The project Re-soundings explores a extended concept of listening, according to which the sonic present is a resonant space that we share with others, the space of a coming and a passing, of extending and penetrating. In the post-human space of telematic reality, sound presents itself as modulated by significant processes of body reconstruction and the relationship between presence and absence. The listening subject emerges in the context of intelligent systems integrated to human-machine interfaces. How can we be penetrated and project yourselves towards the others? How to modulate, fo ..read more

Vega_S (2019) electronic sounds and video is a remarkable piece that represents a mature stage of Igor Kefadis audiovisual composition style. Here, the electroacoustic music seems to bring forth the imagery, as though the sounds are endowed with visual symbolism. The visual composition by Andrew Quinn takes advantage of the imaginative character of the music and seeks to create an organic relationship through the use of a thin white vertical line in the middle of the screen that varies in brightness according to the music. The line turns into a narrow dark space separating two walls tha ..read more

Filmed by creating an autonomous mechanical structure, an immersive relationship is fostered, focusing on the flickering of the light. For a fraction of a second, chaos and order coexist. This may create a slight unease, a momentary frustration that could escalate as a dialogue begins, expectations arise, desires aren’t realized, and the politics of control are questioned with the territorial nature of anxiety. Anxiety acts as an epistemological instrument to disturb one into looking at the crescendos that emerge within people in isolation as we delve deeper into the concrete-jungle ind ..read more

Watching birds is an ancient tradition which has had not only an aesthetic but also mystical side. Thus, there existed flamens-augurs in ancient Rome, who interpreted the will of gods according to the birds’ flights and cries. Augurs’ watching flocks of birds practice has become a source of inspiration for creation of the audiovisual composition “Murmur”. Its central idea is the reflection of the murmuration phenomenon – the concerted flight of huge flocks of birds shaping volumetric forms in the sky with constantly changing density and momentum. Margarita Stepanova Studied compositi ..read more

EXPOSED: Documenting COVID-19 in the criminal punishment system The interactive documentary EXPOSED was conceived in a state of ‘emergency,’ to provide a cumulative public record and evolving history of the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on incarcerated people. EXPOSED, documents the spread of COVID-19, over time, inside prisons, jails, and detention centers across the US, from the perspective of prisoners and their families. Original interviews, combined with quotes, audio clips, and statistics collected from a comprehensive array of online publications and broadcasts, are assembled into ..read more

Living In Limbo is a video that includes a 3D space made during pandemic times where I was unable to reach Venice to continue working on the serie of pictures I was making there. I had to create my own Venice, I had to imagine a place where my pictures could stand and tell the story of a city so famous and based on tourism that it became more and more fake. My pictures stand for my personal experience of Venice, my family, my friends, in a space that reminds of the actual city but it looks like a videogame. Emma de Felice I was born in Venice, Italy. I studied Visual Arts at IUAV Uni ..read more

Project Link Self Portrait in Place was a self portrait that mingled on-site and digital elements. In May 2021, the work was scattered within a kilometer of the apartment where I lived in Paris’ Montmartre quarter from June 2020 to June 2021 during the COVID pandemic, while undergoing treatment for breast cancer. The version I am submitting is an online version of that walking portrait. Visitors received a map with twelve sites they could chose to visit in any order. Viewable, palpable, on-site materials were enlivened by slides shows, videos and audio recordings accessible on a cell pho ..read more

In May 2021, the minds behind the EARS Student Group and EOI Records, along with the organizers of the ¡Que Viva Mexico! event, hosted the largest virtual, transnational, and audiovisual Songwriting Camp ever to be seen around the world. These 12 audiovisual works are the product of this camp and were all created in a single weekend. The participants of this camp were from the EARS Student Group at UCR, EARS Mexico, and other EARS friends from across the world. We are students in various majors and from countless diverse backgrounds. More than students, we are artists and musicians wh ..read more

“Passagem” is the first song and videoclip for experimental, ambient and drone music project “sinais”, by Bernardo Pádua. Based on the sound of the cello and its relationship with the sung voice, the song contrasts the textures and repetition patterns that define ambient and drone music with melodic singing, more akin to popular music. The video, made by Lucas Almeida, consists in a manipulation of archive footage, turning images of big crowds in movement into fluttering, flowing stains of colour against the dark, which, together with the music’s harmonies and lyrics, create an atmosphe ..read more

MP5 is an interactive audiovisual EP. The name MP5 is a cheeky relative of the MP3 (audio) and MP4 (audio+video). The 5 indicates an extra dimension (audio+video+interaction). MP5 aims to give users/listeners agency over their experience of the work and equally encourage passive or active engagement. Time and space are loosely bounded and the arrangement is driven by the path of the user. You can stay in one place for minutes or quickly traverse through the audiovisual landscape. MP5 was made with p5js (for visuals) and Web Audio (for sound). Most of the sounds were previo ..read more