Sound Installation by Rubén D'Hers
July 8th - 9th 2019
In collaboration with the Arctic Chamber Music Festival, Artica Svalbard are proud to present a new sound installation by Venezuelan, Berlin based musician and sound artist Rubén D'Hers.
The piece was exhibited in the Artica Svalbard workshop over two days during the music festival.
An artists talk with D’Hers hosted by Artica director Eli Skatvedt was held on Sunday June 9th and was live-streamed on our social media channels. A recording of which can be watched here:
Rubén D'Hers
Acoustic guitars, zithers, piano strings, black cable, stones, hanging motors, pliers, waving cords, bird feathers, cages & refrigerators parts are some of the elements he uses to create sound works at the intersection between music and sound installation.
Through acoustic means, he produces chord based compositions that once installed in space operate from the notion of verticality, the static and the non-narrative, to focus on spatiality. His recent work approaches the ubiquitous, stationary and imperceptible character of sounds from interior spaces related to ventilation, cooling & heating systems, both to unveil their potential as found musical material and enquire into the representational qualities of sound produced by acoustic means.
Rubén D'Hers' work has been exhibited and performed at venues like Funkhaus Berlin, Interstice - Rencontres des Inclassables (FR) Klangraum Krems (AT), Heart of Noise Festival and Donau Festival (AT), Le Bon Accueill (FR), The Empty Gallery (HK), City Sonic Sound Art Festival (BE), Kunsthaus Bregenz (AT), Kontejner (HR), Netwerk Center for Contemporary Arts (BE), Oficina #1 (VE), ZKM Karlsruhe (DE), Neues Museum Weimar (DE), SeaM Weimar (DE) & LAB 30 (DE).
He holds an MFA in Sound Studies at the Berlin University of Arts, a BFA in Media Art & Design at the Bauhaus University Weimar.