JASMINE GUFFOND

MARCH - MICROPHONE PERMISSION, Editions MEGO

Boomkat Review - "Paranoid in tone and elusively spectral by nature, ‘Microphone Permission’ evokes its subject in a mix of quizzical ambient sound design and mutated techno pulses that furtively get under the listener’s skin. As one might hope from experiencing Jasmine’s acclaimed solo albums, ‘Yellow Bell’ (2015), ‘Traced’ (2017), and ‘Degradation Loops’ (2018), the sound of her new LP is also incredibly detailed and once again lures us into a hypnagogic state where her ideas about contemporary life’s liminal but ubiquitous aspects can better take hold."

15 FEBRUARY - Opening of Zorka Wollny's retrospective at TRAFO, Stettin

Includes a couple of our collaborations - Overtone Hive and The Birds.

12 FEBRUARY - Longform Editions Release - CURRENT HARMONICS

Current Harmonics was initially a 28 channel composition and site specific sound installation for Reservoir electronic arts festival. Located at the Linachtalsperre dam in the black forest, this hydroelectric power station was built between 1922 and 1925 in the industrial region of Baden-Würtemberg. I composed a piece in MaxMSP using the frequencies generated by the current harmonics of electricity. The fundamental frequency for Germany being 60 hertz, current harmonics are positive multiples of the fundamental frequency, just like the functioning of harmonics for sound waves.

25 & 26 JANUARY - CTM Opening Concert

Live visuals by ilan katin

2019

LISTENING BACK ADD-ON for Firefox

Translates cookies into sound as you browse online thereby exposing real-time digital surveillance and consequently the ways in which our everyday relationships to being surveilled have become normalised.

TAZ Interview, November 2019

CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNAL, 2019

Zorka Wollny invited me to collaborate on a 30 channel sound installation at the abandoned Overton Elementary School in Bronzeville, Chicago.

VENICE BIENNALE, 2019

Composed sound for Shulea Cheang's Installation 3x3x6 at the Taiwanese Pavilion.

Held off site at the Prison Palace, renowned for the incaceration of Casanova, Cheang's work traces the transformation of confinement and surveillance technologies within digital culture.

AUGUST - SLOW ROTATION, KNULP, SYDNEY

Sound installation for group show SPRING 1848 curated by Scott Donovan.
2 Channel 15min Audio Loop, Ceiling Speaker, Subwoofer, Amps
With the aim to topple monarchies, the European revolutions of 1848 began in France and spread to over fifty countries without notable coordination or cooperation amoung respective revolutionaries. Fast forward to the present and contemporary US political scientist Erica Chenoweth's theory suggests that it takes just 3.5% of a population in sustained non violent protest to topple a government. What is the tipping point of a revolution? And how to represent that moment when a critical mass aligns to topple established power through sound in a gallery space?

JULY - CURRENT HARMONICS, Reservior Festival

Site specific sound installation for Reservoir Festival at the Linachtalsperre Dam in the Black Forest

MARCH - Audio Foundation RESIDENCY / EXHIBITION, Auckland, Aotearoa

Sonic Profiles sonifies the meta-data from the Twitter accounts of well-known public entities: Donald Trump, Narendra Modi, Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, YouTube, CNN and the BBC. By translating Twitter data into sound in real time, this multi-channel composition questions what it means, via the logic of data extraction, to be reduced to streams of data. By abstracting human bodies into data flows, online surveillance networks create profiles of the subjects of such surveillance – our data doubles. Considering the extent to which we watch each other via social media, personal identity becomes a commodity and our humanness itself is increasingly defined by our data-selves. Within a culture of permanent online connectivity, who are we to these ubiquitous algorithms and the data broker industry who programs them?

JANUARY - Q-o2 RESIDENCY, Brussels

During this residency I began recording musical pieces with my custom made Chrome browser add-on, Listening Back. Listening Back is an add-on for the Chrome browser that sonifies Internet cookies in real time as one browses online, thereby providing an audible presence for hidden infrastructures that collect personal and identifying data.

JANUARY - THE WIRE, Interview

2018

NOVEMBER 22 & 23 - EAVESDROP FESTIVAL, Berlin

Sound Installation, Dear Voyeur, meet Flaneur....Sincerely, Social Media Photo by Noshe

OCTOBER 26th - DEGRADATION LOOPS, 12inch & Digital Release on Karlrecords

This project began as a 16 day composition for a group show at 55 Sydenham Rd Marrickville NSW 2204 AU (R.I.P). Here is a limited edition vinyl version on Karlrecords. Artwork by Katherina Pling.

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OCTOBER 26th - SOUND AND STONE compilation

What sound does a stone make? Earlier this year I was invited to make a remix from a library of sounds of stones. I was fascinated to find out about the Feßmann family legacy and dedication to extracting sound from stones. All materials contain resonant frequencies which often go unheard but in this case they have made the stones sing!

SEPTEMBER 27th - DEGRADTION LOOPS sound installation.

MUSE RUOLE, TRANSART Festival, Bolzano, Italy. Curated by Valeria Merlini

AUGUST 2nd & 11th - IAN POTTER MUSEUM of ART, Melbourne University & UNSW Galleries, Sydney

Lecture Performance, The Web Never Forgets with the Browser Duo and the custom made browser add-on Listening Back for Liquid Architecture / Eavesdropping Public Program

forrest from Jasmine Guffond on Vimeo.

JUNE 28th - CENTRO ANDALUZ DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO. Cordoba, Spain

Live Performance. Visuals by Ilan Katin

JUNE 22nd - HANGAR, Barcelona

Performance with the Browser Ensemble utilising the custom made browser add-on Listening Back

APRIL 19th - JUNE 10th - SONIC PROFILES at MAMA, Albury, N.S.W, Australia

Sound Installation, as part of The Watched Exhibition at Murray Art Museum Albury.

The Watched group exhibition considers the impact of contemporary forms of surveillance on daily life and Sonic Profiles reflects on the extent to which we watch each other via social media platforms.
Sonic Profiles sonifies the meta-data from the twitter accounts of well-known public entities. By translating twitter meta-data into sound in real time, the work questions what it means, via the logic of data extraction, to be reduced to streams of data. Contemporary surveillance is often digital and therefore invisible, taking the form of online computer tracking. Behind the graphical interface of the Web browser automated data capture networks rather than 'watch', collect our data. Is the notion of 'watching over' helpful or misleading in regards to contemporary modes of online monitoring that have shifted from a visceral seeing to a logic of automated data extraction? Does this shift in modes of surveillance particular to online monitoring cultures give agency to sound as a method of investigation and mode of representation?

NOV 16th & 17th - EAVESDROP FESTIVAL, Berlin

Festival Curation and Performance with the Browser Ensemble

EAVESDROP presents outstanding Berlin-based and international examples of contemporary electronic music that are abstract, experimental and emotionally affecting.

EAVESDROP speaks to our contemporary sonic environments whether natural, architectural or virtual. The festival challenges and invites listeners to consider, from multiple perspectives, new social and technical developments in international music culture. It explores how digital and online cultures have fundamentally altered how we perceive and experience both music and hte world.

OCT 28th & 29th - AUDIBLE DATA STREAMS SONIFICATION FESTIVAL, Villa Elizabeth, Berlin

Oct 28th - LISTENING BACK & FROM CLOUD TO FOG - live performance of sonification works, with Andrea Belfi, Jeremy Coubrough, Jessica Ekomane & Eliza Goldox, Holger Heissmeyer
Oct 29th - Panal Discussion, Sonification-Interfaces as Instrument

OCT 19th & 20th - MACAO, Milan & RAUM, Bologna

Live Performances in Italy

SEPT 22nd - 29th - SONIC WALKER

If the City Could Speak, Melbourne - Public Sound Work

What does it mean to have our daily footsteps counted in the urban terrain of a ‘smart city’?
The City of Melbourne’s 24-hour pedestrian counting system measures the daily activity of pedestrians. Updated hourly, the data captured by thirty-five of the forty sensors installed around Melbourne’s CBD is sonified in real time and played back over the Signal 24 channel sound system.

SEPT 23rd - SOFT CENTRE FESTIVAL

Casula Powerhouse, Sydney - live performance

JULY - NEW ALBUM TRACED on Sonic Pieces

Boomkat review for my new album - In Traced, Guffond takes the textural and spatially sensitive ambient aesthetics of her previous LP, the acclaimed Yellow Bell, into palpably more paranoid and unnerving headspaces, using her filigree appreciation of electro-acoustic dynamics to convey that feeling with a subtlety which will surely resonate with anyone aware of digital surveillance technology’s transition from peripheral creep to a near ubiquitous presence.

JULY 8th - HEROINES OF SOUND FESTIVAL

Radial System Berlin. Live Visuals by Ilan Katin

Photo by Udo Siegfriedt

JUNE - On tour in Sydney and Melbourne with Jessica Ekomane and Silje Nes.

Installing Composition for Wi-Fi, GPS, Architecture and People at First Draft, Sydney

JUNE - UNTOLD STORIES group show at First Draft Sydney with Jessica Ekomane and Silje Nes

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MAY 10th - BROWSER DUO live performance at Black Box, UNSWAD, Sydney. Sonifying internet tracking cookies in real time with the Listening Back Chrome Browser Extension.

APRIL - THE WEB NEVER FORGETS sound installation

Sydney Non Objective (SNO), Sydney

An immersive sound installation that exposes the proliferation of ubiquitous online surveillance via the real time sonification of internet tracking cookies. Named after the computer science term “magic cookie” internet cookies are commonly used for data profiling by advertising, corporations and governments, by placing a small file on the user’s computer. The relative invisibility of digital surveillance, and the proliferation of consumer modes of online surveillance has both intensified and rendered ambivalent our relationships to being surveyed. Sound provides a means for listening back to some of the imperceivable surveillance infrastructures that monitor our habitual online browsing.

APRIL 8th - CEMENTA FESTIVAL, Kandos

Live Performance

JANUARY 21st - The NOW NOW FESTIVAL, Sydney

Live performance

2016

DECEMBER - DEGRADATION LOOPS

55 Sydenham Rd, Marrickville, Gallery, Sydney

A 16 day composition that gradually and completely bit crushes my 2015 Yellow Bell album. A process of sonic destruction unfolds in response to a group show where visual artists Alex Gawronski and Jelena Telecki destroy and reassemble their work, to create new work, and question the dominance of commercial imperatives within art.

NOVEMBER - Jasmine Guffond / Plurals split release on Beartown Records.

A limited edition CDR release of live concert recordings in Istanbul and Berlin.

26th NOVEMBER - GLITCH FESTIVAL, León, Mexico Live Visuals by Ilan Katin

AUGUST - UNTOLD STORIES, Quiet Cue, Berlin

Composition for WiFi, GPS, Architecture, Furniture and People, explores sound as a method of socio-political investigation. Working with the properties of sound as a vibrational force WiFi and GPS networks are sonified into sub-frequencies specifically tuned to the room, thereby causing architecture and furniture to vibrate. By translating humanly imperceptible networks into the medium of sonic vibration, we are reminded that every object and every being, contains resonate frequencies that can be activated through sound.

Simultaneously used for global communication and surveillance, WiFi and GPS infrastructures inform our everyday experience by expanding our urban boundaries to the geopolitical and information channels of the world. Providing an audible presence for these otherwise intangible infrastructures allows for a direct sensory experience that encourages listening as a mode of examination.

16th JUNE - FILTER V, SPEKTRUM, Berlin

An initiative of ZONA DYNAMIC, the FILTER - Sound Art Series is an edition of temporary collaborations between 2-3 artists focusing on conceptual, context-reflective artworks that intervene in temporary spaces.

FILTER V is an experiment dealing with the power dynamics inherent to surveillance states across both physical and digital domains. Focusing on the intangibility of monitoring and capture infrastructures embedded within the networks we connect to and communicate with everyday - how does this affect collective movement?

Realised as a participative performance and sound installation in collaboration with Liat Berdugo, Eliza Goldox and Holger Heissmeyer. In the guise of aerobic instructions, collective movement is tracked and the body is used as a point of analysis. Liat Berdugo's Unpatentable Multitouch Aerobics incorporates everyday gestures such as zooming, swiping and flicking, that our technological devices have taught us to do, commenting on the corporate reach into our homes, psyches and bodies. The captured data is translated into sonic rhythms, enabling a listening mode of examination and creating an ongoing ritual and soundscape.

14th MARCH - Ambush Gallery, Sydney

Panel discussion with Gudrun Gut, Brooke Olsen, Gail Priest about visibility of women in music and the arts. Hosted by the Goethe Institute.

25th January - Intangible Threat, a showcase by class Sound, Art and Technology-poiesis, UdK. Transmediale/CTM Vorspiel 2016 festival, Berlin

“Sound, Art and Technology-poiesis” is an artistic praxis course at UNI.K – Studio for Sound Art and Sound Research, Faculty of Music, Berlin University of the Arts. Led by Daisuke Ishida and sound artist Jasmine Guffond during the winter semester 2015/2016. Participants were encouraged to create a work investigating contemporary personal, social and political issues with a special focus on the intangibility of surveillance in the digital domain, through the use of the similarly ephemeral medium of sound.

2015

Interview with Stray Landings about music and recent projects.