On Sworld: Report and reflections on an artistic research into how audio can evoke human experiences of absence, ghosts and lost memories, explored through performance and composed walks

Alexander Holm

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Alexander Holm have been developing the artistic research project 'Sworld' on the APD program at RMC in Copenhagen 2021-2024. The project seeks to explore how simultaneous experience of sounds with- and without a visible cause can evoke human experiences of ghosts, absence and lost memories. The project researches and expands on composer and theorist Michel Chion's audio visual concept of Synch Points, examined through a versatile compositional praxis including choreography, text, voice, walks and live performance.

type	research exposition
keywords	ghosts, dreams, walking, composing, performance, walking practice, Theory, applied research, acoustic ecology, Feminist Theory, sound studies, Sound Design, Choreography, electronic music, story telling, art, RMC alumni, Quantum physics, indeterminacy, time, memory, memories, spirituality, spirit photography, spirit, sound, sound art, void, nothingness, empty space, recording, recordings, emptiness, Buddhism, Fluxus, technology, expanded cinema, Film studies, absence, absences, Reality, research, choreography and performance, landscape, sound walk, improvisation, dance, text, voice, voice studies, graphic scores, score-based writing
date	28/06/2024
published	22/04/2025
last modified	22/04/2025
status	published
affiliation	Ernst Karel, Lucresia Dalt, Marie Koldkjær Højlund, Rune Søchting, Lotte Anker & Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard
copyright	Sensorisk Verden
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2914114/2914115
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/rmc.2914114
published in	Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen
portal issue	0. Published Research by Advanced Postgraduate Diploma students
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