“Feedback improvisation: On reciprocal modes of listening and sounding” is a bundling of four transdisciplinary projects that seeks to respond to context-specific practices and writings by feminist, queer and Indigenous artists, writers and scholars by imagining practice-based strategies of radical attentiveness to face industrialisation and settler entanglements to human and more-than-human entities in Sápmi / Norway. 

It engages critically with academic discourse, methods, "fields" and technologies used in sound arts and contemporary archaeology by exercising feedback improvisations that reflect on relational affect. In practicing feedback improvisation as a form of field recording, interaction with things and objects reverberates sounds that contain textures, timbres, pitch and speak of materiality, ambience and relationality. In this hybrid correspondence between bodies, technologies, materials and place both sound and the actors involved take shape and inform decisions, relations and disconnections in a process of feedback.

With this artistic research I aim to evoke holistic listening perspectives and reciprocal sound creation whilst proposing feedback improvisation as a space of relations and for conversation that does not imply documentation nor sound by default. The ethical dimensions are mediated through various collaborative projects that each manifest different demands of and perspectives on feedback improvisation and my position as an artist and visitor in both Sápmi and Norway.

Andreas Kühne (b. 1988) is a Dutch sound artist, composer, and drummer involved in making electroacoustic music, collaborative audiovisual performances and interactive installations that focus on listening positionalities and cross-pollination between improvisation practices and the environment.

Andreas is a PhD fellow in electronic music and music technology at the Musikkonservatoriet, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Kühne’s work has been exhibited and performed at Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø Museum, Landmark Bergen Kunsthall, Lofoten International Art Festival (NO), Sonic Acts Festival (NL), Baltic Circle Festival (FI), Inversia Festival (RU), Lighthouse (UK) and more.