fascinating piece and thanks for the description ! very organic experience

Finally returning to Italy (Sardinia to be precise) post Covid in a couple of months to go on residency. In anticipation of this adventure I will upload a few Italy based works from festivals etc that i have made over the last few years. This work  premiered as part of the 2021 Helicotrema festival. Official arty wanky explanation below:
'Whilst my yearly travel to Italy from my hometown of Hobart in Australia is halted due to the pandemic I have been increasingly aware of other more subtle forms of travel. In particular, how sound itself travels has become an important aspect of my research with more sound files being sent across the globe and conversations with other artists via zoom and mobile phone replacing the face to face communication I have been used to. 

Sound travels at 1225kms an hour but ever since radio broadcasting was developed we can hear things from anywhere in the world instantly. Sound can ,in a way ,also time-travel - I can play recordings from the past and re-live the experience of being there. 

With these ideas in mind I wrote (the work  using a live stream audio stream from Venice that was mixed with a live local recording 13.5 hours (the time the sound would have taken to travel to Hobart) after it was broadcast. This combined audio recording of Venice and Hobart formed the raw material which was manipulated and arranged to evoke some of the many sensations of physical travel - movement, wonder, fear, enchantment, loneliness and adventure. 

Unedited field recordings from my archives are introduced at the 4 minute mark - one of the Grande Canal sent to me in 2019 and one of the main highway in my hometown which I sent to a colleague in Italy in 2020. These recordings capture the main routes of travel in their respective cities and bridge the past with the present creating a sound collage that travels through time.

In keeping with the theme of how sound travels the entire piece was written and mixed in 13.5hours, echoing the time it would take for sound to travel between Hobart and Venice.'

Viaggio di andata

Performers: Ian Ellul, violin — Alexander Leman, piano
Recorded on 17/05/2024 at Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel

Tidwir (2024) for violin and piano

rKde

Know Yourself

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In øyeblikk (that means “instant” in norwegian), the instant is conceived as the place of sound: a listening window in which perceptual coordinates—energy, spectral distribution, microtime, spatiality—are defined, locating sound within a recognizable region. Form emerges as a trajectory between these places: condensations that turn sound into pressure and contact, and rarefactions that expose grain, residues, and micro-fluctuations. Rather than describing an event, the piece constructs a geography: thresholds where the conditions of audibility change (masking, saturation, transparency), and where sonic matter presents itself not as an object, but as a traversable environment. The “instant” of the title is therefore a point of orientation: not a frame, but a position.

øyeblikk (2025-26)

An exploration of the BCF2000
Performed at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussels, Dec 17th, 2025

Often, when performing electronic music, we experience a completely different feeling than acoustic or traditional instrument musicians. The electronic medium is often deprived of a sense of being a “true instrument”. We may add hands-on control via an interface that could simulate and replace that sense of touch, but the connection with the actual sound generation is still a little thin.
For this piece, I chose to use a controller that could both be my interface with the computer and the acoustic source for those sounds and noises I wanted to process digitally, in an attempt to reunite the two actions into the one device.

Thanks to Benjamin Van Esser for the guidance.

Sound - Romain Reuzé
Recording - Lorenz Van Berckelaer

A video version is available at https://youtu.be/IUv5Ah8bC64

Buzz clicks and fizzles - December 2025

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