Sound and music are in many ways ethereal and, quite literally, float through the air with no environmental impact. But, especially in the electronic music world, the gear that makes sound, transmits sound, records sound, and drives the dance floor does have an environmental impact. What does that mean for a sustainable electronic music scene? Today we talk with Priscilla Haring-Kuipers of This is Not Rocket Science in Amsterdam about all this and more. Together with her husband Stijn, they design, make, sell and perform with modular synthesizers. Her background is in marketing, social sciences, media psychology and game-based-learning. I have had the chance to talk with Priscilla over the years about their company’s approach to sustainability and I’m excited to go deeper with that conversation today.

Bio

Priscilla Haring-Kuipers of This is Not Rocket Science in Amsterdam. Together with my husband Stijn we design, make, sell and perform with modular synthesizers. My background is in marketing, social sciences, media psychology and game-based-learning. Will sing.

Links

TINRS https://www.thisisnotrocketscience.nl/this-is-not-rocket-science/

TINR Sustainability https://www.thisisnotrocketscience.nl/sustainability/

Mastadon https://priscillaharing.info/

Articles at Elektor Magazine https://www.elektormagazine.de/authors/167432/priscilla-haring-kuipers

Vocal pack https://thisisnotrocketscience.bandcamp.com/album/vocal-pack-boom-link-to-zip

Club Synth https://www.thisisnotrocketscience.nl/clubsynth

sustain.fm https://sustain.fm

Contact info@drusnoise.com

Sound is an interesting thing. Sounds can evoke emotions like happiness, anxiety, hope, and calmness. But what I find most interesting is how sound can evoke memories. One of my first memories of sound is my Mum playing the organ at church, laying down on the wooden pew and feeling bass in my whole body. Strong memories of family, connection and childhood – all from sound. In the latest episode of sustain, we are talking with Monica Sand – an artist and researcher based in Stockholm and Gothenburg. Monica has a long history of working with sounds and space. And most recently a project in Gothenburg exploring art, buildings, and human bodies as carriers of cultural memory. Today we chat about sound, memory, art, science, buildings, and bodies.

Bio

Monica Sand, artist and researcher with a PhD in artistic research, from the School of Architecture, KTH, Stockholm. Sand holds a position as Research Adviser at the Artistic Faculty, and affiliated researcher at the Academy of Music and Drama, at Gothenburg University. From 2011 until 2019 she was coordinating research at ArkDes, Stockholm. At KTH and during a postdoc at Konstfack (University College of Arts Crafts andDesign, Stockholm) she produced courses, walk-shops and lectures based on art and artistic research projects with a focus on collective actions in public space. Earlier art work took place in collaborations with different physics laboratories in Sweden and at CERN, the largest particle laboratory in Europe, Geneva: In between art and science and Acting Physics

Links

Playing the Space https://playingthespace.wordpress.com/

Matter Matters – Art, Buildings and Human Bodies as Carriers of Cultural Memory

https://playingthespace.wordpress.com/2023/12/18/en-bage-genom-tiden/

Matter Matters Sound Archive by Louisa Palmi https://palmi.org/The-Sound-Archive

Important message to the public, VMA: https://soundcloud.com/lur_arkdes/sarafranceschi-elegi-short

Forest Improvisations in the Uppsala Cathedral:

https://vimeo.com/55853657

City Experiments with students in an exhibition hall: Färgfabriken

https://vimeo.com/149003424?from=outro-embed

It sounds simple, but what is noise? Is it unwanted sounds? Is it a set of frequencies? Or is it something that is always around us but something we don’t usually notice? Today we talk with Felipe Vareshi about their compositions and performances that give voice to the quietest and most hidden forms of noise pollution that affect us as individuals and as groups coexisting within urban spaces. We talk about sound, noise, listening, and the potentials of sound as a medium for “possible” futures and of the artist as the enabler for these kind of possibilities.

Bio​

Felipe Vareschi is an Experimental Electronic Musician, Performer and Mastering Engineer based in Berlin. Their work explores the way people interact with each other through objects, with a particular focus on the interactions between individuals, technology and nature.

Felipe Vareschi is developing a new musical language where interactions between electronics, sound objects, performers, and installation sites mimic social interactions and human-object networks. Inspired by the physical and imaginary sounds of everyday life, Felipe aims to empower listeners to value and participate in the soundscape around them and embrace the noise of interconnected life.

Links

https://www.felipevareschi.com/

https://www.vareschimastering.com/

https://www.instagram.com/frmvar/

Your host

Steve Williams / drusnoise https://instagram.com/drusnoise

https://sustain.fm