maryia kamarova

Wiredness Studio

collaboration w/ PPP

Wiredness Studio produce mockumentary soundtracks in real-time, featuring minimal effects with exaggerated affords. The narrative and format change with each session, while the core characters remain consistent: cork instruments, low fidelity equipment, misbehaving electronics, volcanic pigeons and electret monkeys swaying on the lianas of cable networks. Drawing on PPP’s interest in dysfunctional electronics, and Kamarova’s microscopic theatre of squeaks and crackles, Studio Wiredness sculpts the spatial setting through their performance, shaping a new picture with an as-yet-unknown plot.

The project emphasizes an economy of listening and music-making, advocating for the use of simple and recycled means – found objects and lo-fi audio equipment. Confronting the imperfections of our chosen materials, we integrate play, failure and joy into our research. we developed a modular multichannel setup consisting of assemblages of electret microphone capsules, amplifier boards and speakers. Its portability allows for what we call “performative roo(u)ting”, meaning an act of moving objects and sound in space. Here we aim to eliminate the use of the omnipresent mixing console and propose a decentralized network of scattered objects, designed for real-time capturing, reproduction and spatialization of sound.

The setup becomes an ecosystem linked to a specific spatial situation. Each act is performed by the objects, while our focus is directed towards facilitating their behavior and adapting the setting to architecture and geometry of a space. We create a micro foley studio, where the soundtrack for an imaginary documentary is produced in real-time.

developed in Sonoscopia, Porto, La Labomedia, Orléans, 2024