Fontána
Vodná Ruža
Site-specific composition/
2025
A sound composition made for a specific fountain in Bratislava, as part of the Listening to Fountains project by Eva Sajanová.
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Voice and text by Celestina MInichová
Mixing and mastering by Francesco Broccoli
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Voice and text by Celestina MInichová
Mixing and mastering by Francesco Broccoli
Listening Topologies
Sound Installation
Interactive environment
Listening Topologies was a framework developed during a summer Residency in Hranice - in Czech Republic, at KRAVIN rural arts in Hranice - Vysočina. Researched through a process based series of site specific interventions and an interractive installation, developed on the site. The work was inspired by the local landscape and the concept of Sound-mapping.
The body of work examines how boundaries and borders can be reinterpreted through sonic representations and speculative mapping.
Sonic maps, which allow us to scroll through the sonority of specific places, sometimes out of our reach. They invite us to see the world from the perspective of a listener, instead of a viewer. I became interested in how similar kinds of projects, based in the digital spaces, can bring
us different perspectives on navigating our physical reality.
“When I am field recording, hunting for sounds, either alone or with someone, I get into a state when I am mainly trying to perceive
the landscape through sound. I let that sensation lead my walk. It is a state when sound leads my body and shapes a trajectory in space.
I give this form of navigation the same value as following a regular map.”
The idea was based on a MaxMSP patch that re-arranges the captured field recordings into a new sonic topology - an interractive sonic map of Hranice. This sound map becomes activated through visitors' interaction with a light source that can be moved in space. Depending
on the position of the light, different field recordings from the map are triggered, the visitor defines which part of the map will be listened to.
With every new placement of the light,the visitor gets a different listening experience from the local landscape.
Developed during summer Residency in Czech Republic, at KRA Vysočina, in 2025, suppported by Visegrad Fonts
The body of work examines how boundaries and borders can be reinterpreted through sonic representations and speculative mapping.
Sonic maps, which allow us to scroll through the sonority of specific places, sometimes out of our reach. They invite us to see the world from the perspective of a listener, instead of a viewer. I became interested in how similar kinds of projects, based in the digital spaces, can bring
us different perspectives on navigating our physical reality.
“When I am field recording, hunting for sounds, either alone or with someone, I get into a state when I am mainly trying to perceive
the landscape through sound. I let that sensation lead my walk. It is a state when sound leads my body and shapes a trajectory in space.
I give this form of navigation the same value as following a regular map.”
The idea was based on a MaxMSP patch that re-arranges the captured field recordings into a new sonic topology - an interractive sonic map of Hranice. This sound map becomes activated through visitors' interaction with a light source that can be moved in space. Depending
on the position of the light, different field recordings from the map are triggered, the visitor defines which part of the map will be listened to.
With every new placement of the light,the visitor gets a different listening experience from the local landscape.
Developed during summer Residency in Czech Republic, at KRA Vysočina, in 2025, suppported by Visegrad Fonts
Soniferous Garden
Installation 2023
Soniferous garden is a performing environment developed in collaboration with Cecilie Fang. The project is a result of a dialogue, forming a common ground for discussion about the extraction of soil and water from an eco-feminist perspective.
The installation creates an audiovisual Lo-fi site for listening and encountering the landscape.
An installation space to be activated through performance and interaction.
A third place to form a community through the repetition of gestures.
The installation creates an audiovisual Lo-fi site for listening and encountering the landscape.
An installation space to be activated through performance and interaction.
A third place to form a community through the repetition of gestures.
Site
An ongoing series of projects centered on collective listening.
Listening to and with the environment, these interventions invite participants to attune to environmentally problematic sites such as factories, and contaminated lakes. Through shared acts of listening, the projects explore how sensitivity and connectedness can emerge from sonic engagement — and how listening and sounding together might deepen our relationship with the environment.
Main thread of the project developed in 2023, in collaboration with Celestina Minichova. Our first organised event was called Another failed project. A collective performance exploring the interesections of Art and Activism through performative acts and situated discussion,
we wanted to invite the audience to a landfill in Bratislava, Vrakuňa, at the moment potentially endangering one of the biggest sources
of drinkable water in middle Europe -Žitný ostrov.
Site-specific group performance
Taking place at the Chemical waste dump CHZJD in Bratislava- Vrakuňa district. This location is a hidden place in the capital of Slovakia, where toxic substances are contaminating soil, underground water since 1966. The landfill in Vrakuna Bratislava - containing hazardous waste originating mostly from chemical industry - has been contaminating the soil and groundwater for over 30 years. The title of the performance reflects yet another failed attempt to solve this long-standing problem. Revealing the conditional interdependence between politics and the environment.
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Featuring and developed with:
Viktoria Arvayová, Adam Balogh, Silvia Binda Heiserova, Václav Janoščík, Fero Király, Celestína Minichová,
Kasha Potrohosh, Volodymyr Serhachov, Martin Toldy, Boris Vitázek, Marína Abramovič Po Sebe Neupratuje
You can read more about the project in this article: @mloki.sk (in Slovak)
Photos by Adam Balog, Lujza Reingraber and Lisa Achammer.
Listening to and with the environment, these interventions invite participants to attune to environmentally problematic sites such as factories, and contaminated lakes. Through shared acts of listening, the projects explore how sensitivity and connectedness can emerge from sonic engagement — and how listening and sounding together might deepen our relationship with the environment.
Main thread of the project developed in 2023, in collaboration with Celestina Minichova. Our first organised event was called Another failed project. A collective performance exploring the interesections of Art and Activism through performative acts and situated discussion,
we wanted to invite the audience to a landfill in Bratislava, Vrakuňa, at the moment potentially endangering one of the biggest sources
of drinkable water in middle Europe -Žitný ostrov.
Site-specific group performance
Taking place at the Chemical waste dump CHZJD in Bratislava- Vrakuňa district. This location is a hidden place in the capital of Slovakia, where toxic substances are contaminating soil, underground water since 1966. The landfill in Vrakuna Bratislava - containing hazardous waste originating mostly from chemical industry - has been contaminating the soil and groundwater for over 30 years. The title of the performance reflects yet another failed attempt to solve this long-standing problem. Revealing the conditional interdependence between politics and the environment.
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Featuring and developed with:
Viktoria Arvayová, Adam Balogh, Silvia Binda Heiserova, Václav Janoščík, Fero Király, Celestína Minichová,
Kasha Potrohosh, Volodymyr Serhachov, Martin Toldy, Boris Vitázek, Marína Abramovič Po Sebe Neupratuje
You can read more about the project in this article: @mloki.sk (in Slovak)
Photos by Adam Balog, Lujza Reingraber and Lisa Achammer.
Listening Workshop: That Which Waters the Ground - That Which Sound the Scape(s)
That Which Waters the Ground - That Which Sound the Scape(s) seeks to find possible answers to the question: How can we understand the environment to be able to (under)stand it and (under)stand with it? Through a series of meditative exercises, field recordings, movement, and speculative storytelling.
It is a workshop based on developing ideas about staying with problems. It is a process-oriented, site-dependent workshop that globally networks places, highlighting the relationships and connections between different parts of the world. The workshop aims to bring together participants from various creative backgrounds who are interested in discovering strategies that combine sound and movement in relation to the environment in which we find ourselves. Inspired by Pauline Oliveros and her concepts of deep listening, as well as Donna Haraway and Milan Adamčiak, we will navigatethrough the contexts of Žitný ostrov. Framed by 10 structured meditative exercises, we will listen, compose, and speculate on lyrical and epic stories—becoming aware of each other'spresence.
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Signalling Cell
Audiovisual Installation 2022
Signalling Cell consists of a projection of the water surface which is captured by a web camera. A hanging microphone in the centre
of the space is creating feedback with the speaker. The sound of the feedback is generating cymatic shapes on the water surface.
When visitors of the installation manipulate with the microphone they will change the sound and thereby influence the projected visuals.
If specific sound frequencies can influence cells in our body, to what extent are we then formed by the sound that is surrounding us?
Aim of the project was to create a space for listening to individual frequencies, to perceive their effect on one’s mind
and body.
Drawing from biology, our bodies respond to different cues by activating feedback mechanisms to maintain a stable internal state. Feedback mechanisms begin when there is an external stimulus that leads to changes away from the set point, that triggers the correct feedback loop. This works by the communication of cells between each other called cell signalling. Inspired by this phenomena, I was working with subwoofers to visualise the feedback between a speaker and a microphone on a water surface. I created a cell-like looking visual responding to the visitor’s interaction, to the external stimulus.
Signalling cell is an installation developed for the Art Machines Festival in Utrecht, 7 December 2022. The concept
was inspired by a workshop on sound feedback conducted by Edwin van der Heide, hosted by Creative Coding Utrecht.
of the space is creating feedback with the speaker. The sound of the feedback is generating cymatic shapes on the water surface.
When visitors of the installation manipulate with the microphone they will change the sound and thereby influence the projected visuals.
If specific sound frequencies can influence cells in our body, to what extent are we then formed by the sound that is surrounding us?
Aim of the project was to create a space for listening to individual frequencies, to perceive their effect on one’s mind
and body.
Drawing from biology, our bodies respond to different cues by activating feedback mechanisms to maintain a stable internal state. Feedback mechanisms begin when there is an external stimulus that leads to changes away from the set point, that triggers the correct feedback loop. This works by the communication of cells between each other called cell signalling. Inspired by this phenomena, I was working with subwoofers to visualise the feedback between a speaker and a microphone on a water surface. I created a cell-like looking visual responding to the visitor’s interaction, to the external stimulus.
Signalling cell is an installation developed for the Art Machines Festival in Utrecht, 7 December 2022. The concept
was inspired by a workshop on sound feedback conducted by Edwin van der Heide, hosted by Creative Coding Utrecht.
Visitors interacting with the installation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBGuWHo1-GI