L O G O S M A T E R

A M E L I E D U C H O W

How does a language sound like, beyond the words' meaning? How much does the sound of a language influence us? How does the sound of a language speak to us?

The project LOGOS MATER by Amelie Duchow derives from a deep reflection on these questions. The audio composition of LOGOS MATER takes inspiration from different phonetic and acoustic sound elements associated with the origins and emotional values of the world's languages. Amelie Duchow invites people from all over the world to participate in this project providing a webpage in which every person can record his own voice leaving it to the artists sound analysis and the resulting creative process of manipulation and alteration. https://www.extrasync.net/logosmater/index.html Every sound used in the audio composition derives from the vocal contributions which will confer identity and uniqueness to the development of the live performance. The composition of LOGOS MATER emerges in a global language that does not express itself with words but with sound, seeking to “speak” and connect us at least for a moment by transcending cultural and geographical boundaries. The performance invites the audience to reflect on the significance of languages in shaping our individual and collective identities and on the fact that humanity today is facing a massive extinction: languages are disappearing at an unprecedented pace as over 40% of the world’s approximate 7,000 languages are at risk of disappearing. The webpage remains active throughout the projects presentations and every live of LOGOS MATER will incorporate the latest voice contributions.

For the live performance a specially developed device in form of an equipped world globe permits the artist to control and manipulate the world languages in real time. The voice contributions from all over the world and the ones left a few days before the performance get assigned on this special globe to their respective countries, allowing to create live a deep and eclectic layering of voices that bridges cultures and geography through sound. The composition of LOGOS MATER is among the winners of the open call initiated by Raster for soundtrack Europe 2025. https://europe2025.raster-media.net/inthefield/

L O G O S M A T E R audio/video performance artist : Amelie Duchow concept and music : Amelie Duchow and Marco Monfardini computer system and programming : Gianluca Sibaldi production : sync | EXTRAsync photo : Rachele Salvioli

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AMELIE DUCHOW | bio The german audiovisual artist Amelie Duchow explores in her works the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form. The translation of her creative concepts are driven by the process of sonic and visual experimentation. Her compositions are characterized by the use of subtle multilayered sounds, accentuated by intensive electronic structures and rythms. Amelie Duchow’s live performances unfold a very personal vision of her investigation on the relationship between electronic sound and visual perception. Her debut album TONSTICH has been released in 2014 on Sync, the audio/video live performance of this work is based on the creation of a sonorous dress. In 2018 Resident Advisor featured her in the documentary “ See what I hear ” by Lucy Werrett. The Design Museum London features the live video of her audio/video project TONSTICH in the group exhibition ELECTRONIC From Kraftwerk to the Chemical Brothers in 2020/21. Amelie is a member of the transnational database and network of women working in the realms of electronic music and visual arts Female Pressure. Motivated by the common interest in electronic music and visual art she starts collaborating in 2007 with the italian media artist Marco Monfardini. The duo works under the moniker SCHNITT in the transitional area between music, art and technology focusing with their projects on the coherence between audio and video. Custom-made, innovative software and electronic devices allow SCHNITT to develop complex A/V installations and site-specific live performances. In 2010 they found the platform and label for audiovisual artist Sync on which they release their albums SYNCHROPATH and MEMORY CODE. Their projects have been shown in international museums and festivals as Elektra Festival (CA), LEV Festival (ES), Mutek Montreal (CA), e-phil (DE), Act Festival (KR), Sonica Festival (UK). The duo SCHNITT cofounds in 2018 with the creative coder Gianluca Sibaldi EXTRAsync, interdisciplinary platform developing innovative multimedia projects and electronic devices. SCHNITT presents 2019 at LEV Festival in collaboration with Gianluca Sibaldi the site specific audio/video performance SCANAUDIENCE. The project is based on the realtime scanning of the audience. In WHITE BALANCE, their current a/v performance, the duo creates a relationship between space, image, light and sound by reversing the use and role of audio and video. In 2023 SCHNITT and Gianluca Sibaldi present the large scale audio/video installation SCANSCAPE, this site-specific project is commissioned by the ACC Asia Culture Center, Gwangju South Corea.

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