circostanze sonore at 48 Stunden Neukölln

SLEX ART will present a new interpretation of the piece ‘circostanze sonore’ (sonic circumstances) as part of the festival 48 Stunden Neukölln spanning June 28-30, 2024. The piece exists as an installation that blends with a performance.

The event is free and open to the public. From 14:45-15:30, the installation and performance will take place at Berliner Berg Brauerie, Treptower Straße 39, 12059 Berlin. More info can be found here.

Sirens, rumbling U-bahns, tires on cobblestone, endless construction… The incessant noise of the city wears us down, tarnishes us like a bicycle thrown in the Spree.

circostanze sonore (sonic circumstances) premiered in 2022 in Bellinzona, Switzerland as a multi-channel sound installation created by recording everyday sounds of Berlin. Now the project returns to Berlin and is reinterpreted with the addition of a contemporary dance soloist.

circostanze sonore includes samples from the album “cuts from a distorted life” created by Aris Pedrioli (crumbled). Field recordings of daily mundane sounds such as rustling cigarette papers, the clicks of a keyboard, and the loudspeakers of the S-bahn are distorted and pushed to the extreme, forcing the audience to consider them when they otherwise go unnoticed among the loud silence of urban life.

During the performance, the dancer acts as the conduit between the audience and the sound installation. She interprets the heavy soundscape by moving in glitchy and sporadic ways, animating the effect that constant sound has on the human psyche.

SLEX ART (Jenna Berlyn, Aris Pedrioli)

SLEX ART is an interdisciplinary collective founded by Jenna Berlyn and Aris Pedrioli and based in Berlin. The collective exists as a meeting point of the physical and metaphysical, visual and auditory. It uses the performative body as a tangible medium among digital landscapes. SLEX aims to use the inherent tension of relating as a source of motivation, with relationships between people, places and emotions providing endless inspiration. The pieces created by SLEX are characterized by visceral visual and aural environments, with elements of contemporary dance and raw, textural sound scores. Their creations exist as site specific installations, live performances and digital materials.