Deliberate, intentional sound production is one of humanity’s special creative skills and enables active shaping of the acoustic environment. Wind instruments, flutes made from animal bones, represent humanity’s first instruments. For 40,000 years, humans have been vibrating air currents to produce sounds. In her new performance project, however, Hye Young Sin experiments with fundamental physical properties: how does air swirl around instruments, and what resistance enables sound production? At the same time, Sin is developing a digital electronic network that generates and produces air currents. ‘Housewarming II’, conceived for BLAUES RAUSCHEN, builds on this double interdependence: while analogue wind instruments such as melodicas, recorders and harmonicas rely on air from the network to produce sound, the instruments are needed to make the effects of the digital controllers audible.

Hye Young Sin’s works straddle the boundary between sound art, performance and visual art. The South Korean artist, who lives in Cologne, has a considerable number of exhibitions and performances/concerts to her name. After studying in Korea (Information and Culture Technology), she graduated from the Cologne Academy of Media Arts in 2022. Since 2017, she has performed in numerous contexts, at festivals, art biennials and experimental formats – solo and in collaborative projects, most recently with Sebastian von der Heide as Sea San. In addition, she pursues her own curatorial practice, bringing together sound art, installation and contemporary music.