UKRAINE SONIC SPACE PROJECT - MUSEUM EICAS

Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022. The invasion was internationally condemned as an act of aggression by the United Nations.

As a son from a second marriage with a father who fought in WWII, Roland Kuit knows what the violent traces of war and the fight against fascism could cause. Roland’s father was traumatized. His father's war trauma had impact on the family. Kuit was looking for a place where he could experience safety, and he found peace and space for himself in art.

War in Ukraine. The unthinkable is happening in Europe: the Lives of millions of people are affected directly or indirectly by this war on a global scale. As an artist, Roland feels the need to respond with sonic art against these acts of barbarism in Ukraine. The expression of sound is closest to Roland's artistry, and he therefore decided to create a neo-Dadaistic concept by making experimental sound collages from edited recordings from Ukraine. This processing is done with the Kyma system – a supercomputer for sound synthesis and sample manipulation. The result are landscapes, formed by sound spectra from, among other things, existing war reportage, as a commentary. Roland tilts these spectra and crosses this data from the three-dimensional fields that have now arisen. This can be in a chaotic way or based on algorithmic structures. In addition, these sound spectra are a metaphor for escape routes in a war world that we can perceive as sound trajectories moulded into binaural audio sculptures. An end stage of what we call human civilization. As a statement against war, ethnonationalism, protectionism, fascism and establishment.

Roland Kuit

Roland Emile Kuit is known for his 3D architectural sonic constellations performed in the Rietveld Pavilion, Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo / Sonic art for the NASA OSIRIS-Rex mission / Concert for Tomas Rajlich Museum Kampa – The Jan and Meda Mládek Foundation, Prague / The International Contemporary Art Exhibition “Soundlines of Contemporary Art“ Aram Khachaturian Museum. Yerevan, Armenia / 1° Festival Internacional de Música Contemporánea “Atemporánea ” 2019 Buenos Aires, Argentina / International Festival of Experimental Music Sound Around Kaliningrad 2020, National Center of Contemporary Art Kaliningrad, Russia / Monograph Roland Kuit Radio Arte Italia / MONUMENTUM – Sonic Monument for the Victims who died as a result of the COV-19 Pandemic / Publications in the art magazines l’Orbe and Avenue Magazine, Sound On Sound Magazine, Cinquecolonne Magazine and WIRED: Musica Globalista.

Roland Emile Kuit lectures, performs/exhibits at universities, art galleries, museums and creative hubs in Europe, the United States, Asia, Russia and the Baltic States.
Featured Sonic Artist at DONEMUS - Publishing House of Dutch Contemporary Classical Music.

Roland Kuit: Internet klanken, Kyma 2022

De opbrengsten van deze werken ten bate van Oekraïne. Deze worden gedoneerd door EICAS, European Institute for Contemporary Art and Science.
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