Sonic Portals

Sonic Portals

The digital environment can hardly be perceived as a unified space, it is a rather complex ecosystem of human and non-human agents. Networks are hierarchical and centralised, non-free with stoppages, dark spots, closures, and its own forms of control. The digital is a space that connects, morphs massive virtual (are they really?) distances, different bodies, and data.

Sonic Portals is a speculative digital environment, a matrix that presents sonic possible worlds made by students of HSE Art and Design School. Portals, having several meanings, can be perceived as an architectural entrance, a web-based platform, connecting different sources, a passage to a different world. In Sonic Portals we play with various meanings and create a complex aural environment. The project in a way is an escape from the familiar perception of virtual space where the focus is on the visual. Sonic Portals is a digital environment where sound becomes the main agent offering a possibility to create decentralised and fluid digital space. Each listener gets their own experience drifting through multichannel compositions, navigating through different portals.

Works

• Maria Karpovich, Olga Zubova, Leonid Kurashov — re-nature
• Alexander Senko — Secret Transmissions
• STEVE ROCKET - KANKURANG
• Ivan Kalashnik — Traps, Tricks and Deseases
• Gleb Yakushev — DataFlow 
• Simona — water area 
• Eva Reicher – 3132
• Ekaterina Volkova, Olga Zubova, Vladislav Generalov — Strategies of Silence

Graphics, Programming

• Lana Tarvolaria
• Gleb Yakushev