Stan Wiersmabiography
Stan Wiersma (b. 1996, Groningen, NL) is a sound artist based in Amsterdam. He explores the act of mediated listening through performance, improvisation, publishing and broadcasting. With a background in image and media technology, Stan’s practice spans live group performance, site-specific sound works, programming, and experimental forms of publishing.
He is the founder and curator of not@home, an online media archive for freeform radio, and a performer in various collaborative constellations including my imaginary friends (of which I have many) and the music project spullen. Recent performances and presentations include Paradiso, De Melkweg, Tale of A Tub, Kunstpodium T, Garage Noord, and Het Nieuwe Instituut.
Currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Design at the Sandberg Institute, Stan investigates themes of mourning, and listening as a collective, spatial, and embodied practice.
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Description
A performance by my imaginary friends (of which I have many) at Paradise in The Hague. The performance included a handout for people to read while listening.
Instruments:
Elektron Octatrack, Modular Synthesizer, Microphone, Hearing Aids, Effect Pedals, Microphones
Performers:
Chryso Amaya Michailidis, Stan Wiersma
With an arrangement of instruments, microphones, written text, and a personal archive of field recordings, the improvisation-based sound project and band in flux places listening as a host to share space through sound out-of-phase repetitions and cut-up vocal loops move through feedback choirs and resonances that live in hearing aids. As the constant present passes, we oscillate between self and other, following an unwritten score across isolated background noise and comfortable silences.