For the second edition of INTERSECT. Series, Alida Sun, Saba Alizadeh, Martin Hurych x Wilf Amis, and Klyl Shifroni come together to present their works which delve into diverse approaches to improvisation. This iteration delves into the utilization of found sounds, acoustic instruments, spatial elements, creative coding, and a multitude of interactive components within the realm of free improvisation.

“Orchestra of Resonance” by Klyl Shifroni

"Orchestra of Resonance” is a live performed sound installation, beckoning the listener to become a part of the experience. The performed installation deals with the materiality of sound by spatializing sounding objects in space. In the installation, ordinary objects are repurposed to ‘play themselves’ by resonating and feedbacking their harmonic content to reverberate through their bodies. The multi-component system serves as a platform for improvisation as a tool for discovering. Guiding the piece is a live exploration of the system's resonances. In addition, sensors that track the listener's position monitor the space between the instruments and transfer the audience movement into sonic data allowing the listeners to interact in real-time with sound components, shaping the piece's evolution and contributing to the unfolding narrative.

Klyl Shifroni is a sound composer, working with the materiality of sound and its reverberation in space through acoustic instruments, resonating objects, field recordings, and digital sound synthesis. Her practice involves playing, recording, audio processing, and performing. Currently, she is studying at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague, researching the intersection between environments and instruments.

Martin Hurych & Wilf Amis DUO

Martin Hurych (he/him) (CZ/NL) and Wilf Amis (they/them) (UK/NL) are a duo of live electronic improvisers working out of The Hague.
They process each other in an infinitely recursive loop, a little like when you have a mirror in front of and behind you. Hurych's mirror samples its input and sets AI to the task of timbrally sorting this sample material for on the fly sequencing. Amis's mirror smears these inputs or ties them in knots of distorted feedback. Together they tend to spend their time bathing in a swamp of arrhythmia until they find themselves suddenly coalescing into pulse.

Wilf Amis (they/them) is a Hague-based London-born composer, improviser, synth designer and writer. You can expect microtonal synth nerdery, well-disguised bad singing, textural plunderphonics, arhythmic breaks and blown out kicks. Recently they have been rethinking everything through a cybernetic lens and so they are now more annoying to talk to but at least their methods of synth patching are more efficient at crunching complexity.

Martin Hurych is a sound artist, architect, and curator based in The Hague (NL) and Lubná (CZ). He works with field and documentary recordings, makes codes and synths, creates installations and platforms. The artist is known for a certain amount of exaggeration and warm humor, but at the same time he is sensitive to social problems. As a curator, he collaborates with a young generation of artists moving across genres of visual art, film, sound art, and music. Hurych is a co-founder and curator of the Přespolní association, organizing a cultural programme in the countryside of the Czech Republic (since 2017). He is also currently a research associate at the Institute of Sonology (since 2022).

"Through Darkness I Sing” by Saba Alizadeh

An electro-acoustic performance, using found sounds of a demonstration in the southern part of Iran & processed Kamancheh.

Born and based in Tehran, Saba Alizadeh is an unparalleled figure at the forefront of contemporary Iranian music. Saba is deeply rooted in Iranian classical music and a virtuoso on Kamancheh, but at the same time, he is curious about the notion of tradition, which is the reason that makes him a multi-talented, forward-thinking composer/performer. Saba also uses a lot of manipulated historical audio recordings and field recordings in a musique concrete fashion. Treating sound as an object has always been Alizadeh’s fascination. Saba's musical career branches into two different paths.

“DAY 1858” by Alida Sun

Alida Sun is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice integrates presence, resistance, and the nature of adaptation in the age of algorithms. Every day for over 1,800 days and counting she has coded and built new generative artwork encompassing installation, sound, architecture, choreography, drawing and light.

Her work has been exhibited at bitforms, Kraftwerk Berlin, Ars Electronica, Unit London, and audiovisual festivals around the world.