Pablo Diserens is an artist, field recordist, composer, filmmaker and photographer based in Berlin (Germany) who engages with various topo- and phonographies with a wide range of visual and sonic recording techniques. Their work brings the bio- and geological features of the explored environments to the foreground by blending a rich variety of located sounds with texts, analog photographs and video within site-specific gestures, installations, live performances, exhibitions and releases. Diserens composes sonic environments and electroacoustic sound pieces by fusing and altering an array of field recordings, found objects and self-made instruments.
These play with the listeners’ acoustic memory to create new sonic combinations and associations until new landscapes emerge. Through their various practices embedded in sonic ecology and acousmatic forms, Diserens draws attention to fragile biomes, unheard or unseen minutiae and the [political] act of listening with the aim of sparking ecological awareness.
Pablo Diserens is also the co-founder/curator of forms of minutiae, a publishing platform that supports a plurality of projects in the field of electroacoustic music, phonography, acoustic ecology and visual art.
Member of CENSE (Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies) since 2021.
Pablo Diserens is also the co-founder/curator of forms of minutiae, a publishing platform that supports a plurality of projects in the field of electroacoustic music, phonography, acoustic ecology and visual art.
Member of CENSE (Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies) since 2021.
SOUND WORKS
2021 tidal dwellers — contribution for the compilation possible moistures [forms of minutiae, digital + PDF]
2020 for scarpa’s fountains [forms of minutiae, vinyl & digital]
2020 intertidal zone - 3rd prize winner of the 60 secondes radio
2020 Be Mine in Patience: an Embrace in B minor - in collaboration with Black Glass Ensemble and 104 musicians [digital]
2020 on australian shores: listening to birds, insects and molluscs [Sono Space, digital]
2019 entering the taroko gorge — contribution for the compilation Sound Maps For The Dreamer III [Sono Space, digital]
2019 Architectonic Soundprint I - in collaboration with Robin Koek [Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee, digital]
ARTWORKS
2021 marbre en mer
PUBLICATIONS
2021 note from the perpetual dusk — (audiotextual piece) [Aber Press]
2021 glacial meanders [self-published]
CURATION
since 2020 • co-founder and co-curator of the publishing platform forms of minutiae and all related events
2020 • rising whisper — concerts series in the courtyard of ACUD MACHT NEU (june —september 2020)
since 2015 • founder and co-curator of the independent record label ygam
EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2021 glacial meanders — for Violaine Toth’s open studio weekend (group show)
2021 the fly — contribution for the interactive online gallery space: KoKoMo (group show)
2020 at Galerie De Vijf Ramem / 5 Window Gallery, Arnhem (group show)
2020 at Laboratorium Fragilitas, Berlin (group show)
FILMS & VIDEOS
2020 oyster farm (video loop)
2020 mountain slurp (video loop)
2016 Le Cercle (short fiction film, 26 min.) - selected in the Short Film Corner at the Festival de Cannes 2016
2013 Hugin & Munnin (short documentary film, 4 min.)
2013 La Goutte (video loop)
2012 Something is afoot (documentary film commissioned by Paola Yacoub, 16 min.) - part of the Labor 9: Paola Yacoub /
kiss the black stones exhibition at HKW, Berlin
SCORES & SOUNDDESIGN
2020 thum - animation short film by Luca Depardon (sound & score)
2020 Gaza Protokoll - radiophonic work by Maxi Obexer (sound & score) - premiered at Friendly Confrontations festival
2018 Untitled - video pieces by Burkhard von Harder (score)
2017 DÄNZ#4 - dance workshop by Vincent Bozek (score)
GRANTS, RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2021 Alpine sound recordings → Nature / Cirque au Sommet (residency, august)
2020 Stipendium Kulturprojekte Berlin (cultural project grant from Berlin’s Senate)
2020 intertidal zone - 3rd prize winner of the 60 secondes radio
2020 Top 10 Field Recordings & Soundscape Albums of 2020 — a closer listen
2020 Plan B. Artist Studios, Greece (residency, july - august)
2019 MONOM - center for spatial sound, Berlin (residency, june - july)
SOUND PERFORMANCES & CONCERTS (selection)
2021 speaker for TIMEPIECE - MaerzMusik — Festival for Time Issues
2020 Signals Festival - Funkhaus Berlin (solo performance)
2020 rising whisper - ACUD MACHT NEU (solo performance)
2020 The Akousmatik Bush (solo performance)
2019 ACUD MACHT NEU, Berlin ( Morphoscope - group performance with Vida Vojić, Stephan Korntner & Frank Peroni)
EDUCATION
2018 - 2019 Masters Degree in Creative Sound Practice at dBs Berlin
2016 - 2018 Bachelor Degree in Electronic Music Production & Performance at dBs Berlin
2012 - 2015 Bachelor Degree in Cinema/Film at Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis