Vilbjørg Broch / More Sound Residency
12 January to 9 February 2026
Poesiens Støj – Støjens Rum – Rummets Poesi
[The Noise of Poetry, The Space of Noise, The Poetry of Space]
The residency will explore the mesh of space, time, and sound. How these are inseparable both mathematically with respect to analysis and also as experience. For signal processing and algorithmic composition, I currently spend time exploring transformations in higher dimensional geometric spaces and how these can project onto 3D for spatial audio works. During the residency I will make recordings with spatial microphones at IAC and look at ways to transform these recordings, to possibly reimagine time, space and sound altogether. Possibly transversing higher dimensional spaces on the way. It is a large project with close to infinite possibilities, so this will be the beginning. And even though many tools come from mathematics, then tuning and navigating through transformation systems is a poetic quest.
Vilbjørg Broch (* 1967) has a background in postmodern dance, improvisation and vocal performance. Her studies include School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam and more than a decade by coloratura soprano Marianne Blok. Vilbjørg worked with computer music for around 20 years and from the onset she saw a possibility and necessity for applying new mathematics in the field. Therefore, the study of pure mathematics alongside audio DSP has been ongoing through the last years. The work with spatial audio has especially developed thanks to working periods and residencies at CCRMA Stanford, IEM Graz, NOTAM Oslo, EMS Stockholm, ICST Zurich. Vilbjørg Broch is based in Denmark after several decades in Holland.
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