What sounds remain if we listen? How can we “hold space” for our own listening in spaces of absence, loss and separation?
The project Folding Loop is an audio spatial composition exploring the persistence and fragility of sound and memory within architectures of absence. What is to be sustained and how can we practice sustained listening?
Emerging at the intersection of performance and installation the project invites the audience to traverse a fragile acoustic ecosystem where found objects, field recordings, transducers, contact microphones and human bodies interconnect, creating a third space. The material of the piece is a collection of empty spaces both private and public that develop a dialogue, a systolic diastolic folding – unfolding, creating an origami cosmos. To hear what is no more one should listen to the afterlives of sound—how vibrations persist beyond their audible form.
Loops here operate as micro-archives: fragile containers that hold sonic memory even as they erode. In this oscillation, the work foregrounds the politics of disappearance, what is preserved, what is forgotten, and how sustained listening can become an active practice of holding space for the immaterial.
Between the ephemeral and the recorded, between what fades and what remains, what is silent and what is heard always remember to Listen to traces of absence in the present.
