listening to Sólheimajökull, Iceland (photo by Clément Coudeyre)
Pablo Diserens (they/she ~ b.1994) is a field recordist, musician and artist devoted to non-human realities, attentive listening, and possible forms of interspecies coexistence. Through an ecologically engaged multidisciplinary creative practice, they investigate diverse biomes and acoustic occurrences with sonic and visual recording techniques. Their work blends sound, music, images, and text to emphasize listening gestures and interconnectedness. Here, sonic ecology, photographic, and electroacoustic forms bring the bio- and geological features of the explored environments to the foreground. By immersing listeners into environmental propositions and (sur)realities, publications, live performances, and installations bear the potential to inspire individuals to shift their perspective and sense of scale while experiencing otherness and alternative forms of being, ultimately making listening a political act. In solidarity with a wounded planet, Diserens’ practice invites people to attune to the present moment in an attempt at rethinking caring strategies and our relationship with the world and its biotic communities.
> Based in Berlin (Germany), Pablo Diserens is also the co-founder/curator of forms of minutiae, a publishing platform for attuning listenings, electroacoustic music, sonic ecology and visual art.
> Member of CENSE (Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies) since 2021.
> Based in Berlin (Germany), Pablo Diserens is also the co-founder/curator of forms of minutiae, a publishing platform for attuning listenings, electroacoustic music, sonic ecology and visual art.
> Member of CENSE (Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies) since 2021.
SOUND WORKS
2022 live at kwia [forms of minutiae, cassette & digital]
2022 a shadow cast on vapours — for the compilation First Rays & A Lasting Echo [Audio Visuals Atmosphere, cassette & digital]
2022 dusk — dawn [Audio Visuals Atmosphere, cassette & digital]
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)
EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2022 alpine gradient shown at Médiathèque Valais - Martigny as part of the exhibition impACT. Quelle est notre empreinte?
2022 on australian shores shown at Museo Reina Sofia as part of Alejandra Riera’s exhibition < Garden of Mixtures: Attempts to Make Place, 1995 -… > — Madrid, ES
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 of 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
2022 Neonyt - Sustainable Fashion events (sound & score in collaboration with Madelyn Byrd)
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)
RESIDENCIES, GRANTS & AWARDS
2023 Arbeitsstipend für Ernste Musik und Klangkunst (working grant for contemporary music and sound art) from Berlin’s Senate
2023 Galería Vilaseco (residency, july - august)
2022/23 TBA21’s Ocean Archive (residency, september → december)
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)
2016 Le Cercle - selected in the Short Film Corner of the Festival de Cannes
PERFORMANCES & CONCERTS (selection)
2022 The Alien Kin - (with Diane Barbé, Mariana Carvalho & Joe Summers) Morphine Raum, Berlin DE (concert)
2022 glacial meanders — une musique alpine - Cirque au Sommet, Crans-Montana CH (concert)
2022 live at kwia release gathering - Kwia Bar, Berlin DE (concert)
2022 Walking with shelled creatures — performance in response to Nadja Bournonville’s exhibition A worm crossed the street — Haus am Kleitspark, Berlin DE (concert)
2022 Hošek Contemporary, Berlin DE (concert)
2022 sentient lands | instants for sonic ecologies - arkaoda, Berlin DE (concert + curation)
2021 WEICH - Kwia Bar, Berlin DE (concert)
2021 RAUSCH (drone night) - backsteinboot, Berlin DE (concert)
2021 speaker for TIMEPIECE - MaerzMusik — Festival for Time Issues
2020 Signals Festival - Funkhaus Berlin, Berlin DE (concert)
2020 rising whisper - ACUD MACHT NEU, Berlin DE (concert)
2020 The Akousmatik Bush, Berlin DE (concert)
2019 ACUD MACHT NEU, Berlin DE ( Morphoscope - group performance with Vida Vojić, Stephan Korntner & Frank Peroni)
WORKSHOPS
2023 briny listenings: field recording & ecoattuning — TBA21’s ocean comm/uni/ty (online)
2022 marine soundscapes and attentive listening — with the kids of the Atelier Bleu, La Ciotat, FR
2021 found objects & self-made instruments as creative and performable tools — Signals Festival, Berlin, DE
FIELD / SOUND RECORDIST & ENGINEER
2022 in preparation of Maxi Obexer’s Mit Tieren project
2022 for Julie Carrère’s dance performance Break the Charm
2022 in preparation of Alain Roche’s Piano Vertical project in the Lusatia region
2021 for Diane Barbé’s & Vilte Gustyte’s long-strings installation for Climate Care Festival (2021) at Floating University.
MIXES & RADIO SHOWS
2022 mix for Post-Geography on NTS
2022 field recording listening session on Cashmere Radio for the Month of Contemporary Music
2022 mix for Slowfoam’s Our Tomorrow series
2022 field recording contribution for CENSE’s show on Punctum Radio
2021 mix for Melantónia series
EDUCATION
2018 - 2019 Masters Degree in Creative Sound Practice at dBs Berlin ~ MA project: A sonic study of hydraulic sceneries with the practice of field recording as a gateway to environmental awareness and electroacoustic composition
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