Jens Nordmann and Ian Warner’s and research is based on a semantic approach to field-recordings. The performative reorganisation, decay and deformation of “sound-objects” is concerned with the sense and implication of the source material, but also with the loss of their physical point-of-reference. This is flanked by an ongoing flirt with the assumed authenticity of folkloristic instruments and their juxtaposition to the synthetic.

Both strategies are focused on dismantlement rather than composition and strive for an almost nature-identical level of ambivalence.

Ian Warner (born 1974), communication designer and writer. Co-owner of the Berlin design studio State, who create visual identities, websites and campaigns for clients in the cultural sector, such as the Rundfunkchor and the Komische Oper in Berlin. His writings appear regularly in the online architectural journal Slab-Mag, and as a translator he has collaborated with authors on publications for the HKW Berlin and the Documenta.

Jens Nordmann (born 1973), multidisciplinary artist (painting, objects, performance) exploring acoustic and visual impact of everyday objects focussing on the process of their utilization. Looking for the happy-end in an infinite cultural process of shaping. 

Part of the transmediale/CTM Vorspiel 2016 festival