Parallel 06: Ioana Vreme Moser

The Parallels series returns in spring 2024 with guest artist Ioana Vreme Moser, a Berlin-based, Romanian sound artist engaged with hardware electronics, speculative research, and tactile experimentation.

In her practice, she uses rough electronic processes to obtain different materialities of sound. She places electronic components and control voltages in different situations of interaction with her body, organic materials, lost and found items, and environmental stimuli. From these collisions, synthesized sounds emerge to carry personal narrations and observations on the history of electronics, their production chains, wastelands, and entanglements in the natural world. 

On March 16 Ioana Vreme Moser will present Screaming Minerals, a sonic lecture-performance that follows the rise of information technologies and their environmental decay. As algorithms become intelligent exponentially, the project delves into their transistorised hardware bodies their materialities, entangled politics, fragility and toxicity. This lecture-performance is enhanced by a collaborative installment-style performance featuring participants from Sizzling Semiconductors, a 3-day workshop taking place in advance of the concert.

Extending the Sizzling Semiconductors workshop, Screaming Minerals enacts an improvisation part with instruments from ‘transistors’ made of waste, collectively forming an orchestra. Noises and tones emerge as radiosensitive stones and pieces of scrap metal are scratched with needles. Oscillation occurs at a precise touch of a burned spot rendering the instruments in highly impredictable sonic landscapes.

Doors: 7pm
Artist talk: 7:15pm
Performance: 8pm

PARALLELS is a workshop-performance series curated by VNM that brings acclaimed local, national and internationally based artists together with local musicians to create unique, collaborative performances. Previous editions of the series have included – Parallel 01: Uri Caine + Ensemble, Parallel 02: Okkyung Lee + ensemble, Parallel 03: Endlings + collaborators, Parallel 04: UNION Immersed and Parallel 05: Erin Gee.