Samuel Julian Grace
Samuel Julian Grace
Creator bio: Samuel Julian Grace is an Irish–Salvadoran artist based in Germany, working primarily with sound. His practice explores how people experience and make sense of artworks, how perception, attention, and understanding unfold over time. Rather than producing fixed objects, Samuel creates active works that change through interaction, inviting viewers and listeners to participate in the work’s meaning.
Description of work + title: ‘Listening Listening Listening’ is a two-stranded approach to sound and listening in two different settings and environments.
When we listen to a sound, even if you and I hear the same source, the way we perceive it is completely individual. Our backgrounds, our age and even our mood affect the way we make sense of it. This is what makes sound art especially interesting for me. We all hear this but does it mean something different to each of us?
Listening Listening Listening is based on this question in two strands.
The first strand is a multichannel installation in the Gallery Space of the Goethe Institute Ireland. As this work is a fixed work it is much more individual, most likely listened to alone or in silence with others.
The second strand is a live performance in the Auditorium space of the Goethe Institute Ireland. This second strand focuses more on collective listening and the uniqueness of experiencing something together but having an individual perception of it.
Both works are made using sound produced from hand coded patches in Supercollider and Pure data. Both open source softwares.
This work features a sample of ‘What Will We Do When We Have No Money’ played on the concertina by Joseph Julian Grace.
Creator/work website: samueljuliangrace.com Instagram: @samueljuliangrace
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