Sonic Collage

In Sonic Collage, we will reimagine and recontextualize soundscapes by revisiting the art of the archive. Sonic Collage asks us to compose through the compost, to RE*member the dismembered and forgotten by sighting our sources. We will explore unorthodox and experimental methodologies of creating new compositions: from building and sounding acoustic instruments using found objects; to incorporating found sounds, field recordings, and samples into DAW-based music productions; to orchestrating collisions between archival audio and video materials to generate new audio-visual works. Working across acoustic, analog, digital, audio and visual mediums, we will explore how the meaning and identity of our original materials is transformed when it comes into contact with materials from divergent sources and contexts. We also ask how processes like filtering, editing, pitch-shifting, reversing, and other forms of spectromorphology can alter the identification and meaning of our sound sources. Merging editing software, analog and digital processing, and the art of storytelling, Sonic Collage will explore poetic forms that get below the surface of sound.