RESONANT TERRITORIALISATIONS

Sound installation
Length: ‘7
Date: 2024

Shown at Design Academy Eindhoven,
Part of ongoing research and work.

‘RESONANT TERRITORIALISATIONS’ is an experimental spatial sound installation that orchestrates field recordings and diverse sound fragments into a multi-layered soundscape across four speakers. A strong base sound sourced from the line demarcation machine of a football pitch travels sequentially through the speakers, grounding the composition and adding an embodied layer.

The audio excerpts and recordings used are listed on the right. Together, these sounds produce a charged acoustic territory shaped by politicised events of instrumentalisation, narrative negotiation, and governance through football.

FIELD RECORDINGS: AMSTERDAM [NOVEMBER 10, 2024] Illegalised pro-Palestine demonstration, “Amsterdam says no to genocide”, Dam Square. FIELD RECORDINGS: AMSTERDAM [NOVEMBER 6, 2024] Taxi and car horns in the evening before the football match between AFC Ajax and Tel Aviv Maccabi. FIELD RECORDINGS: AMSTERDAM [NOVEMBER 7, 2024] Tel Aviv Maccabi supporters on the Dam square on the day of the UEFA football match against Ajax (November 7, 2024) LINE DEMARCATION MACHINE: FOOTBALL FIELD [JUNE, 2024] “ White as the marker, and the eraser” — Yara Sharif, on the act of rendering into an invisible state, in the context of Israeli (architectural) occupation of Palestine. OUTTAKES: FIFA STATUTES [1992, 2016, 2024] Excerpts from different editions of FIFA’s and the IOC’s governing documents and definitions. NATION-STATES DRAWN FROM THE LOTTERY FOR INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL TOURNAMENTS Including Palestine, Kurdistan, Kosovo, Hong Kong, Taiwan (called out as Chinese Taipei), and Northern Ireland. Political sovereignty vs. Football sovereignty.