(sound files, co-creational process, amplification)

With I Hope This Will Resonate With You I am engaging in a collaborative act in order to create momentary relationships and produce a keepsake for the listener, a short composition based on chances and errors as well as reflection and confidentiality, by shifting the focus from the use of the Tarot cards as a means to analyse or disclose personal situations to their employment as a tool for musical composition, loosely drawing inspiration from John Cage’s methodology of using the book of I Ching as a guideline for his works. During the past years I have been deepening my interest in the arts of the Tarot as a tool for spiritual development and self growth, focussing on the significance of the universal symbology of the Major Arcana as archetypes of the human experience.

I have asked fellow sound artists and friends to contribute with a one minute sound, for a total of 22 sounds. No instructions nor guidelines were provided and the contributors were free to send me any sound they had recorded and felt like sharing. Each sound collected has been then associated to a card of the Major Arcana. During the performance I am asking the participant to sit with me and have a brief conversation about the nature of the work. I am shuffling the deck of 22 cards and asking the participant to pick 4 cards. The resulting spread is forming the accidental score I am using to create a short composition unique to each participant. These sound collages are then forming a continuously evolving longer composition to be looped throughout the duration of the exhibition.

Contributors:

Ruby Devoe, Rami Abi Rafi, Håkan Jonsson, Martina Raponi, Mark Ho Kane, Samantha Tiussi, Stefano Loiacono, DISORGANISM, Christian Schiefner, Anna Arzillo, Verónica Mota, Kimi Recor, Julian Miller, Fletina, Paolo Calabrese, Quatrefoil, Francis Theberge & Hendekagon, Aleksander Stojanov, Julieta Ortiz de Latierro, Nixie Maefly, Simon Hill, INYAN, Lutz Gallmeister

The following list includes the people who chose to sit with me during a 3 days collaboration with guests of Errant Sound - Berlin, July 21st-27th, 2023 (as part of the Sonic Tales group exhibition), with trust and an open mind: Nixie, Ani, Robin, Bipin, Greg, Daniel, Sharlene, Mattias, Veronica, Orlando, Stefano, Lukas, Claudia, Jessica, Jenni, Katharina, Beate, Elliot, Pooja, Sven, Stefanie, Sandy, Kathia, Edoardo, Eugenio, Laure, Olivia, Julieta, Katharina B., John, Bruce, Jeremy, Kimi, Kriti, Lutz, Samantha, Ro, INYAN, Kris, Loris, Ashley, Pierre, Simon H., Clemens, Madhvi, Kani, Yeonji, Georg, Samantha T., Sofia, Rami.