18 Maart Sam Dunscobe, audio artist

Sam Dunscombeis a performer, composer, sound artist, and audio engineer. She works with clarinets, computers, and microphones. Dunscombe’s interest lies in the different ways music lets us experience time and she has been deeply involved in research on the role of music in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. Forvan Horen Zeggen, Dunscombe will present a live performance of the field-recording-sourcedTwo Forests / Oceanicin the former metal workplace, Salon de IJzerstaven.

Two Forests (2F)starts in a central Californian sequoia grove. It ends in the Amazon rainforest next to the city of Manaus, Brazil. The path between the two is forged out by field recordings of bird song and insect buzzing, treated with slices, delays, and recombination. In doing so, Dunscombe unpeels the field recordings of their linearity and documentary character. The recordings are reframed into “an enchanted web of traces and echoes.” Furthermore, using the pitches from the recordings, Dunscombe constructs a large just…