IEVA VAITI


sound, art, technology






Terra Poetica I
2024 Interactive installation that welcomes a range of speculative ecological futures through emergent poetry, sound, and computational networks. Through movement and interaction, audiences uncover a world where words can become entangled, ushering in a universe of sonic environments.

Topics
ecology, interactivity

Resonant Extrusions I
2024 Resonant Extrusions is an immersive sound installation that plays with the concept of time-space, exploring how each of us inhabits our own unique temporal and spatial dimensions, shaping different memories of the same moment.
Topics
time, temporality, memory

AGORA
2024  AGORA - a place of gathering was a 4 day residency inviting visitors to contribute to our pool of ‘shared knowledge’. It resulted in a collaborative installation featuring an interactive soundscape, 3D sculptures and audio reactive visuals. 
Topics
time, temporality, identity

Body In Sound
2024  Installation that investigates shifts in identity by using the body as a tool to access morphed memories of a specific geographical location from which the artist migrated from during childhood years. Interactive in nature, participants are encouraged to walk over a projected screen on the floor, accessing an array of sounds stemming from field recordings of a distant forest.
Topics
body, identity
SOIL 02
2023  How can we use sound and light to understand the patterns that present to us in data over time? SOIL is an immersive installation that cycles through the last 30 years of agriculture soil data from the UK, translating the complex nutrient information into analog patterns.

Topics
ecology, data, soil
System’s Garden
2022  This series is a playful experiment that uses simple recursion systems to recreate new species of botanics. Being drawn to nature’s unpredictable, elegant textures and repelled by anything synthetic, it was surprising to learn that such complex structures can begin with simple rules - a theory that has been toyed with in mathematics and biology for many years

Topics 

generative systems, patterns
Plague of Doubt
2022  Contemporary dance performance piece made directly post Covid. How has our ability to make independent decisions and form opinions changed? Performed at Messums Gallery, Wiltshire.
Category
Performance, Dance, Music, Theatre
Barbarians
2021 A play by Maxim Gorky investigating how industrial change can impact communities - a relevant topic even after 100 years. Directed by Filter Theatre, performed at Barbican Centre.
Category
Performance, Theatre, Interactive
Some Silver Burns
2020  Exploring human experiences of fragility and loss, Some Silver Burns is a multimedia contemporary dance performance which unfolds in four movements, featuring music, contemporary dance and visuals from collective SYNTREX. 
Topics
world building, identity, loss
Places
2019 Places //  2 is a multi-media dance piece performed as part of Syntrex collective at various clubs in London, with live visuals, dance and music. Discovering a sense of place was the fundamental narrative and building block of the piece, stemming from migrant backgrounds within the collective. "this track wonderfully allots space to tense processed strings, warped, wordless alien voices and post-rave kick drum thuds" DJ Mag
Topics
identity, place
Conform EP
2018  Conform is seeing every day as a distorted version of reality. Inspired by London's tall concrete blocks, gritty underground tunnels and wet terrain, you will find samples and reflections of this through sampled rain drops, home made glitch and hard hitting beats.
Topics
world building

Parade For A Modern Man
2018

Parade For A Modern Man is a documentary exploring the rich contemporary dance scene and life in Beirut. The soundtrack supports the poetic nature of the documentary, gently holding the narrative. From light, floating violin harmonics to an expressive flute helping bring out the emotion of the story, to full blown cinematic strings for wide shot moments of beautiful landscapes. We learn about the culture rich city, the thriving communities and how the people cope with the ever changing hardships.
Category
Music, Film
We Astronomers: Star Gaze
2017 Immersive piece based on observations of our planetary orbit and its correlation with the paths we take as individual beings on this planet. With the aspiration to enhance with the viewers perception of their connection with the universe. Surround sound explores the planetary star data and sonifies this in time with the projected footage. Group exhibition as part of UAL x Guildhall x Barbican Centre collaboration.
Topics
time, space