Christian Kesten
German sound artist, born in 1966, mainly interested in audio aspects of oral language and performance.
German sound artist, born in 1966, mainly interested in audio aspects of oral language and performance.
F23M-12: Field With Figures No. 1 - 4 / Rush!
F23M-12: Field With Figures No. 1–4 / Rush! is a distinctive entry in Another Timbre’s Berlin Series, sharing two worlds of experimental practice. In the first half, Christian Kesten and the late Mark Trayle create four pieces for voice and electronics. Kesten’s sound art blurs the line between vocal utterance and language: inhaled whispers, fricatives, murmurs, and spectral vowel shapes figure as events on a mutable sound field. Trayle’s electronics situate these gestures within shifting archit…