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Visual Feedback Variations - still. Courtesy of the artist.

By WM September 2, 2024

From the press release:

An exhibition centred on three compositions adopting Eiliyas’s methods of creating sonic improvisations using feedback, reactions and interactions with various media. While the primary medium is sound and will refer mostly to feedback-oriented methods of development, exploration and experimentation - the connection will also pertain to his research topic “The Blues in Technology from the Perspective of Sonic Culture“, using James Baldwin’s sense of the blues, which explores transmissions of the self and states of consciousness/ unconsciousness through the inventions we create, and how these tools can 'extend and amputate human faculty' (McLuhan). The exhibition, in turn, performs itself as it collages different technologies and sounds that compose and decompose throughout the space.

Eiliyas is a Macon born, Atlanta bred, Berlin-based artist working with sound, creative writing and conceptual art. He is also host and curator of Mixtape Menage, a platform for becoming familiar with creators and cultural facilitators of the world through their music collection. In 2023, he founded Black Communion, a space for highlighting Black and POC sound artists and experimental musicians, sharing the experience of Afro-Diaspora by facilitating the connection and collaboration between artists coming from various creative communities, united by sonic activism ranging from composition to improvisation and sound practices. WM