Sound excerpt of the spatial scene FINSTER, Uncloud Festival 2021.
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"FINSTER (- Dark [German] - syn.: sinister, gloomy, obfuscated) is a site specific installation transforming one of the cells in the old PBC for Uncloud 2021 into a multi sensory spatial scene. It combines subjects of architecture, culture and perception. 
The work embeds all surfaces of the cell in black fabric, creating
a second skin, a delusive cover, which leaves the visual subordinate to olfactory, tactile and sonic stimuli. 

FINSTER draws parallels to spaces which seem the farthest away from our current possibilities of unforeseen encounters - with others or oneself - where the unknown (also) makes space for excitement and freedom. The installation aims to counteract the obvious prison cell, seeking to evoke feelings of insideness and otherness and offers a place to dwell in."

Pleas keep in mind: This sound was carefully produced and situated in a space. Your listening experience on headphones or speakers will differ quite a bit from the original work.

FINSTER (Excerpt)

Spatial Scene Test 1 - Research process MA ArtScience
Four channel sound.

"(...) The soundpiece is a semi-intuitively composed interplay of overpowering on the one hand and just audible, intricate sounds on the other. It challenges, perhaps changes, spatio-temporal perception in an ambiguous studio and lets the listener experience a falling back into what is present."

Pleas keep in mind: This sound was carefully produced and situated in a space. Your listening experience on headphones or speakers will differ quite a bit from the original work.

Spatial Scene Test 1 (Excerpt)

Aftertaste, 2022

"The time spent here so far turned out to be a disrupting collage of different sonic stimuli, rhythms and sensations. A feeling of otherworldly-ness and confused temporal perception accompanies the days. Oliveros' question of when does listening to a sound become memory comes to mind. I'd like to use these thoughts and compose with the according sound material of different spaces, times and airflows - from the low highway rumble, the canteen fridge drone to tiny sounds of the forest and soft wind. I'd imagine the piece to play with these contrasting atmospheres."

Developed and produced during "Site Specifics" - a field recording and listening workshop guided by Mint Park at Klankenbos, Musika Impulscentrum, Pelt (BE).

Presented at Oortreders Festival 2022

Aftertaste

Spatial Scene Test 2 - The taste in my mouth
Research process MA ArtScience

Excerpt of a six channel sound piece based around the visceral and the mouth. Presented in monochromatic green light, the audience was invited to eat self made candy and accompany the piece with their own mouth sounds.

Pleas keep in mind: This sound was carefully produced and situated in a space. Your listening experience on headphones or speakers will differ quite a bit from the original work.

Spatial Scene Test 2 (Excerpt)

live at sonic sleep I

live at sonic sleep II

Alexander Köppel is an artist, sound producer and spatial designer based in The Netherlands. He engages in multiple disciplines - often in collaboration - researching human perception, the practice and modalities of listening and guiding (into) acts of attention.
Alexander composes with multiple sensory agents to create spatial scenes that invite the audience to be with what is present, to be sincere with their senses. He plays live as Mari.

Mari

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