R E I . Z E N
S E L E C T E D P R O J E C T S
a series of spoken-word works, which is concerned with a
broad spectrum of topics around language and otherness, seeking to re-examine the very essence of some core concepts that shape the contemporary subject at both individual and collective levels: from the identity policy seen through post-colonial lenses to language as technology that forms our culture and ideology, the quest of this work is driven by the search for new perspectives.
The project features poems recorded by artists with different languages and backgrounds, accompanied with electroacoustic devices or processed acousmatically.
an audiovisual project by intermedia artists Snezhana Reizen and Mike Iv, working in the fields of generative visuals and experimental electronic music.
Inheriting a counting system of “Arabian Nights,” Zero Night would be that of an untold story. Zero as one ahistorical, a parallel landscape, or “x,” escaping grids and mappings.
The project dwells upon the ideas of cosmological chaos, the formation of the possible, and the transformation of the “real”, focusing on morphogenesis of audio-visual signals and elements.
an audiovisual set and installation that gives voices to the crises of our time that we experience on so many levels - from ecology and extinction of species to the socio-political tensions and stagnation of the “world which is slow to change”, till the point when it is too late - posing questions through the evocative image of the desert.
Named after the Greek ἐρημος — wilderness, desert — the project constructs its terrain from electrical discharges, magnetic fields, and feedback loops, recorded with piezo sensors and bare wires across multiple improvisational sessions.
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an electroacoustic piece emerging from the raw vibrations of disconnected or partly unplugged wires. Developed through live improvisation and multilayered procession Desert Island channels tension and rupture, resisting a fixed rigid form. By layering constant subtle shifts of time, frequency, and texture it articulates the movement itself - the movement that opens onto interior geographies of perception, forming miniature anarchic constellations of thought.
The seeding point for this work was a war for free will in Ukraine.
Then "deterritorialization" happened..
an audio-visual project that deals with an affective electricity of the war machine. The project started as a response to the Russian aggression against Ukraine in the darkness of 2022, but reflects war in a broader sense, as a phenomenon with varied existential, political, and ecological implications, including questions of what war might mean beyond a specifically human framework.
a sonic work appeared as a part of Eremos series and a precursor for my ongoing research project “U” which is coiling with and around streams of feedback both technically and conceptually.
Inspired by François Laruelle’s mystique-fiction, but not circumscribed by it, Epekeinaphor heads beyond the idea of representation that is built into the system that dominates our culture and communication.
The multimedia interactive performance “Class Fatigue” explores such a symptom of modern society as fatigue.
Following the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard, we see fatigue as a hidden form of protest against the existing social order with its focus on success and productivity, and alienation of individuals bereft of choice.
Technically, the work was built with the open-source electronic prototyping platform Arduino, four video projections revealing the topic of material fatigue from a scientific perspective—diagrams, graphs, images of fractures and cracks, gallium metal pulsing like a human heart—and a spatial four-channel audio installation with the pre-recorded soundscape and sounds, produced by participants during their communication with our mechanisms.
an intermedia beat-disoriented project by sound artists Snezhana Reizen and Michał Krajczok featuring a visual by Mike Iv. The project explores phenomena of affects and affective involvement through various media in improvisational sessions.
Treating affects as movements of autonomic pre-subjective intensities that bring differences even in untimely events or categories such as atmosphere (affect is what the atmosphere provides) we attempt to create a dynamic "cartography of affects" with diverted images and disruptive pulses. Within this project, we elaborate on immeasurable beats and instability patterns, seeking abstract possibilities of/for each (next) moment.
Antenna is a series of works on transduction with the sole sound source taking place - radio waves. Here I was devoured (engulfed) by discontinuity and discharge inherent to the "miracle of the wireless. the omnipresence.. the overleaping of frontiers” - the radio, like it was marked by R. Arnheim.
A spontaneous live radio-noise set recorded close to the closed bomb shelter. Commissioned by Radio Concrete at British Extra Resonance.
“Lost Letter” is an electroacoustic piece, commissioned by Radio Concrete at British Extra Resonance, informed by desperate seeking of connection in disconnection, beauty in noise, and meaning of life full of war. Recorded with noises appearing between partly unplugged or disconnected wires, fertilised with Israeli radio, military helicopters severing the night sky, smithereens of debris and bird’s voices, and various sounds of 'human and not' presence and not.
Silent Thoughts
Silent Thoughts is an interactive performance and exhibition installation designed as an interactive, anti-war installation responding to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. It deeply reflected the emotional trauma, pain, and psychological state of recent expatriates and refugees who had just relocated to Israel. Billed as a "room of horrors turned into everyday life", visitors went through 30-minute individual sessions that combined physical art installations, video materials, and immersive spatial audio.
In silence. Asteroidea.
Music to a multimedia installation by Lia Schell and Anton Kraftsky that contemplates posthuman relationships and extraterrestrial dimensions of the language.
r-selection
r - selection is an multimedia installation by Ilya Davidov and Snezhana Reizen that speculates on the r/K selection theory as a simplified model of population dynamics
PAIN.T
PAIN.T is a theatrical performance that draws on the Dark Night of the Soul, the crisis and rupture within the psyche and expanding subconscious flows through the framework of a cathartic artistic experience.
a beat - disoriented project by sound artist Snezhana Reizen on the verge of the alternative club scene.
Combining analogue signals and digital synthesis, shifting temporal grids and algorithmic schemes Rzeng deals with different kinds of turbulence, tensions, complexities and dilemmas in the field of human experience in relations to non-human.
Maya Pennington & Snezhana Reizen are a duo of sonar adventurers, “sounders of the depths”, dancing on the borders of discovered and imagined.
In their improvisational sessions, they mingle together experimental electroacoustics with postindustrial, jazz with ambient, noise with voice, sob with splash, sonically embodying elements and phenomena from the natural world - all forms of void and matter.
Music for film by Karina Baratova, which recreates, within her film, a setting of an Iranian beach. The word “Zolf”, translated from Farsi, means "lock of hair". It is also the title of the hidden protest song by Mohsen Namjoo, Iran's Dylan on the lute, based on the 14th-century poem by the Persian poet Hafez of Shiraz.
Music for a film by Karina Baratova, which refers to the book “The Woods (Hyle)” by the philosopher Vladimir Bibikhin, in which he describes the forest as a living substance and the person in it. Bibikhin argues that although most of human society no longer lives in forests or close to them, our existence is still profoundly linked to them.
I was passing thirteens
Music for an animation by visual artist Nadia Dikun, unfolding the poem of the same title by the famous Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko. The poem addresses his most sacred and intimate memories from childhood and the first love, free of possession, the bliss he felt as if in God’s hands, and despair about the world full of wars and oppression that ruined this bliss and left him homeless.
an audio album that examines the capacities of natural cycles in a synthetic environment and elaborates on the theme of ice not only as a major threat to humanity in the context of global warming but also as a symbol of stasis with potential for change. It is an atmospheric, polyrhythmically structured canvas with micro-processes integrated within a hyperobject.
an audio album that was recorded fully with analogue synthesisers in order to simulate natural sounds, to create a bridge between immanent and transcendental.
Only descending to Earth, angels gain wings.
an audio album that develops romantic ideas of Percy Bysshe Shelley by means of electronic music played with a very limited analogue equipment.
"Our boat is like an albatross, whose nest is the distant Eden in the crimson East; and we will nestle between its wings, while Day and Night, Hurricane and Calm continue their flight "
an audio album by Rzeng. Being confused by the questions of the phenomenon of consciousness, through multi-layered rhythm calls and phase shifts, the album narrates about the mind that moves in parallel with the whole universe, listening to the stars with such romantic longing as if it were homesickness.
a visual by Mike Iv
An audio album drawing on the themes of distance, alienation of events and feelings from language intended to designate them, self-suspension and self-suspicion in the acts of representations. Through subtle noise pulsations, straying into glitches, and insane polyrhythmic structures, it sublimates internal tension, expanding harmonic dissonances, and moments of transparency and silence amid market noise.
XXXX is an audio album that renders dark industrial shamanism with thorny glitch reign and is arranged as a trip or a journey to the edge of the night. On the way, the arrogant rider of consciousness plunges into sleep, drops the reins, and now the horse of the unconscious chooses its own path in a velvet emptiness.
Please note, these are selected, not all the works.
An enormous amount of gigs, performances, collaborations and installations were not mentioned.
To be continued
“Liberty is becoming”
François Laruelle