Kleine Geluiden by Kunrad

Over the past six years, I have created installations and performances that celebrate the small, often overlooked sounds embedded in our daily lives, placing them on a pedestal. From machines that transform rain and paper into the first Physical Audio Workstation, to contraptions that send 1,000 small brass tubes ringing and tumbling through the air. Performances where stones are thrown into water with intent, or a human-powered carillon, spanning 50 meter long ropes, harnesses, and rubber hammers striking a bridge at the heart of a city.

Driven by my passion for field recording, I captured these fleeting, temporal moments using an ever-changing array of microphone setups. Now, I am delighted to present these recordings, extracted from their original artworks and curated into a new, standalone listening experience.

I hope this album will act like a book, inviting you to imagine the contraptions, the spaces, and invent new stories behind the sounds. In this way, it becomes a canvas for your imagination, a place where new worlds emerge so that kleine geluiden, small sounds, find new ways to enrich our daily lives.

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Sound is the most important element in Kunrad's work, which consists of installations, compositions and performances. He has completed the Bachelor of Music in Composition for Electronic Music at the University of the Arts Utrecht, and the Masters of Music at the Interfaculty ArtScience in The Hague. Kunrad is currently based in The Hague.

As an artist I try to increase the value of the everyday. Every moment of the day I try to be open to discover new things. I aim to illuminate the small sounds and phenomena that surrounds us in our daily life. A person that whispers is better to understand than someone that screams. By letting the work whisper, I try to engage the visitor through curiosity; they must actively participate in order to experience the work.

Based on this active participation, I want visitors to discover the work. The story of my work is created from the experience of the visitor. As an artist I ask myself: “How to let a single drop of water have the impact of a waterfall?”

Crónica is an artist-run, non-profit label dedicated to sound art and electronic, computational, and experimental music.

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