Negative Voids
2025
Installative Performace
Negative
Voids is a two-day event that
transforms Morphine Raum into an active sonic system, where space becomes an
interface to explore the different agents of technological modes of listening.
Based on technologies of active noise control, echo cancellation and feedback
suppression, the performances activate the space through sound, gestures and
texts. Audiences enter a system where listening becomes a conscious act of
doubt, and where preconceived definitions of sound, silence and noise are
challenged. By reimagining how noise reduction technologies operate, Negative
Voids reveals the residual and peripheral sounds that remain hidden at the
edges of digital mediation, emphasizing the tension between cancellation and
exposure.
Conceived as a two-evening event each night
proposes a different intention toward listening:
Friday 21 – Absence: Roberta
Busechian and Augustė Vickunaitė.
The decontextualization of signals through noise reduction makes
evident the absence of a medium…
Saturday 22 – Refusal: Mariana
Carvalho and Nour Sokhon.
…while the recontextualization of its byproducts reinterprets
them as compositional material, refusing their imposed definition as noise.
Across both evenings, Negative
Voids provides an opportunity to
listen through interference, to inhabit the interface, and explore the gaps
where noise resists erasure. The empty spaces discarded by technology become
negative voids, places of sonic exploration.