„The piece Zeitgemäße Betrachtungen explores the shifting relationship between Chronos (quantitative, measured time) and Kairos (qualitative, lived time), and the human experience caught in between.

The performance is structured around three sonic bodies:

Chronos — time measured by the ticking of the clocks.

Kairos — time as presence, represented by light-sensitive oscillators built in oyster shells, their tones modulated by the luminosity of the sky, changing as clouds pass by.

The human perspective — embodied by the no-input mixer, a fragile inner voice that processes and transforms both signals, creating feedback loops that resonate with its own contradictions.

The piece reflects a tension: the difficulty of contemplation in a world where technology constantly redirects attention. The mixer becomes a mirror of the self — an inside that consumes itself, stretched between longing and fragmentation.

As Douglas Rushkoff once said in a Yale lecture: ‘Time is more of a landscape than a piece of technology.’ My piece seeks to wander through that landscape — between the measured, the felt, and the elusive now.”

Bio:

Laure Boer (FR) is a sound artist and musician based in Berlin. Her music is inspired by noise music and traditional folk. Her performances are hypnotic improvisations around traditional instruments, electroacoustic and DIY-electronic objects, and sometimes a voice, singing or reciting in her native French; a vibrant universe that is both vulnerable and brutal. She has worked with i.a. Tarek Atoui, Rabih Beaini, Marie-Louise Andersson, Miki Yui and many others and did several residencies such as Nusasonic in Manila/PH (CTM/Goethe Institut/Musicboard Berlin), and Sound Art Lab in Denmark, an institution in the former Bang&Olufsen laboratories. She played at Berlin Atonal, WSK Festival/PH, the Dokumenta fifteen, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Haus der Kunst Munich, ARTE TV and toured Europe solo and in various bands constellations. She is published by the labels Kashual Plastik, Chinabot, Otomatik Muziek, and has been featured on the compilation „Below the Radar“ by The Wire magazine, BBC Radio and NPR.

More About the artist: www.laureboer.com