saturday 13 april – 11 pm


Pinacoteca di Bologna – Salone degli Incamminati

Stine Janvin (N/D)

Fake Synthetic Music

sound performance

Fake Synthetic Music is a live performance for voice, echo, lights and spatial distribution conceived by Stine Janvin, sound artist who works with the extensive flexibility of her voice and the ways in which it can be disconnected from its natural, human connotations. The backbone of Janvin’s projects focus on the physical aspects of sound, vocal instrumentation and potential dualities of the natural versus artificial, organic/synthetic, and minimal/dramatic. Janvin’s sound performance is an ongoing exploration of her Fake Synthetic Music concept, recently materialised as a double LP on PAN records. Presenting a piece for voice and lights developed in collaboration with Morten Joh, she aims to trigger a full-body physical and ambient experience built from the frequency range of her acoustic voice. Using only her vocal archive, inspired by past and present producers of architectural electronic music, Janvin offers a new take on ‘deconstructed rave’ by exploring both sonic and optical illusions, otoacoustic emissions and minimal melodic sequences in reference to pop, techno and trance.

Stine Janvin Motland is a vocalist, performer and sound artist from Stavanger, Norway. Working with extended vocal techniques, she explores and pushes the frontiers of the natural acoustics of the voice. She composes using sound collages from different genres, languages and traditions. In addition to her own solo work (experimental music projects and installations), she also collaborates and performs with a number of adventurous composers and improvising musicians, as well as taking part in art, dance and theatre projects around the world with artists such as Ula Sickle, Adam Linder and Holly Herndon. Janvin is also performing regularly with duo project Native Instrument (Shelter Press, Entr’acte) and her alter ego ST/NE (Laura Lies In). As an interpreter, she is a member of the Holly Herndon Ensemble, and performs contemporary music as a soprano with vocal ensemble Song Circus and in collaboration with composers such as Catherine Lamb, Maja S.K Ratkje and Øyvind Mælan.

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voice Stine Janvin Motland
lights Morten Joh