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Reinterpretation of a hydrophone recording of cracking ice in Belmont Marina, Chicago. Original material by Charlie Cooper. Contribution to "Sounding Nature", a project initiated by Cities and Memories. [read more on my soundcloud...]
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Alexander Köppel is an artist, sound producer and spatial designer based in The Netherlands.
He engages in multiple disciplines - often in collaboration - researching human perception, the practice and modalities of listening and guiding (into) acts of attention.
Alexander composes with multiple sensory agents to create spatial scenes that invite the audience to be with what is present, to be sincere with their senses.
Manipulated field recordings, distinct spatiality and textural sounds often form the basis of his musical work.
By speculating on memory, interiority, landscapes and repetition, Alexander aims at stiring up the listener's imaginary.
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Curriculum vitae
Education
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Self-taught
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2022 - 2022Artist Survival Guide iii - instrument inventors initiative, Den Haag
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2022 - 2022Field recording & Listening workshop by Mint Park Klankenbos / Oortreders Festival & iii - instrument inventors initiative, Den Haag
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2021 - 2023Artscience Interfaculty (MMus) Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten diploma
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2017 - 2019Architectural Design (BA) Amsterdam, Gerrit Rietveld Academie diploma
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2012 - 2017Interior architecture (BA) University of Art and Design Burg Giebichenstein Halle diploma
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2011 - 2012Pre study year art and design Werkbund Werkstatt Nürnberg
exhibitions
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2023HONK - if you are at the intersection Lobattostraat 8, The Hague The Hague, Netherlands Preview show of the Artscience graduates 2023 Group
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2023silencio vol.3 - unexplained iso amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands How does our view of art change if we use different ways of explanation? Silencio vol.3 is an artistic experiment that challenges the role of explanation in art. Shown work: SONDER in collaboration with Maarten Keus and Inga Hirsch www.silencio.ooo/vol3 Group
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2023Graduation Show 2023 Royal Academy of Art The Hague, Netherlands 2023 Graduation Show of the KABK Shown work: BA.102 - a composition for granular presence (15') graduation.kabk.nl/2023/alexander-koppel Group
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2023Wibar Digitaal Club Wibar Leiden, Netherlands Festival at Club Wibar, featuring live performances, DJ-sets, digital art and interactive installations. Shown work: IMT 553 www.wibar.nl/evenementen/wibar-digitaal Group
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2023Traumburg Festival Schloss Dornburg an der Elbe Gommern, Germany Live performance of SONDER in collaboration with Maarten Keus and Inga Hirsch www.traumburg.net/ Group
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2023CASS Royal Academy of Art The Hague, Netherlands As part of the CASS concert series, a joint effort of the departments composition, artscience and sonology, I presented "Seconds Last Friday" (10'), a quadrophonic composition / sound installation tailored to the gallery spaces at KABK. Group
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2023Hugging Architecture amare The Hague, Netherlands Hugging Architecture is a group show inviting its audience to experience the building that is amare in unconventional ways. [read more on the website...] Shown work: - group performance - "Did you hear us", a sound installation in collaboration with Tom de Kok www.amare.nl/nl/pQW4kCL/hugging-architecture-2023 Group
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2022Have we met? Dutch pavilion at the Triennale di Milano Milan, Italy Have we met? promotes new ways of understanding the Earth as a shared space for plants, microbes, humans, and other animals. The view that earth exists solely for human exploitation must be radically rethought in order to confront the environmental crises the planet is facing today. The exhibition therefore explores what attitudes, organisational tools and technologies are necessary to recalibrate the relationship between humans and non-humans. [read more on website] triennale.org/en/events/netherlands-have-we-met Group
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2022Oortreders Festival, "Into The Thin Air" Klankenbos,musica impulscentrum Pelt, Belgium Presentation of the workshop outcome "Into The Thin Air - Site specifics", guided by Mint Park, as part of Oortreders Festival. Shown piece: Aftertaste (7'43'') www.musica.be/ Group
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2022Altered Stated Festival De Regentes Den Haag, Netherlands Live sound, sound production and performance for Studio Maarten Keus' piece "Unular Bore" theaterderegentes.nl/ Group
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2022Artscience shortcuts Het Hem Amsterdam, Netherlands Live performance with Live Rave Theater hethem.nl/en/Het-Hem/Calendar/2022/10/Art-Science-Student-Programma Group
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2022Traumburg Festival Schloss Dornburg an der Elbe Gommern, Germany Live performance with Live Rave Theater www.traumburg.net/ Group
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2021Uncloud:‘Transliminal’ (The old) Pieter Baan Centrum Utrecht Utrecht, Netherlands Festival and pop-up museum Shown work: FINSTER (Multi-sensory site specific installation) uncloud.nl/ Group
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2019"As a Fact of Matter" - Graduation show Architectural Design, GRA Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, Netherlands 2019 Graduation Show of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Shown work: "Acts of Attention (Traces)" rietveldacademie.nl/nl/page/1025482/alex-k%C3%B6ppel Group
Projects
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2023
SONDER The Hague, Netherlands Sonder is an audience composable installation-performance with manifold possibilities. 40 lenses come together in a curved installation, breaking different kinds of light in spectacular ways onto the audience. Accompanied by a paired score borrowing from field recording, techno and noise, the piece is played almost as an instrument, apparatus, a sculpture come alive. The work explores individualism and collectiveness; it spans a dynamic range which gives time and care to small details as well as overwhelming gestures. The audience is invited into states of introspection, wondering, chrysalism and a sense of sonder. Sonder is a first collaborative piece by the artist group MIA (Maarten Keus, Inga Hirsch and Alexander Köppel). Orginally created for Traumburg festival 2023, SONDER is now in further development.
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2023
BA.102 (15') A composition for granular presence Royal Academy of Art The Hague The Hague, Netherlands graduation.kabk.nl/2023/alexander-koppel BA.102 (15') A composition for granular presence BA.102 is a site specific composition for multichannel sound and light. A scene exploring the qualities of its space and different modes of relating. The piece invites to explore the edges of one's perception. It creates a time and a space in which affects can be embraced as they occur. BA.102 brings you to where you can tap into the more granular areas of your attention, listening and presence. [This project and its development became somewhat of a blueprint for a series of compositions I am planning to do in the future - different spaces, different alterations will keep shaping the underlaying ideas of the piece and what it can become for an audience.]
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2023
IMT 553 (10') Club Wibar Leiden, Netherlands IMT 553 (10') For Wibar Digitaal, Alexander Köppel transformed one of the shipping containers in the club into a sound chamber. The installation attempts to blur the physical boundaries of the container, playing with resonant frequencies of the space and its tactile responses. IMT 553 invites listeners to explore the lush, textured composition challenging its confined metal home.
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2022
Live Rave Theater The Hague, Netherlands Live Rave Theater is an ongoing band project in collaboration with Myra-Ida van der Veen, Milu Chen and Andrzej Konieczny. Using mostly live improvisation, we are exploring energetic danceable tension. We have played at Traumburg Festival (DE), Art Biesenthal (DE), konvooi festival (BE), Pip Den Haag, instrument inventors initiative (iii) Den Haag, Het Hem, Amsterdam... and on many alternative occasions.
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2021
FINSTER Utrecht, Netherlands FINSTER (- Dark [German] - syn.: sinister, gloomy, obfuscated) is a site specific installation transforming one of the cells in the old PBC for Uncloud 2021 into a multi sensory spatial scene. It combines subjects of architecture, culture and perception. The work embeds all surfaces of the cell in black fabric, creating a second skin, a delusive cover, which leaves the visual subordinate to olfactory, tactile and sonic stimuli. FINSTER draws parallels to spaces which seem the farthest away from our current possibilities of unforeseen encounters - with others or oneself - where the unknown (also) makes space for excitement and freedom. The installation aims to counteract the obvious prison cell, seeking to evoke feelings of insideness and otherness and offers a place to dwell in.
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2019
Blind Drawings To Music The Hague, Netherlands Blind Drawings To Music is an ongoing project started in 2019. It is playfully capturing connections of movement and emotional response while listening to pieces of music.
International exchanges/Residencies
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20174DSOUND - Spatial Sound Institute Budapest Budapest, Hungary After my first studies I did an artist residency and internship (technical assistant) with 4DSOUND to dive deeper into the connections of sound and space. I learned a lot, was able to develop my practice and give my live performance debut. The time at the SSI was incredibly important for me. Today I look back at it as the major starting point of my research into sound, space, human perception, listening and atmospheres. spatialsoundinstitute.com/
reviews
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2023LateMode Podcast #15 - Touching Sound - the failure of concepts with Alexander Köppel Giulia Morlando Amsterdam, Netherlands open.spotify.com/episode/6rPU0HslGiuK56CKpHEPJL?si=fc869fd648ca41ab In this episode, Giulia is joined by Alexander Köppel, an artist, spatial designer and musician, currently based in The Netherlands. Alex's work fuses sound and space into sensorial experiences conveyed through installations, sound production and narrative elements. Fascinated by his modes of investigation Giulia invited him into a discussion about failure and perception. How do we create intention while leaving space for the imagination? Those topics brought upon a reflection on how paying attention can help us care for ourselves and others. (Episode description by Giluia Morlando)
Awards and grants
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2019DAAD Stipend DAAD - German Academic Exchange Service Amsterdam, Netherlands Two year stipend from the german academic exchange service DAAD (2017-2019)