Benedikt Alphart is a composer and sound artist from Graz, Austria. At the core of his work sit recordings of sounds that fall outside our everyday auditory experience. These sounds originate from remote regions, emerge through rare geophysical phenomena, are hidden underwater, or exist outside the range of human hearing. He is particularly interested in how instabilities and subtle micro-processes in sound can become perceptible.

 

Soft Collisions weaves together three recent works built from field recordings and ultrasonic sound. Each one marks the recorded material with a personal listening perspective. Through sonic intervention and composition, what the recording stripped away from the embodied experience is drawn back in and pieced together from its fragments.