Sarah Brown and Valentina Vuksic

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Sarah Brown

A video artist and performer, Sarah Brown has been exploring video media since 1996 via analogue and computer-based devices. She began her work within the free party scene, where she initiated the search for a language that links images and sounds. She has collaborated with many artists and dance and theatre companies (Cie Vent de Sable, Fabienne Gotusso, and Hey! La Cie) and since 2015 has been part of the radio collective ∏ Node, for whom she conceives participatory sound performances and produces various programs.

https://www.enreportagepermanent.com/sarahbrown

 

Valentina Vuksic

As artist researcher, Valentina Vuksic is engaged with sonic-cyber entanglements through surveillance practices. She has a background in computer science as well as experimental media art and has been performing with audified soft- and hardware since 2007. She is doing a PhD in Musical Composition at the University of Birmingham in collaboration with the Institute for Contemporary Art Research at Zurich University of the Arts. She is a member of the artist collective π-node.

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  • ANTIVIRUS !Make some domestic noise! on ∏ Node Part I (2021) author(s): Sarah Brown and Valentina Vuksic, Valentina Vuksic published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
    Stream your domestic appliances on p-node.org: fridge, washing machine, vacuum cleaner, coffee machine, etc. You can also use gardening tools. I’ll mix them and re-stream the mix on ANTIVIRUS. (As you know, we can easily mix different streams on the p-node website by changing the volume levels and streaming the mix at the end.)
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  • ANTIVIRUS !Make some domestic noise! on ∏ Node Part II (2021) author(s): Sarah Brown and Valentina Vuksic, Valentina Vuksic published in: Journal of Sonic Studies
    !Make Some Domestic Noise! was a series of collective online performances that took place during the first COVID-19 lockdown. They featured what might be described as an online domestic noise big band. As everyone was isolated at home, the ∏ Node collective launched the Antivirus program to train people on how to join and contribute their own stream and sounds. Being alone at home can be stressful, but it can also reveal the beauty of everyday noises. On a weekly basis, people were invited by email to participate by playing with the noises of their domestic appliances and live stream the results. These separate audio streams were then mixed in real time and sent to the main output stream. This was enabled by the ∏ Node site structure, which provides a volume control for every active stream. The website also has an Internet Relay Chat through which participants can, and did, directly interact.
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