Beyond the visual and auditory there is the electromagnetic. Our surroundings are permeated with signals. Audiovisual signs aimed to nudge, convince, coerce or control. Today more than ever it is the electromagnetic that shows itself as the battleground for our collective imagination of possible futures. With specialist electromagnetic microphones one can uncover communication channels invisible to our naked eye and contextualise them for the ear. This composition is made up of electronic communication signals, static, hisses and pulses. Inaudible without specialist tools they still subconsciously channel our behaviour a daily basis nonetheless.

The electromagnetic microphone is such an instrument, with a range far beyond your old portable next to your boombox biii bi-bi-bip biii bi-bi-bip biii bi-bi-bip but you’ve got to admit it’s a classic funky signal. The world out there is messy, noisy. The tools we call instruments function like knives. They slice that thing humans call reality into discreet and limited shapes. Instruments allow us to filter out the parts we don’t want to attend to while giving us the a depth of focus otherwise unattainable for the intricate and deep. Each particular instrument distinguishes itself from another by way of how it slices, by way of how it filters while attending.

This composition consists of 5 groups, each one corresponding to one location in Brussels. It is advised to listen to each piece while one finds themselves at the corresponding location. There is no preferred listening order, these pieces were composed for listening on location. There is no X to mark the spot, use your gut to let it drop. Last thing we want is to control.

Location #1
GALERIE HORTA GALERIJ

Location #2
GALERIE RAVENSTEIN GALERIJ

Location #3
JUSTITIEPALAIS DE JUSTICE

Location #4
PLACE ROGIERPLAATS (sous le disque)

Location #5
RUE ZINNERSTRAAT