photo by Anastassia MüllerPablo Diserens (b. 1994) is a field recordist, composer, filmmaker and visual artist based in Berlin who engages with various topo- and phonographies with a wide range of visual and sonic recording techniques. Blending a rich variety of located sounds with texts, analog photographs and video, Diserens' work brings the bio- and geological features of the explored environments to the foreground. They also compose electroacoustic sound pieces by fusing and altering an array of found sounds, objects and self-made instruments. With a background in film making and sound art, Diserens proposes narrative structures that weave with and within the mind of the audience, accentuating the power of the imagination and memory, to stimulate a new range of sensory images with the aim of sparking environmental 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. Since 2015, they also are (under the moniker Ōtone) the founder and curator of ygam, a record label for industrial sonic tapestries and peculiar studies of noise to unfold.
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. Since 2015, they also are (under the moniker Ōtone) the founder and curator of ygam, a record label for industrial sonic tapestries and peculiar studies of noise to unfold.
SOUND WORKS
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as Pablo Diserens
2020 for scarpa’s fountains [forms of minutiae, vinyl & digital]
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 [Sono Space, digital]
2019 Architectonic Soundprint I - in collaboration with Robin Koek [Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee, digital]
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as Ōtone
2020 Mechanical Gesture - split EP in collaboration with Catartsis [Obscuur, digital]
2020 In-between [Etang Brulant, digital]
2020 In the years of salt lands [ygam, digital]
2019 performance for the month of contemporary music [ygam, cassette & digital]
2019 Testu I [One Instrument, digital]
2019 Anthracite [suspension, digital]
2019 Colonne [LARMES, digital]
2018 Polaris [ygam, cassette]
2018 Nor here, Nor there (in collaboration with cplt) [digital]
2016 Past Structures, Present Matter [ygam, digital]
EXHIBITIONS (selection)
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)
PERFORMANCES (selection)
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as Pablo Diserens
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)
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as Ōtone
2020 Ōtone plays Bin Cir’s scultpure - backsteinbot, Berlin (collaborative performance)
2020 OHM, Berlin (collaborative performance with Fortunes Brine)
2020 Urban Spree, Berlin (solo performance)
2019 Party des Monats (der zeitgenössischen Musik) - ACUD MACHT NEU, Berlin (solo performance) → recording
2019 Noiselab Festival - Teufelsberg, Berlin (solo performance)
2019 OHM, Berlin (solo DJ set)
2019 Punctum, Prague (solo performance)
2019 Arena Club, Berlin (solo DJ set)
2019 Spektrum, Berlin (collaborative performance with the duo Magnétisme Animal)
2018 Tresor, Berlin (solo DJ set)
2018 Spektrum, Berlin (solo performance)
2017 Drone-Übernachtung - Modular+, Berlin (solo performance)
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
RADIO PIECES
2020 Gaza Protokoll - radiophonic work by Maxi Obexer (sound & score) - premiered at Friendly Confrontations festival
FILM SCORES & SOUNDDESIGN
2020 thum - animation short film by Luca Depardon (sound & score)
2018 Untitled - video pieces by Burkhard von Harder (score)
2017 DÄNZ#4 - dance workshop by Vincent Bozek (score)
GRANTS, RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2020 Stipendium Kulturprojekte Berlin (cultural project grant from Berlin’s Senate)
2020 Interdital Zone - 3rd prize winner of the 60 secondes radio
2020 Plan B. Artist Sutdios, Greece (residency, july - august)
2019 MONOM - center for spatial sound, Berlin (residency, june - july)
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