Friendship sonification and field-recording sound composition 
2020
Droevendaal
This composition is an intimate sonic journey of my friendship with Esteban. In this piece, I take food as a lens to talk about identity and interpersonal relations. Asking multiple common friends in the Netherlands the question: ‘If Esteban would be a dessert, what would he be?’, we composed together an interwoven sonic metaphor of friendship. End of 2020, Esteban returned to his home country Costa Rica - a move creating physical distance between his and my life. Listening back to YOU, AN UNSOAKED RED BEAN is an evocative step into the past which brings back a sense of closeness. It is a reminder of the power of sonic mediums to transcend geographical distances and create spaces of proximity.
Sound © Kristina Mau Hansen
Image © Esteban Montero Sanchez

You, an unsoaked red bean

Kristina Mau Hansen is a sound designer, artist and DJ.
Her work attunes to the relations between people and places and questions the role of sound in making memory, identity and everyday life. In 2021, she founded the art space SOUND KIOSK from where she runs sound walks, workshops, art education projects and collaborations with other artists and researchers.
She is from the Danish/German border region in Germany and currently based in Wageningen, NL.

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