Spatial Audio Week: Bandoneon Resonances #2
Scratched Surfaces
Scratched Surfaces is a performative sound installation that reimagines the bandoneon from the inside out. Instead of melody and rhythm, it listens to air leaks, frictions, and hesitant breaths — the fragile sounds that usually remain erased. Through a multichannel setup, video projection, and objects of practice, the work invites the audience to enter an intimate landscape where sound and silence coexist.
Visitors wander, linger, breathe with the sounds.
There is no clear beginning or end — only traces of presence, gestures suspended between silence and resonance.
This work forms part of Mercedes Krapovickas Lilja’s ongoing doctoral research Bandoneon Resonances, which redefines the instrument as an ecology of relations between body, movement, and space.
Here, the question is simple yet open: What remains after the sound has passed?
Further information: Anna Huuskonen-Kuhlefelt, anna.huuskonen-kuhlefelt@uniarts.fi
Changes are possible.
Spatial Audio Week, 24.-28.11.2025
The Spatial Audio Week is a biannual symposium and festival organised by the Department of Music and Technology of the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts, Helsinki. It assembles musicians as researchers, artists, and guest lecturers from the context of higher education in music across northern Europe. For the 2025 edition, participants are joining from most of the Baltic and the Nordic countries.
The topic of this year’s encounter is ‘Space and Place in Sound’ with the latter part of the week dedicated to a research symposium of that title. The focus of this week is about spatial music, its perception, composition, and tools and methods for producing electronic and electroacoustic music in various manners and styles of surround sound.
This year’s Spatial Audio Week combines a research symposium, listening spaces, workshops and masterclasses, a doctoral installation-performance and a series of spatial music concerts by members of the Music Technology community at Sibelius Academy and our national and international guests.
Scratched Surfaces is a performative sound installation that reimagines the bandoneon from the inside out. Instead of melody and rhythm, it listens to air leaks, frictions, and hesitant breaths — the fragile sounds that usually remain erased. Through a multichannel setup, video projection, and objects of practice, the work invites the audience to enter an intimate landscape where sound and silence coexist.
Visitors wander, linger, breathe with the sounds.
There is no clear beginning or end — only traces of presence, gestures suspended between silence and resonance.
This work forms part of Mercedes Krapovickas Lilja’s ongoing doctoral research Bandoneon Resonances, which redefines the instrument as an ecology of relations between body, movement, and space.
Here, the question is simple yet open: What remains after the sound has passed?
Further information: Anna Huuskonen-Kuhlefelt, anna.huuskonen-kuhlefelt@uniarts.fi
Changes are possible.
Spatial Audio Week, 24.-28.11.2025
The Spatial Audio Week is a biannual symposium and festival organised by the Department of Music and Technology of the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts, Helsinki. It assembles musicians as researchers, artists, and guest lecturers from the context of higher education in music across northern Europe. For the 2025 edition, participants are joining from most of the Baltic and the Nordic countries.
The topic of this year’s encounter is ‘Space and Place in Sound’ with the latter part of the week dedicated to a research symposium of that title. The focus of this week is about spatial music, its perception, composition, and tools and methods for producing electronic and electroacoustic music in various manners and styles of surround sound.
This year’s Spatial Audio Week combines a research symposium, listening spaces, workshops and masterclasses, a doctoral installation-performance and a series of spatial music concerts by members of the Music Technology community at Sibelius Academy and our national and international guests.