Ilai Schwebel
“Connections” is a solo performance that brings together live modular synthesis and digital miniatures.
The work emerged from a year-long investigation along two parallel lines. The digital line developed through a structured studio practice, in which sonic materials were gathered through synthesis, improvisation, and field recordings, and then woven along a temporal axis. In contrast, the analog line introduces a physical presence: at the center of the performance stands a modular synthesizer whose components were curated and assembled by the artist. It is an instrument that demands presence, movement, and live performance.
In the space between electrical currents and organic textures, a living sonic field unfolds, inviting listeners to lose orientation within a shifting sound kaleidoscope that continuously disintegrates and reassembles into a very strange form of electronic music.
“… Electronic technology offers us the possibility of divorcing ourselves from the necessity of virtuosity without divorcing ourselves from the possibility of intense and meaningful interaction with our instruments.” Don Buchla, 1983
From the small studio on the isolated hill in Ein Karem, the sounds of electronic instruments emerge. Deep, sharp, beautiful, and strange tones blend with the surrounding nature, seeming to make the ground itself vibrate.
