PABLO DISERENS



⏤  for your ears

        dusk — dawn 
        live at kwia

        intertidal zone

        for scarpa’s fountains

        + more


⏤  for your eyes
        glacial meanders
        marbre en mer  


⏤  for both 

        on australian shores

        note from the perpetual dusk

        the fly


⏤  info  

        bio + cv

        workshops

        news

        contact



~ current : tongues of salt

   residency with tba21’s ocean-archive

~ soon : residency with galería vilaseco


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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.




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

Mark
© Pablo Diserens — 2020 →  2022