Raviv Ganchrow

°1972
affiliation: Institute of Sonology, University of the Arts, The Hague
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Raviv Ganchrow’s work researches the interdependencies between sound, place, and listening, aspects of which are explored through installations, writing, and the development of pressure-forming and vibration-sensing technologies. Recent installations examine context-dependent sites of contemporary listening relating to environmental infrasound (Long-Wave Synthesis), mineral piezoelectricity (Quarzbrecciakammer), materiality of radio transmission (Radio Plays Itself & Forecast for Shipping), and anechoic chambers (work in progress). His ongoing Listening Subjects project tests an ambient circuitry whereby audibility, surroundings, and subjectivity are mutually conductive. He has been teaching architectural design in the graduate program at TU Delft and is currently a faculty member at the Institute of Sonology, University of the Arts, The Hague.

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  • Sounds of Broadcast (last edited: 2017) author(s): Raviv Ganchrow connected to: KC Research Portal This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    Sounds of Broadcast is a trans-disciplinary, context-dependent, research incorporating elements of investigative inquiry, theoretical reflection, artistic production and empirical experimentation. This research examines radio as a critical site in the historicity of hearing and explores the ways in which auditory patterns and techniques enact radio's transducer-dependent contexts.
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  • Hearing Geoelectric (last edited: 2023) author(s): Raviv Ganchrow connected to: KC Research Portal This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    Geological minerals (such as copper, quartz and mica) are embedded in audio circuits and conversely geological processes are teeming with electrical activity. Power grids and Integrated circuits could be described as important waypoints in the domestication of lightning. Advanced methods of geo-sensing and globally coordinated sensor networks are currently plumbing Earth attributes by way of its signals: By way of electrical transduction (vibrations converted into electrical fluctuations) or by directly tapping into ground conductivity (telluric current monitoring and geoelectrical methods). Our growing awareness of earthly variations in voltage manifest a complex intertwining of the geologic, the electric and the technic. What are the terrestrial contexts of audio circuits and conversely what electrical circuitry is at work in geology? What does Earth's circuitry sound like? How can such geoelectric hearing redress the binaries of 'natural' and 'technical' in particular with respect to recordings overt mimetic properties? This research aims to develop non-standard tools for environmental voltage acquisition while looking into historical contexts of geoelectrical methods as a means of bridging the geological dimensions in electronic audio towards contemporary modes of environmental listening and hearing.
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