SSS: Unfolds Holos



Time

Subjectivities in the Multiplicity of Relationships between Living and Non-Living Beings











Dreaming
Garabonciás Budapest
Neuropsychological Research on Mind-Wandering and Imagination

Photography by András Szombathy, Gergely Ofner and Lászlo Kőrösi.
In 2022-2023, Syndicate of Sound and Space (SSS) proposed, developed and presented a programme for Transpersonal Experience and Process-Based Research at the Spatial Sound Institute (SSI). SSS invited scientific and artistic practitioners to explore the nature of being through the constantly evolving entity of sound ‘HOLOS‘. A technological framework in which every contributing individual integrates into a larger system of awareness. Sound and space as self-organising container of collective memory. The project was presented as an acoustic ecology driven by organic intelligence, with the aim to enhance collectively embodied and attentive modes of listening throughout all visitors.
The team efforts of SSS resulted in a 24/7 event at art quarter in Budapest (aqb) from the 18th until the 24th of May 2023. An activation of SSS in conversation with HOLOS. Seven days, each day with its own theme of focus:
🟠 18.05.2023; Thursday — Growth; gratitude, prosperity and knowledge.
🟣 19.05.2023; Friday — Creativity; sensitivity, intuition and playfulness.
⚫ 20.05.2023; Saturday — Reflection; organization, power and change.
🟡 21.05.2023; Sunday — Joy; vitality, spirituality and essence.
🔵 22.05.2023; Monday — Rest; emotions, subconscious and cleaning.
🔴 23.05.2023; Tuesday — Body; stimulation, insistence and vigor.
🟢 24.05.2023; Wednesday — Mind; intellect, communication and negotiation.
During the event, a diverse group of local and international artists and researchers co-facilitated a programme to guide visitors through a wide range of live activations, performances, generative installations, interpretations, interactive research, improvisation, process sharing and presentations, collective sleeping, lectures and workshops, fixed media pieces and infusions of composed pieces of the SSI archive into HOLOS.
To officially conclude the explorations of SSS, a text and film has been published that culminates vision and experiences into a larger field of explorations around sound, space and a future consciousness. The online publication envisions a radical paradigm shift from a past material-centred worldview into a future reality with consciousness at its centre. By proposing art and spatial sound as catalysts, the text and overall process places a symbol on the transition from the legacy of the Spatial Sound Institute to research-driven experiments of Syndicate of Sound and Space that led up to the development of HOLOS.
Link Publication: https://syndicateofsoundandspace.com
Production
SSS Team:
Vito Willems Concept, Text and Film
Alexander Nedoboy Organization
Anna Ignatenko Communication
Yan Ayar Guidance
Nilambari Kharade Research
Lynn Hyeong Research
Max ter Reehorst Management
Sveta Maximova Co-Lead Event & Production
Csilla Bartus Organization Event
Bram van Klink Assistance Event
Silke van Wijngaarden Assistance Event
Artem Reshetov Web Development
Nastya Dudina Web Design
Máté Elad Janky Visual Communication
Jano Borsos Logo Design
András Szombathy Lead Photography Event
Gergely Ofner Photography Event
Lászlo Kőrösi Photography Event
Event Partners:
4DSOUND Spatial Sound Software
SSI Loudspeaker system
LOM Microphone system
Limelight Art Light System
art quarter budapest (aqb) Venue
Special gratitude to Paul Oomen, the Spatial Sound Institute (SSI) and their community for the trust in the project. Anatoli Izma, Erik Kolbenheyer, Filip Czaja, Moru Xu, Nicolas Fellas, Paul Oomen, Sanna Bo, Wolfgang Bartesch and Team aqb for co-facilitating the event. And extra gratitude to Carsten Seiffarth, Marcel Wierckx, Paul Oomen, Rogier Willems, Rombout Willems and Sibi Abhimanue for proofreading the text.
Programme
Spatial Sound Experience:
Aliaksandra Yakobouskaya pres. Fluidity of Dreams: Experiments on Collective Dreaming
Aloïs Yang pres. here[]now
Alvin Lucier & the Ever Present Orchestra pres. Berlin Memory Space
Assula pres. Swan Song Sound System
Aykuo pres. Ije. Buor. Salgɯn
Barnabás Tóth & Kristóf Kófiás & Sanna Bo pres. Pendulums (Curated by PAIKKA)
Bíborka Béres & Fausto Mercier & Matyi Szőnyei pres. Protection
Boris Hegenbart pres. the NoDimension [d]
Boris Vitazek pres. In Case of the Moon Disaster
Diane Barbé pres. Ode to a Sunrise I cannot see (from a Cave)
Fausto Mercier pres. Untitled (Curated by EXILES)
Jonas Hammerer pres. Untitled
Katarina Kadijevic pres. Poem Score
Luis Sanz pres. Flexum
Mariano Rosales pres. Factory of Air
Naud Borgelink & Silke Fenna pres. Symbiotic Exchange
Nick Safe pres. Untitled
Nico Daleman & Shama Rahman pres. Brain.wav
Nico Daleman pres. Empathic Entanglements
Nicolas Fellas pres. Sleepers
Prell pres. Untitled
Rodrigo Guzman & Viktor Vicsek pres. Untitled
Ruben Bass pres. Publica - Holos Connect
Shama Rahman pres. ReSound
Visions of Lizard & ABDX pres. Dissociation in Four Parts
yibai pres. RUE (Curated by Exiles)
Zétény Nagy pres. Alloy River
ZSÜJA pres. Untitled (Curated by EXILES)
Lectures and Workshops:
Alexander Nedoboy pres. Astrology in the 21st Century: Ancient System in Modern Time + Empowering the Group Mind: Introduction to Egregores, the Collective Spirits
Liila Taruffi pres. Exploring Consciousness with Music: Perspectives from Neuropsychological Research on Mind-Wandering and Imagination
Lynn Hyeong pres. Ethico Aesthetic for Producing Plural and Polyphonic Subjectivities in the Multiplicity of Relationships between Living and Non-Living Beings
Mariano Rosales pres. Reconsidering Tapes
Nicolas Fellas pres. Sonification of Space: DIY Contact Microphones
Paul Smid pres. The Group as a Container of Emotional Healing
SSS pres. An Introduction to Holos and SSS for Students of the University of Pécs (PTE) and High School Garabonciás Budapest
Archive Infusions curated by Paul Oomen, Founder of SSI:
Alexander Köppel pres. Collage Memory
Daniela Gentile pres. Listening as an Eco-Political Form of Resistance
Edgard Varèse & Paul Oomen pres. Poème Électronique
Fraction & Iannis Xenakis pres. Persepolis
Hanno Leichtmann pres. OFFSET
IOANN pres. Imagining the Hyperspace
John Connell pres. NOQTURNL
Kate De Lorme pres. Sta/g-mos
Maxime Gordon pres. Physique I & II
Michelle Lewis-King pres. A Sonic Investigation Across Bodies, Cultures and Technologies
Pierre Jolivet pres. Mémétique Élucubrations
Svetlana Maraš pres. Two Kinetic Studies
Tiernan Cross pres. Schema
Installations:
Csilla Bartus pres. flat/3d/
Kontur Balász pres. Oscillation
SSS pres. Materia Oscura