+ sound-video artist
+ project coordinator
+ workshop facilitator
+ photographer
John Grzinich (Estonia/US) has worked since the early 1990s as an artist and cultural coordinator with various practices combining sound, moving image, site-specificity, and collaborative social structures. My work often explores the perception of sound and space to find resonances between people and places. In recent years my focus has been on combining sound and listening practices with various media to confront anthropocentric perceptions of the world through expanded forms of listening and participatory engagement.
Over the years, my compositions have been published internationally on various labels and I have performed and presented installation works at numerous audio art festivals. Through features and commissions, my audio work has appeared on Deutschlandfunk Kultur, ABC Radio Australia, NTS Radio, Resonance FM, Estonian National Radio, Polish National Radio, RTV Slovenia and others.
Additionally, I have worked with experimental video production since 2000 often in combination with my audio work. In 2010 I completed my first two film works, ‘mimema’ and a treatise on sound and site-specific activity ‘Sound Aspects of Material Elements’, both of which were screened internationally and then published on DVD by the US label and/OAR (2012). I’m continually attempting to rethink the cinematic format with an emphasis on the sonic experience. This emphasises a more animistic view of living landscapes, material objects, and the built environment through the complex relations of human and non-human agents.
From 2003-2019 I was a program and project coordinator at MoKS, an artist-run international residency centre and project space in southeast Estonia.
online links: bandcamp, soundcloud, flickr, freesound, youtube, mastodon, radio aporee maps, discogs, instagram
site concept: any system has one dimension of phase space for each variable that can change – mutation will change one or more variables and shift the system a small distance in phase space
for comments and questions, send me message via the contact page.
