Into the Voids of Perception: On Listening to the Unheard

Europe-based composer, performer and sound artist Nikki Buzzi will be performing a piece depicting how being part of a particular culture can influence the way we hear things in our environment, and how listening can be used as a tool to transform the future for the better.

A reflection on how culture and sound intersect

and how we can use sound to transform the future

“Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.”
Pauline Oliveros

Today’s ecological crises are calls to action. However, to change and appreciate the world, we also need to expand our perception of it. Into the Voids of Perception: On Listening to the Unheard aims to expand the range of perspectives we can have on our environment, focusing on the choices that lie within perception.

“We have no occasions for interacting with any world other than our own.”
Maryanne Amacher

Artist Nikki Buzzi will talk about how the act of listening and their engagement with the environment inform their practice. This will be followed by a sound and music experience, with the aim to activate varying perspectives that allow for ambiguity in deciding what’s real. The event consists of a journey through particular sonic realities and how we can change the way we approach them.

Artist/Performer

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    Bio

    Nikki Buzzi

    Composer | Performer | Sound Artist

    Nikki Buzzi is a composer, performer and sound artist based in Zurich, Switzerland, and Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Their work spans various fields, including music, installation art, media art, performing arts, film and education. They hold an MA in Electroacoustic Composition and currently act as the technical director of the Studio for Electronic Music and Acoustics at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (HfMDK). Buzzi focuses on the potential of appropriation and the use of advanced technological knowledge to negotiate and disarm the historical ballast of cultural practices that are rooted in the timelines of European art music. Buzzi’s solo and collaborative practice produces artefacts that are often site-specific, performance-oriented and closely related to acoustic phenomena and perception mechanisms. Buzzi’s work is or has been practiced or presented at the Venice Architecture Biennial, House of World Cultures (HKW) Berlin, Istituto Svizzero Milano, NUP Tallinn, Kunstmuseum Basel, Musikfestival Bern, NAC Lithuania, São Paulo Architecture Biennial, Schauspielhaus Zurich, Taylor Macklin Zurich, Theater Basel, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart and ZKM Karlsruhe.

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