group exhibition and performance
Exhibition opening and performances: Monday, June 12, 2017 at 8:00 p.m. @ large and small hall of Pogon Jedinstvo, Trnjanski nasip bb, Zagreb
The exhibition is open on June 13 and 14, 2017 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Free entrance.

Experiment, research and hybrid forms – fifth Sound Art Incubator at Mochvara Gallery

The fifth group exhibition of Sound Art Incubator project showcases young and emerging artists which investigate sound as an artistic medium. Developed as part of the Mochvara Gallery programme, Sound Art Incubator is a production platform that publishes an annual open call for artists working with sound in order to produce and present their works. Experiment, research and hybrid art forms are continuously in the focus of the platform, as well as this year's exhibition and performances presenting new productions and co-productions realized through Sound Art Incubator.

Nine authors and eight artworks demonstrate the wide spectrum of themes and formats through which sound is investigated by this artistic scene, from the more intimate impressions of the quotidian, to research into media and technology of sound reproduction. Melodic quality and noise of the everyday life are an important topic in the works of Ana Sladetić and Jason Mulhausen, as well as in the interactive installation of the Beat Busters collective (Damjan Blažun & Filip Borelli). Tin Dožić and Hrvoje Spudić deal with properties of the media and interventions in methods of sound recording and reproduction in their installations, while Hrvoje Pelicarić and Marijo Franić investigate relations and influences between the physical body, space, human perception and sound. At the exhibition opening, Andrija Santro will gather the Delay's Choir – six performers who will use audio effects to manipulate sound in time, and time in sound.

Sound Art Incubator 2017 presents again a small insight into the young artistic scene dealing with sound as a subject, inspiration, mean of expression and topic – a quick sneak peek into the future of local new media arts.

Jason Mulhausen
JASON MULHAUSEN, student at the Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb in the Department of Animated Film and New Media. He is from the United States and works in the fields of art, theatre, and design. 
contact: jason.mulhausen@gmail.com  

Thinking Out Loud, a sound installation that gives a priority to the micro soundscape happening in our computer's processing. The internal components are fitted with electromagnetic and audio sensors to elevate what is typically silent or almost silent. The rhythms and sounds produced by our computing machine's components each have their own voice. 

Beat Busters (Damjan Blažun & Filip Borelli)
DAMJAN BLAŽUN, a musical producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and audio engineer. In the past ten years he has worked with Chui, The Frajle, Kandžija i Gole žene, Kristijan Rahimovski, Tena Novak, Žen and other musicians. His engagement in various films and advertising as author, foley artist, engineer and composer has enabled him to present his work at Pula Film Festival, Festival of short film Zagreb, Zagreb Film Festival and others. In the past years he has worked at Radio Student in Zagreb as radio host, DJ and producer of a live music radio show. At the moment he is active in Mimika Orkestar, his own project Blackprint, the Croatian-Slovene band called On, the Slovene band Person from Porlock, Vibra Studio, MIMO, Vibrabox project and Indirekt festival. He graduated musical production at the SAE Institute.
contact: beat-busters.com | dam.blazun@gmail.com   

FILIP BORELLI, author of concepts dealing with sound and light, living in Zagreb where he also graduated at Faculty of Economics and Business. He is working in the field of performance, photography, musical and video production since 2009. As a member of Beat Busters collective he participated in production of interactive and audio-visual projects with the main goal of developing technology in the artistic context.
contact: borellifilip@gmail.com  

Beat Busters XYZ, an interactive audio-visual installation which aims at demonstrating the melodic nature of our environment – more precisely, the resonance of people’s footsteps. Even though the floor on which we walk sometimes seems neutral and monochromatic, the sound of our shoes made from different materials give a certain melody and rhythm, which we rarely perceive. The project demonstrates that even our walk can generate music. The Beat Busters XYZ installation can be used by one person or more people at once, and the result can vary from a calming ambience to a chaotic one – depending on the surfaces on which one walks on and the behaviour of the audiences.

Ana Sladetić
ANA SLADETIĆ (Vukovar, 1985), graduated in 2009 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, the Graphic Arts Department. In 2016 she got her PHD at the same Academy. She participated in over 105 group and 11 solo exhibitions in Croatia and abroad, including exhibitions in London, New York, Ireland, South Korea, China and Germany. She received awards for her work and held numerous lectures and workshops in collaboration with local and international cultural institutions, museums and galleries. Since 2011 she is an assistant in the artistic field of visual arts, graphic arts, at the Academy of Arts Osijek. She lives and works in Samobor.
contact: anasladetic.com | anasladetic@gmail.com  

Soundscapes – Impulses, a sound installation representing the sound of a drawing. Contrary to the artworks, which are controlled by the outer psychological stimuli, Ana Sladetić is interested in physical stimulations that surround us, and how they are affected by the unconscious. Impulses from 2013 is a series of works that came from the inability to control a graphical line during a four hour bus ride from home to work (Zagreb to Osijek) and back. The artist has let the environment take control over the drawing on the paper and she used her body, her hand, as a filter and transmitter of the stimuli. The process resulted in shaken, unrestrained lines. The environment (in this case the bus ride and the space in motion) affects the human in a certain way through vibrations, and by capturing these unconscious vibrations an interesting aesthetics of forms and drawings has been revealed. Using a hand scanner these drawings are translated into sounds represented at the exhibition. Interesting transfers from internal to external and back are made through parallel relations between sound from within the bus, drawing and translating the drawing back into sounds.

Tin Dožić
Tin Dožić (Rijeka, 1989.), graduated psychology at the University Department for Croatian Studies and new media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. In his artistic work, he focuses on sound as a media, and is engaged in field recordings, radio and experimental music. He performed and presented his work at many different platforms in Croatia and abroad, as a solo artist and through collaborative projects (Showroom of Contemporary Sound, MIMO, Sine Linea, Sound Art Incubator, Device_art).
contact: tindozic@gmail.com

Microethers, an artwork based on relations between elements taken from electronic waste and radio transmitters. Dožić is interested in reviving the components such as old electromotors and power converters. These components in action emit a certain signal, which disturbs the correct functioning of the radio transmitters and can be heard instead of the original content of the AM radio. In this manner, Dožić creates a network of small emissions, each dedicated to one specific electronic element and inscribed directly in radio transmitters.

Marijo Franić
MARIJO FRANIĆ (Zagreb, 1982), for years engaged in music production and music, design, illustration, video, research into new technologies and human interactions. For the past seven years, he works as a designer, artistic director and illustrator, independently and within agencies.
contact: mario.franic@gmail.com

O, interactive installation which establishes parameters for co-creation of forms of sound as a bio-synthetic bridge. The author uses the frequency of a person and its "given framework" for the subject of transfiguration and evolution through perception – using ourselves as patterns in the representation of the sound itself. Using the inner “flexibilities”, answers to different questions are being posed and parameters of the forms of the sound are given, sending out the current record of the subject acting as a mediator for the realization of the composition. Coordination of this system involves all that is accumulated in the consciousness of the subject and beyond, as an algorithm of sound events and its representation – a print of the individual will in an encrypted recording, which now lives through the perception of physics and colour of the tone. The created vibrational font of the cyclic system is followed by and in continuous creation of an array of physical-acoustic phenomena. A tone generated by this raster of an entity being translated into and interactive reflex is reproduced and stimulated, depending on the position and state of the visitor in the exhibition space. Music is made by two musicians – a conscious and an unconscious half of the matrix of every present individual. Music, just like a camera, records and transmits co-existence of the two apparently separated concurrencies that now, just as some old-new vocabulary, emphasize and define the perceived reality. We become aware and a part of many layers of diverse frequencies, which connect and build the form of a new body as the single truly authentic instrument and a compound of the musical composition. A complete psychological presence is being used as an introspective extension of the sound material, in order to define the architecture of sound. The basis is in the most direct and close "collaboration" between the bios of the visitor, which creates the clear emotional response to the matrix of music in reflection with its given charge.
From a text by Miro Župa

Hrvoje Spudić
HRVOJE SPUDIĆ, graduated in 2015 at the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb. Outside the architectural field he is engaged in the research of technological aspects and techniques of photography. He moderates a series of workshops in Zagreb and Dublin (DIY primitive photography, Cyanotype, DIY stereoscopy). Together with Sven Sorić, he is part of the This Town Needs Posters collective since 2012 dedicated to making posters by using DIY printing techniques. At the Light in Places festival in 2015 he presented the audio-visual installation "window" with Ana-Marija Petričević and Tin Dožić.
contact: hrvojespudic@gmail.com

Light Analysis, an audio-visual installation investigating the sound image of the 16mm film, which, as a media, has the possibility to carry two types of recordings – image and sound. However, as the analogue film bares sensitivity only to light, both recordings have to be recorded optically. Due to this technological limitation, the recording of sound onto the filmstrip translates vibrations of the soundwave into light vibrations. It is then possible to use the sound for the purpose of light analysis. As a tool for the analysis, Spudić used a modified 16mm movie projector in order to have a reversed function: to play a non-illuminated film while the projector lamp modulated by the sound signal illuminates the film, causing the sound and image to be recorded simultaneously. The same projector is then returned to its original state and used to play the recordings. By using optical filters, the light is analysed, and the result can be heard through the sound signal.
The installation was produced with the support of Klubvizija SC.

Hrvoje Pelicarić
HRVOJE PELICARIĆ (Split, 1974), graduated sound at The SAE Institute in The Netherlands in 2002, and Film and Video at the Arts Academy, University of Split in 2013. He is currently a second year MA student at the same academy, Department of Media Arts. He is engaged in sound design and has presented his work in several group and one solo exhibition, as well as within the radio show Picture of Sound. 
contact: hrvoje.pelicaric@gmail.com

Scaled down flux point (for sphere, 8 ear-piece loudspeakers and Umwelt*), an eight-channel spatial sound installation comprised of a sphere for the head of the visitor equipped with miniature multichannel sound system. The internal environment is constructed exclusively from sound material, reproduced in controlled conditions of the sphere, while the rest of the stimuli is suppressed to a minimum. At the same time, the sphere serves as an acoustic focal point and point of change for the existing ratios: emotion of the miniature sound is reinforced, projected towards the inside, reduced in size, intimate. The listener is placed in the focal point where internal images are assembled, and the flow of internal and external time is being exposed.
(*Umwelt: "self-centred world", “environment”, “surroundings”; an external world perceived from the point of view of the inhabiting organisms. Organisms can have different Umwelts even though they live in the same surroundings)

Andrija Santro
ANDRIJA SANTRO (Zabok, 1989), graduated from the School for Applied Arts and Design in Zagreb in 2008. In 1998 he started taking piano lessons at a musical school, a firm basis for his future artistic work. He began researching in the field of sound synthesis in 2004, when he replaced the piano with sound synthesizer, computer, sound effects and other tools for musical production. From 2008 on he joined various musical collectives and started the Yoghurt Gallery with a few colleagues in the Autonomous Cultural Centre – Attack!, transforming it later on into the art project Antibiotic during which he presented over ten artworks (installations, video, performance). He played over 150 concerts with different bands and collectives (Bamwise, Pridjevi, I-tal Jam, Digitron) and participated in numerous group improvisations (CUL-de-SAC - Accelerated Evolution Orchestra, Nomad Jam, etc.). Together with other performers he created sound for the animated movie Protoplazma and music for documentary film Ana Trg. Since 2010 he is investigating light design and improving his knowledge in this field through non-formal education. He set light to more than 20 theatre shows and performances, and numerous concerts and festivals.
contact: andrija.santro@gmail.com

Delays Choir, a sound performance focused on repetitive interpretation of audio symbols. It involves multiple performers which manipulate one audio recording through audio effects (delays, echoes) creating their own individual "memory" of the given symbol and forming a "collective memory" through the collaboration. Symbols are created through vibrations and comprise of noise. The goal is to create harmonious vibrations through manipulations – to form a tone. A composition forms from these tones made through the changes of the sound frequencies, their repetition and modulation. Delays Choir are six performers, each of them having one audio effect – delay. The given audio signal reproduced and split into six channels enters at the same time each of the devices where it is being repeated, modulated, amplified and quieted. Marked by the sound features of the specific device, each delay becomes individual, together with its performer. A group of these individuals make the Choir. Delays Choir are: Jasmin Dasović, Igor Ivanković, Ognjen Zečević, Jadranko Kereković, Robert Martinović and Andrija Santro.

IMPRINT
Mochvara Gallery, June 2017
www.mochvara.hr/galerija-mochvara, www.kontejner.org
galerija@mochvara.hr, kontejner@kontejner.org
organizers: Culture Development Association “URK” + Mochvara Club & KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art praxis
concept: KONTEJNER
curators of Mochvara Gallery: KONTEJNER | Ena Hodžić & Tereza Teklić
Technical director: Andrija Santro
design: Ruta
public relations: Jelena Matičić & Danijel Badanjak
print: Tiskara Zelina
print run: 300
media partners: Transmeet.tv, Vizkultura, Kulturpunkt, Radio Student, Ziher
supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb, Kultura Nova Foundatio