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I am Régis Lemberthe (they/them), a sound artist and designer based in Berlin.
I came to sound without formal training, instead approaching it as someone used to building physical objects out of strange materials, and to thinking in terms of interactions and processes. My first projects were sound sculptures devised to accompany physical installations, often functioning in resonance with them. It took me years taming the process to begin thinking of playing them live, and this led to the inception of Glass Nest, a performative installation consisting in an a large structure through which melting ice triggered various types of resonances and electroacoustic signals.
At the same time I also started hosting experimental sound arts sessions at Noiseberg, Berlin. The series would expand over nearly ten years to over 100 sessions and three festivals (DAT Fest, DAT Walk and DAT Quad), and allowed me to exchange perspectives on music-making with countless musicians from around the world—most of which I now call friends.
Through these exchanges I have grown my own practice. I learned some coding skills and have focused my music-making on the live, electroacoustic sonification of natural and mathematical phenomena—electromagnetic feedbacks, bouncing marbles, lissajous curves, or the erratic trajectories of a bristlebot swarm—and on building audiovisual stories from the outcome. Those have happened solo, as well as during special (some very spontaneous) collaborations with musicians Analytical Engine, DFVOKKLL, Uchi, Or Sarfati, Wissam Sader, Farah Hazim and Nour Sokhon. This list is bound to grow.
Some of my interventions are conceived as soundtracks for other projects—deep listening or live drawing sessions. In collaboration with AUUNAN, I composed the soundtrack for the live reading of Sheree Domingo's comic book Madame Choi & The Monsters.
A few of my projects adopt a more classical approach to sound-making, in the sense that I don't yield control to unpredictability. These are Noisette, a low-key, miniaturised no-input setup harnessing the most from a single mixer feeding into itself, a electromagnetic field, and a triangle; and noise hip-hop venture The Next Christina Aguilera.
When I don't work on sound things, I keep busy doing project as part of Design Fiction studio N O R M A L S.