Sabina is a Korean artist who works with sound, visuals and coding. She has graduated from a MA in Computational Arts at Goldsmiths University in London, and she has moved to the Hague recently to continue her research in ArtScience at the Art Academy/Royal Conservatory. Her recent research involves finding hidden rules and patterns in natural elements and translating them into different shapes of perceptual experience.

Breath is an interactive light and sound installation/performance, operated by human breath. As a wind instrument, this work has been developed to control sound and light with human breathing, made
of DIY circuits and e-wastes.Breath uses amorphous energy from the human body and transforms it into different shapes: breathe to light and sound, vitalising an inorganic object. Human respiration

is visualised by dimming bulbs, activates the machine and involves functioning.The piece has been made of electronic junks such as old telephone’s microphone and old PC’s metal frame to illustrate new life from the dead devices and to allude a transformable relationship between human/natural element and machine.

Yota Morimoto is a Japanese composer, sound artist and researcher born in Brazil, and based currently in The Hague. He holds a master’s degree in Sonology from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and a Ph.D. in composition from the University of Birmingham in England. His music has been performed and commissioned by several ensembles and musicians and his sound installations and audio-visual works have been presented at various festivals all over the world. Yota is also active in sound design, sonification and an interactive sonic system implementation.

Shuhei Takezawa is a Japanese cello and viola da gamba player. He plays in various styles ranging from early baroque to classical and contemporary music. Shuhei graduated at Tokyo University of Arts, and worked with New Japan Philharmonic from 2006 to 2013. He is a member of several ensembles and he is also a teacher at Toho Gakuen College Music Department. Since September 2015, Shuhei is studying Early Music with Lucia Swartz at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.

Andrius is a Lithuanian-Armenian composer and sound artist currently based in The Hague. He studied composition with Yannis Kyriakides and Peter Adriaansz at the Royal Conservatory.

As a composer, one of his main interests is in the digital domain and the influence of the contemporary audio-visual culture on our perception of reality.

Andrius Arutiunian is a Lithuanian-Armenian composer and sound artist based in The Hague. He studied composition under Yannis Kyriakides and Peter Adriaansz in the Royal Conservatory Den Haag, and finished his MA studies in 2016. As a composer, one of his main interests is in the digital domain and the influence of the contemporary audio-visual culture on our perception of reality. In addition, the socio-historical context of technology often provides the basis for his music, with particular focus on communication and military technology.

VOYAGES (2016) - Live audio-visual set

In 1977 NASA succesfully launched two new spaces probes - Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, both designed to study the outer Solar System. Each had phonograph records attached to them which contained sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth. The sound collection consists of nature sounds, a selection of various music tracks, as well as spoken greetings in 55 languages, while the images show various concepts and moments from human life. This material was intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form, or for future humans, who may find them and be able to decode them. Extra-terrestial speculations aside, it is rather obvious that the records were intended as a strong political statement, as they were conceived by NASA in 1977 – one of the iconic political institutions of USA during the Cold-War era. What therefore intrigues me about this material is not so much its possible perception by the extra-terrestials, but the way NASA’s team (led by Carl Sagan) chose to define humanity and planet Earth by its choice of particular music tracks and images.

For this set Andrius has made a selection of images, sounds and music pieces that are encoded onto the Golden Records, and recomposed them live, allowing himself to wander freely between the original and new forms and contexts of the material

Voyager 1 is currently the furthest spacecraft from Earth and the only one in interstellar space.

Yota Morimoto (piano/electronics) & Shuhei Takezawa (viol/cello)

INTERLUDES (2016)

Yota Morimoto is a Japanese composer, sound artist and researcher born in Brazil. He holds a master's degree in Sonology from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and Ph.D. in composition from the University of Birmingham, UK. He has been performed and commissioned by ensembles and musicians such as SonoLab [NL], Amsterdam Collage Ensemble [NL], Plus-Minus Ensemble [UK], Ensemble Vortex [CH], Ensemble Klang [NL], Duo Cristobal - Takada [NL], and his sound installations and audio-visual works have been presented at festivals such as TodaysArt [The Hague, Kawasaki], GOGBOT [Enschede], NWEAMO [Morelia], Transmediale [Berlin], ISEA [Dortmund, Istanbul], makeart [Poitier], EMUfest [Rome], ICMC [Belfast, Perth, Athens], SMC [Porto, Barcelona] and SICMF [Seoul]. He is also active in sound design, sonification and interactive sonic system implementation working with industrial and institutional commissioners such as LUSTlab, Filmmuseum Amsterdam, Hokkaido University, University of Tsukuba, AIST, Shiseido Co., Ltd. and Honda Motor Co., Ltd. Together with the members of the Mutu Ensemble he commissions and performs new music. He lives and works in The Hague, the Netherlands.

Sabina Hyoju Ahn is an artist, works with sound, visual and coding. She has been working professionally with art and technology for the last six years in New York, Seoul, London and The Hague. Sabina has graduated from MA in Computational Arts at Goldsmiths University in London, and she has moved to the Hague, Netherlands to continue her research in ArtScience at Royal Conservatoire. Her recent research involves in finding hidden rules and patterns in natural elements and translate it into different shapes of perceptual experience. www.sabinaahn.com

BREATH (2016)  - Performance

Breath is an interactive light and sound installation/performance, operated by human breath. As a wind instrument, this work has been developed to control sound and light with human breathing, made of DIY circuits and e-wastes.Breath uses amorphous energy from the human body and transforms it into different shapes: breathe to light and sound, vitalising an inorganic object. Human respiration is visualised by dimming bulbs, activates the machine and involves functioning.The piece has been made of electronic junks such as old telephone’s microphone and old PC’s metal frame to illustrate new life from the dead devices and to allude a transformable relationship between human/natural element and machine.