{"id":1259,"date":"2023-05-28T11:07:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T11:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicolinastylianou.com\/portfolio\/?page_id=1259"},"modified":"2026-01-08T13:13:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:13:56","slug":"waves-body-and-disturbing-overtones-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicolinastylianou.com\/portfolio\/inflated-liquidities\/waves-body-and-disturbing-overtones-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Waves, Body, and Disturbing Overtones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Waves, Body, and Disturbing Overtones was a multidisciplinary event exploring the relationship between sensory perception, the human body, and technological instruments. The programme examined how sound operates beyond its expected boundaries, emerging as a physical force that can enhance, disturb, or reshape bodily experience. By focusing on the co-dependence between body and technology, the event invited audiences to consider sound as an active, indeterminate presence that produces unfamiliar modes of listening, movement, and perception.

Derek Holzer<\/strong> presented research-based explorations of vintage audiovisual synthesis technologies used in schools, electronic music studios, television, radio, and experimental composition in Sweden during the 1960s and 1970s. His work highlighted historical approaches to electronic sound and image production and their continued relevance today.

Mihalis Shammas<\/strong> explored the relationship between movement and sound through instrument building and live performance. His instrument, Lyraei, uses electromagnetic pulses to activate strings into continuous oscillation, creating sonic states that fluctuate between chaos and order.

Nicolina Stylianou<\/strong> presented Inflated Liquidity, a body-sculpture that investigates music instruments as extensions of the human body. Through wearable sculptural forms and performative interaction, the work examines how machines can function as supplements to bodily anatomy, movement, and sensation, challenging the boundaries between object, body, and sound.

Overall, Waves, Body, and Disturbing Overtones<\/em> invited the participating artists to reflect on how sound can function as a living organism, one that transforms both itself and its environment, producing re-embodied spatial experiences and new ways of engaging with sound, movement, and the visual.

The event took place at the TMS premises and at NIMAC \u2013 Theatro Polis OPAP from 20 to 29 July 2022. The programme included artist talks, workshops, live performances, and an exhibition of Inflated Liquidity, developed during Nicolina Stylianou\u2019s residency and presented in the exhibition space of Thinker Maker Space (TMS).

The event was organised by Nicolina Stylianou in collaboration with Thinker Maker Space<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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