2016 – 4 channels – mixed media

A live performance that looks into the idea of sound-acting. It was premiered in Barcelona, played in Lisbon, Prague and The Hague.

“Something to Hold Onto” is an exercise on white noise.

It belongs to a series of studies within the project “Acousmatic Foley”. One of the main ideas is that of treating sound as an actor. Thus, the piece explores an attempt to make a single sound sound-like many other things. By recording an object on stage and sampling it live, the sound proceeds with other forms in order to produce other sorts of suggestions beyond what was seen as the original source of it. The title of the piece is borrowed from a project originally created by Leigh Landy (1990) and followed up by Rob Waele (2006), the “Intention/Reception” project, which studied the relationship between the listener and the sounds, the listener’s ability and willingness to figure out what is happening based on what sort of information is given beforehand. For that reason, the piece starts with providing the visual source of the sound, to be held onto as a reference.