Ground (2012 - 2014)

Ground is an audio-visual performance in which graphite drawings are used to direct sound. Graphite as a conductor of electricity. Through its varying resistance, the graphite modulates the pitch, amplitude and timbre of the sound generators that are stoked with charcoal. Ground offers a range of possibilities in which auditory and visual elements are bound together. The notion of live electronic music is made explicit. The artists Jeroen Uyttendaele and Dewi de Vree draw and play the drawings in a new version of this performance.

Jeroen Uyttendaele is an artist working with sound in relation to material, light, space, time and the viewer. This translates itself into the development of audio-visual instruments, installations and sound compositions. Uyttendaele often employs basic properties from technology, such as electricity, metal and conductive materials. Uyttendaele studied ArtScience at The Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.

Dewi de Vree is a media artist whose work is based upon the sensual experience of physical experiments. With a background in visual arts, she started to research the relationship between image and sound. She developed different graphical scores, sound performances and installations. Her interest in the interaction between man and machine has led to a number of ‘translation-machines’ and sound-interfaces. She’s currently engaged with a research into electromagnetism and the development of an instrument that can transform electromagnetic fields into sound. She studied in the audio-visual department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, and the ArtScience Interfaculty at The Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.