Selected Writings
A hybrid listening across totems and talking wires. Acoustic Ecology Review. Vol. 1 No. 1 (2023): Proceedings of the 'Listening Pasts, Listening Futures' 2023 World Forum for Acoustic Ecology Conference.
Atmospheric Attunement weather data sonification with ubiquitous sensor nodes. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Ubiquitous Music.
AUGURY: an interface for generating soundscapes inspired by ancient divination. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2023.
Computing atmospheric attunement and hybrid listening through Augury and Scrying. Xcoax 2023. Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X - Weimar, Germany.
klimaton ARCTIC≈2020 addresses the problem of communicability of scientific facts in the context of climate change in the form of a generative sound object. It questions the nature of doubt in the sciences and addresses the lack of a cultural approach to the earth as a holistic entity.
klimaton ARCTIC≈2020 from Studio Softić on Vimeo.
The work is situated between science communication, eco-politics, technology production, and art production—based on a seminal event in scientific research: late 2020, the research expedition MOSAiC returned from its Arctic voyage, having spent more than a year collecting data with a kilometer-long network of measuring stations. It is the largest scientific data collection from the region ever and possibly also one of the last large-scale recordings of a disappearing landscape that is considered by scientists to be “the key witness of climate change.”
Large data archives are by no means a solution to the problem as long as their contents are not given a socially accepted meaning. But should such efforts be left to science alone? Or does a transfer of those digital archives into collective memory need to take place via detours that do not rely exclusively on reason and predefined scientific rules?
Together with a group of MOSAiC scientists, the composer Thies Mynther and a technical team including Juan Duarte, Chris von Rautenkranz, Martin Edelmann, and Jan Münther, the artist duo Adnan Softić and Nina Softić developed a sound instrument that outputs the data from the Arctic as sound—creating a large scale sonified portrait of a disappearing landscape. The instrument is a hybrid between a sonification device and a music instrument—allowing an open approach to the data.
The private living space has always had a function as a place of refuge, comfort, but also as a repository of personal identities.
Since the outbreak of the pandemic, the exceptional position of home quarantine, and an immensely high focus on our personal living spaces, the “home” can no longer be regarded as the once closed unit, it appears instead as a space of progressive exposure -not least due to the constant exchange of data with public digital networks.
“See you at Home” is an installation oscillating between the physical and the virtual dimensions, with the aim to explore the meaning of private and intimate space in times of ubiquitous connectivity. It represents the concept of a public living space, providing a stage for encounters, joint awareness, and personal exchange.
The foundation piece of this work is an ever-growing global archive in Virtual Reality of glimpses into the domesticated private spheres of a digitally networked population. This VR Experience manifests a multitude of fragmented narratives of personal spaces, intimate routines, and memories; a variety of snapshots collected in more than 40 countries during the most intense periods of self-isolation and home confinement over the past two years.
Through a series of interactive lecture performances, hosted in Zoom and on Mozilla Hubs, this archive of privacy expands with local, individual content. In these performances, the audience is invited to a collective room journey through their own homes and the private spaces of carefully chosen protagonists around the globe, to open up the discourse on intimacy in the digital age and sharpen the perception of the privilege of privacy.
Link to the Online version of the project
“See You At Home” was produced in collaboration with Goethe-Institut China and ETH Zurich. The VR Archive “The Smallest of Worlds – A Landscape of collected Privacy” was developed during CPH:LAB, part of CPH:DOX Documentary Film Festival 2021 and funded by Pixel, Bytes + Film 2021, BMKÖS (Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Public Service and Sports, Austria), and Deutscher Künstlerbund, Neustart Kultur.
This is a 15 minutes loop animation premiered in Röda Sten Konsthall exhibition "Tides of Time".
Pictures courtesy of Röda Sten Konsthall
Nekropolis (2016) Trailer from IC-98 on Vimeo.
My work consisted on generating sets of 3d animated clouds with turbulent formant behaviours as the sample below.
Comando Amazonas
Mexico City 2011
Pulsar Kite in Pollanokka (track 7) - as part of the compilation
Sonic Island - Hai Art. 2015