0acdab52b345b8e3feae443afc1f8c802a/IMG_2884.jpg" data-mid="240328843" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/63684bd89f393a31d82fce62626d2b0acdab52b345b8e3feae443afc1f8c802a/IMG_2884.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c89b028865290084ba53aff6309c82ff069987694d3f1c1ab3242f6c6037f06/IMG_2874.jpg" data-mid="240328833" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c89b028865290084ba53aff6309c82ff069987694d3f1c1ab3242f6c6037f06/IMG_2874.jpg" /> <img width="3888" height="2592" width_o="3888" height_o="2592" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e5d05d152845ac17991fac46bab228a1f35515e1dea397797d67c1eac30c3c3/IMG_0345.jpg" data-mid="240328876" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0e5d05d152845ac17991fac46bab228a1f35515e1dea397797d67c1eac30c3c3/IMG_0345.jpg" /> https://sonochoreographic.net/Whisperings-1 Thu, 03 Mar 2022 12:15:53 +0000 sonochoreographiccollective https://sonochoreographic.net/Whisperings-1 WHISPERINGS Evironment This sono-choreographic environment intersects the whisper, that speech-act at the limits of audibility, with the urgency of unheard (or at least under-represented) perspectives/ideas/stories. Each instantiation of this environment performs these critical whispers through various texts and instruments. https://sonochoreographic.net/Whisperings-Circle Thu, 03 Mar 2022 12:06:09 +0000 sonochoreographiccollective https://sonochoreographic.net/Whisperings-Circle :: CIRCLE <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/74fe10f34e56cf296be4ed1952b7d8cacb427c3bc94377a45baaf0b0aa105998/TUR_9d8n_Still_9days8nights_Floorplan_dark.png" data-mid="136517418" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/74fe10f34e56cf296be4ed1952b7d8cacb427c3bc94377a45baaf0b0aa105998/TUR_9d8n_Still_9days8nights_Floorplan_dark.png" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/907d699a72fc1a6152a834a19b34f5e44353a4c247e6cbb77b2ba260c617cca2/SonoChoreographicCollective_COW_2.jpg" data-mid="135197760" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/907d699a72fc1a6152a834a19b34f5e44353a4c247e6cbb77b2ba260c617cca2/SonoChoreographicCollective_COW_2.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa4febb00ec5b5b09d5f33d59447d3a034f0c38f5144b187e0e93b5d16377e76/SonoChoreographicCollective_COW_3.jpg" data-mid="135197761" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fa4febb00ec5b5b09d5f33d59447d3a034f0c38f5144b187e0e93b5d16377e76/SonoChoreographicCollective_COW_3.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/310462f7317af8b262ff645c6c24e273c3207d2a4bd8b79ab6a86af43459bf7f/SonoChoreographicCollective_COW_1.jpg" data-mid="135197759" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/310462f7317af8b262ff645c6c24e273c3207d2a4bd8b79ab6a86af43459bf7f/SonoChoreographicCollective_COW_1.jpg" /> Photo credits ©SCC 'Whisperings: Circle' is an intimate congregation of seven custom made horns that whisper seven texts, one on each day of the week. The whisperings ponder the etymological and astrological roots of the days of the week, Part of '9days8nights', an exhibition that&nbsp;invited to inhabit instruments for poetic measurement of plural durations of being. Indoor installation for the space ‘sign,CIAT’ of the Contemporary Institute for Art and Thought in Berlin, 30.8.2021-7.9.2021. Commissioned by the Contemporary Institute for Art and Thought (CIA&amp;T) Funded by VG Bild-Kunst https://sonochoreographic.net/Whisperings-Whistleblowers Thu, 03 Mar 2022 12:21:21 +0000 sonochoreographiccollective https://sonochoreographic.net/Whisperings-Whistleblowers :: WHISTLEBLOWERS <img width="1200" height="900" width_o="1200" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3f62dbe6627013dcaa3f27f24aee89ff0b588602a3228d586e7f748d4d4fd881/SonoChoreographicCollective_WBL_1.jpg" data-mid="135198905" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3f62dbe6627013dcaa3f27f24aee89ff0b588602a3228d586e7f748d4d4fd881/SonoChoreographicCollective_WBL_1.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="1600" width_o="1200" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2b17aa4a7a4596651c28d69ad4f26e262d01b894a12879a9363cc4e19f82b8c7/SonoChoreographicCollective_WBL_2.jpg" data-mid="135198906" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2b17aa4a7a4596651c28d69ad4f26e262d01b894a12879a9363cc4e19f82b8c7/SonoChoreographicCollective_WBL_2.jpg" /> Photo credits ©SCC In 'Whisperings: Whistleblowers' the atmospheric sensibility of electro-acoustic wind instruments is grounded as political voices are mixed into and amplified by the wind. At a time when whistleblowers expose the ways in which we are manipulated by invisible powers, these instruments transform uncomfortable revelations, warnings, and signals into sounds and chants, narrated by artificially generated voices. Commissioned by the Dystopie sound art festival 2020, the environment was originally conceived as an outdoor sonic intervention for a public space in one of Berlin’s S-bahn stations, the work was subsequently installed in an indoor gallery space because requisite permissions could not be obtained for the public installation. Commissioned by Dystopie sound art festival 2020 https://sonochoreographic.net/How-many-sleeps-until-tomorrow Thu, 03 Mar 2022 12:27:02 +0000 sonochoreographiccollective https://sonochoreographic.net/How-many-sleeps-until-tomorrow HOW MANY SLEEPS UNTIL TOMORROW? Evironment <img width="1200" height="673" width_o="1200" height_o="673" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/76aadd0826f55f20f562048c84b33e6aa0071388793c36f76b4f36a1916c2e6b/SonoChoreographicCollective_HMS_1.jpg" data-mid="135199896" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/76aadd0826f55f20f562048c84b33e6aa0071388793c36f76b4f36a1916c2e6b/SonoChoreographicCollective_HMS_1.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="674" width_o="1200" height_o="674" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/604fe72b79e816b2329e374b3445268db3e56d4049072cb7d9b327f9951248d3/SonoChoreographicCollective_HMS_3.jpg" data-mid="135199898" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/604fe72b79e816b2329e374b3445268db3e56d4049072cb7d9b327f9951248d3/SonoChoreographicCollective_HMS_3.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="670" width_o="1200" height_o="670" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/25de4686be1641fef5970736513fc80c57954f475cc04d27afadce8b59fe7921/SonoChoreographicCollective_HMS_4.jpg" data-mid="135199899" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/25de4686be1641fef5970736513fc80c57954f475cc04d27afadce8b59fe7921/SonoChoreographicCollective_HMS_4.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="671" width_o="1200" height_o="671" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a0725ee9446cc8dfda2d64a81ea1b3c7111d7eb81964cc7510ec8a3726c35bb0/SonoChoreographicCollective_HMS_5.jpg" data-mid="135199900" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a0725ee9446cc8dfda2d64a81ea1b3c7111d7eb81964cc7510ec8a3726c35bb0/SonoChoreographicCollective_HMS_5.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="675" width_o="1200" height_o="675" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e92454c421bce5c3c8462e20dee74102f53ea1e9b3a2632679048245335f76fe/SonoChoreographicCollective_HMS_6.jpg" data-mid="135199901" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e92454c421bce5c3c8462e20dee74102f53ea1e9b3a2632679048245335f76fe/SonoChoreographicCollective_HMS_6.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="671" width_o="1200" height_o="671" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/84442bb20fdf3277789acf98053b0f24e550de55ff7a0b59954f40a73fde419e/SonoChoreographicCollective_HMS_8.jpg" data-mid="135199903" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/84442bb20fdf3277789acf98053b0f24e550de55ff7a0b59954f40a73fde419e/SonoChoreographicCollective_HMS_8.jpg" /> <img width="1195" height="673" width_o="1195" height_o="673" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e11f14c693e7d474fd05b521bcf61596a1a4994d421ba44adcb7f32517fcb7c9/SonoChoreographicCollective_HMS_7.jpg" data-mid="135199902" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e11f14c693e7d474fd05b521bcf61596a1a4994d421ba44adcb7f32517fcb7c9/SonoChoreographicCollective_HMS_7.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="673" width_o="1200" height_o="673" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3892d6a7c9f789ddad34b1e4d9c2d398c0c2d4920adc3a6508dcb8e990cb8b00/SonoChoreographicCollective_HMS_2.jpg" data-mid="135199897" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3892d6a7c9f789ddad34b1e4d9c2d398c0c2d4920adc3a6508dcb8e990cb8b00/SonoChoreographicCollective_HMS_2.jpg" /> Photo credits ©SCC This environment unfolds as series of coiled bedtime compositions, lullabies that invite the audience into sharing a gesture of sleep. Upon being somatically guided into positions of laying down, an audio-visual-textual concert which has been specifically designed for dome-projection fills the night time with stories and songs of planetary proportions that are each at once both lullaby and wake-up call. As Covid19 practically cancelled all live-arts events in the spring of 2020, this chapter had to migrate into the disinfected online space and we adapted what was supposed to be a choreographed sleep with live music and projections into an interactive video work. Unable to share a place with our audiences, we broadcasted a shared time in the virtual space of the Vierte-Welt Theater in Berlin. https://sonochoreographic.net/Room-Tunings Thu, 03 Mar 2022 11:50:07 +0000 sonochoreographiccollective https://sonochoreographic.net/Room-Tunings ROOM TUNINGS Environment <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a6463abf1180051288d35b5f8a1bce3a96878871ea8b15083b171a199bae7141/TUR_9d8n_Still_9days8nights_Floorplan_dark.png" data-mid="136517340" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a6463abf1180051288d35b5f8a1bce3a96878871ea8b15083b171a199bae7141/TUR_9d8n_Still_9days8nights_Floorplan_dark.png" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b290354e38c624095f842d27036d88bbfb2653e0eb26ca9c276064d30decf557/SonoChoreographicCollective_TUR_1.jpg" data-mid="135196429" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b290354e38c624095f842d27036d88bbfb2653e0eb26ca9c276064d30decf557/SonoChoreographicCollective_TUR_1.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fcce555b7c05289d43659fcdfc0f9e4b04c7b4a6d763540702da2d86f9932912/SonoChoreographicCollective_TUR_2.jpg" data-mid="135196430" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fcce555b7c05289d43659fcdfc0f9e4b04c7b4a6d763540702da2d86f9932912/SonoChoreographicCollective_TUR_2.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd81096fe0cd31573168f57026dc36e5bdf9730673a79e1792290451710eba07/SonoChoreographicCollective_TUR_3.jpg" data-mid="135196431" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd81096fe0cd31573168f57026dc36e5bdf9730673a79e1792290451710eba07/SonoChoreographicCollective_TUR_3.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="1799" width_o="1200" height_o="1799" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c57b7eddb2bf52a3c5a2bf2fab16da13ceb56ce81844b3603607797f252b1da0/SonoChoreographicCollective_TUR_4.jpg" data-mid="135196432" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c57b7eddb2bf52a3c5a2bf2fab16da13ceb56ce81844b3603607797f252b1da0/SonoChoreographicCollective_TUR_4.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/973536bf9654ca93edc5d222717f40696f192300a6c2cb9cd0780651ac1b8d3c/SonoChoreographicCollective_TUR_5.jpg" data-mid="135196433" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/973536bf9654ca93edc5d222717f40696f192300a6c2cb9cd0780651ac1b8d3c/SonoChoreographicCollective_TUR_5.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="1799" width_o="1200" height_o="1799" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/affd5b581c8e2dd41c0e5f55df03797505b897bd15ecc6c95009d71f217956d9/SonoChoreographicCollective_TUR_6.jpg" data-mid="135196434" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/affd5b581c8e2dd41c0e5f55df03797505b897bd15ecc6c95009d71f217956d9/SonoChoreographicCollective_TUR_6.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f7c9f6bc2508fbb70cfa3b455bfa13354481b07485789b1b64a57ef2579b3694/SonoChoreographicCollective_TUR_8.jpg" data-mid="135196436" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f7c9f6bc2508fbb70cfa3b455bfa13354481b07485789b1b64a57ef2579b3694/SonoChoreographicCollective_TUR_8.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/30527b769a1f8cd776781a952096b5c90ba0710565aa2f6c3245227f26798296/SonoChoreographicCollective_TUR_7.jpg" data-mid="135196435" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/30527b769a1f8cd776781a952096b5c90ba0710565aa2f6c3245227f26798296/SonoChoreographicCollective_TUR_7.jpg" /> Photo credits ©SCC ‘Room Tunings’ is a site-specific, time-based sono-choreographic environment in which a room is tuned to its own modes by measuring its acoustic resonance peaks. These measurements reveal peak frequencies, points in the sonic spectrum that are amplified by the room's architecture and dimensions, that when aggregated construct a site-specific musical mode. Within this mode, a specific number of hexachords are composed and played through a ring of site-specific instruments along the walls. This number corresponds to the duration of the environment such that in a sequence, one chord is played per day of the installation. Particular place as temporal experience ‘Room Tunings: sign CIAT’ was initially conceived for the inner room of the Contemporary Institute for Art and Thought in Berlin; the environment is transposable to other spaces under suitable conditions for design and installation. Commissioned by the Contemporary Institute for Art and Thought (CIA&amp;T)Funded by VG Bild-Kunst https://sonochoreographic.net/Instrumentalities-for-Common-Grounds Thu, 06 Nov 2025 13:17:06 +0000 sonochoreographiccollective https://sonochoreographic.net/Instrumentalities-for-Common-Grounds Instrumentalities for Common Grounds Playground Instrumentalities for Common Grounds is a participatory performance that collectively tunes into sonifications of environmental data, scaling 20 years of hourly arctic measurements into 60 minutes. In this immersive performance-lecture the Sono-Choreographic Collective shares methods developed for listening, sensing, understanding and connecting to climate change from an embodied perspective. During the performance, participants are guided through various sonic and somatic techniques that tie the planetary scales with individual and collective sensory scales. The performance unfolds around a table that is a hybrid surface for discourse, policy, strategy, negotiation, communication and communion. <img width="4000" height="2667" width_o="4000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c50554c8c4943240ca8fdcb7984f5e5ea5a9dd48d81cb588f5c9bb0b44b94f6e/impuls-festival-2023_ph.helena_majewska_1556.jpg" data-mid="240328126" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c50554c8c4943240ca8fdcb7984f5e5ea5a9dd48d81cb588f5c9bb0b44b94f6e/impuls-festival-2023_ph.helena_majewska_1556.jpg" />