Zvukozest (eng: Sound-gesture)is an interactive sound performance which took place in Moscow, January 8th 2014. Blindfolded members of the audience one by one were invited into the space with 12 performers, who make sounds. All together sound-makers form a live musical instrument operated by gestures of the spectator. In a way the spectator becomes a performer, composer and conductor as s/he composes his own piece of music. While the performers become the spectators, watching the movements of the conductor and how they influence the music. Each composition was recorded and sent to its author.

ZVUKOZEST - composer 15

ZVUKOZEST - composer 8

This is a part of a research into sound ecology of the site in order to create a soundtrack for a site-specific promenade performance "Dance Out. Experience for 20 Humans". The performance was developed for a particular route along Central Saint Martin`s College in London. The audience was invited to "take a walk outside all together". Their walk became a performative experience as it is framed by a soundtrack played through radio-headphones. Along the route more and more performers were evolving among the walkers, exploring the merge between the everyday movement and dance. In a similar way the soundtrack, based on field-recordings of the site, was exploring the musicality of everyday sounds of the public space. 

Walking through the "street" in CSM. "Dance Out. Experience for 20 Humans".

Arrival of the invisible character for "Dance Out. Experience for 20 Humans".

'In the park, Experience for 12 humans' is a site-specific performance which took place in Hyde Park in London, May 2015. The audience was invited on an audio-walk but they had to wait for the last participant to arrive: they could hear her running through the park, her thoughts about being late and then her reflections upon the sound walk itself. 
She is a film-like character whose inner monologues can be heard as a voice-over and the audience is a part of that movie happening in the reality follows her as if they followed Amelie or Forrest Gump along their real pathways. A cinematographic soundtrack frames the reality into film or theatre and gives a unique opportunity to experience how someone`s thoughts correlate with the actions. all the actions of the performer are synchronised with the sound: she thinks about giving up smoking and tin a second she takes a cigarette out of her pocket... 
The soundtrack consists of field-recordings recorded along that specific route and reflects on acoustic ecology of the site.   

performer/voice Katya Chitova
concept/sound/script Katia Reshetnikova

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In the park. Experience for 12 humans

Forest is a performance which took place in museum of contemporary art GARAGE in Moscow during the performance festival, June 2016. The audience was invited to put on headphones with the following binaural immersive soundtrack and wander around the standing bodies of performers. But their bodies only seem to be still and actually they perform a 'little dance' because standing is our movement upwards against the gravity, they keep breathing and blood keeps circulating. The main aim of the piece is to get to that state of mind where we can see what is already there, the fulfilled emptiness.

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Forest | Лес

Sensing Echoes is a performative sound installation which is aiming to explore how we can use echolocation for navigating ourselves in the city. The visitors are asked to put on headphones, to choose a comfortable place in a gallery and close their eyes. How do people find their way if they do not see? Listen and make one step after the other with your eyes closed. 
(sorry the track is in Russian only)
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Чувствуя Эхо - перформативная звуковая инсталляция, предлагающая посетителю пережить опыт прогулки по городу с закрытыми глазами и ощутить как слепые и слабовидящие люди ориентируются по звуку, используя такое явление как эхолокация.  
Выставка ЗВУКОЧТО в галерее Граунд Ходынка, 2016

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Sensing Echoes | Чувствуя Эхо

In Search of the Music is a site-specific sound performance created for a dancer, musician and a super directional shot-gun microphone, which took place at Kings Cross Square, London. It explores the choreography of recording with a boom, the juxtaposition of heard/unseen and seen/unheard, and the possibilities of sound to zoom in and zoom out, guiding our attention.

Musician Matt Marks
Dancer Melania Pallini

In Search Of The Music

suikinkutsu - a water sound installation in Enkoji Temple garden in Kyoto, Japan

Katrin Reshetnikova