Artist: Tuce Alba
Photo: Laura Sono
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A breath becomes vibration, vibration becomes distortion. This performance approaches tradition, not as a fixed entity, but as part of an ongoing, evolving process, exploring the collision between ancient resonance and modern sonic brutality. By blurring the boundaries between cultural heritage and contemporary noise, it creates a space where these elements coexist and reshape each other.
The ney, traditionally bound by specific images and ideologies, is reworked, stretched, and distorted – its breath fragmented, resynthesized, and transformed into a new form that challenges tradition yet remains connected to it. This approach does not aim to preserve or authenticate tradition, but to explore the fluidity of sound. It rejects the rigidity of cultural hierarchies and fixed perceptions, instead investigating flexibility, uncertainty, and the physicality of sound. Through this exploration, the performance provides a space where sound’s potential for transformation and reshaping perceptions is at the forefront.
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Tuce Alba (b. 1996) is a Turkish-born and Berlin-based architect, musician, and sound artist. She creates performative, temporal experiences through sound, exploring the textural relationship between sound and space. Her work is driven by improvised spatial compositional structures and the physical impact of sound over time. In live performances, she constructs raw, heavy noise, distortion, deep bass, and feedback, drawing inspiration from brutalist structures. She treats sound as a solid form, breaking and reshaping it in real time. No melody, no softness, just pure, concrete energy. Her work is an exploration of sound as material, meant to be felt as much as heard.
