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Alina Rov
I am a sound artist and composer working at the intersection of data, mechanical systems, and material sonification. My practice explores how environmental and scientific data can be transformed into physical, tactile sound objects such as magnetic resonance in piano strings, textiles with embedded sensors, or custom-made acoustic devices. My work combines various media with modern computational tools (supercollider, sensor systems, cycling 74), creating installations in which visitors physically interact with sound. I left Russia in 2022 following an 8-year prison sentence in absentia issued by Russian authorities due to my involvement with protest collective Pussy Riot. I am currently lives and works in The Hague, Netherlands, studying Sonology.
15-minute audio performance exploring energy harvesting — the extraction of microscopic amounts of energy from the environment — as both a technical process and a poetic condition of contemporary life. The work is based on the principle that energy exists everywhere, yet almost never in sufficient quantity. Light, heat, movement, vibration, and radiofrequency signals surround us continuously, but the energy they provide is fragile, unstable, and barely usable. This performance listens to that threshold. Rather than representing energy metaphorically, the piece treats scarcity itself as a compositional force. Sound emerges, weakens, distorts, or disappears depending on simulated or actual availability of energy. Silence, noise, and interruption are not aesthetic choices but structural consequences.
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