For Una Boccata d'Arte, Brazilian artist Stefanie Egedy presents BODIES AND SUBWOOFERS (B.A.S.) 8.0: PERMANENZA, a site-specific sound installation composed of subwoofers and low-frequency sound waves. Pursuing the idea and practice of a vibrational experience and the therapeutic effects of low-frequency sound, such as stress and anxiety reduction, Egedy constructs a body of work called BODIES AND SUBWOOFERS (B.A.S.). By analyzing the specificities of the surrounding space, the artist arranges the subwoofers and selects the sound frequencies, taking into account their transparency, only perceived through tactile perception, as well as those that create other sounds, such as resonances, reverberations, and vibrations.
Considering the specificities of the surrounding environment, initially planned for a village in Valle d’Aosta and later transferred to Tones Teatro Natura in Oira (a hamlet of Crevoladossola) due to the limitations imposed by the village, Egedy has arranged 8 subwoofers in a specific configuration that offers a unique vibrational experience for the location. Around the subwoofers, seats crafted by an artisan from Valle d’Aosta have been installed, creating a harmonious landscape between nature and technology. Thanks to this particular arrangement of the subwoofers, Egedy manages to create "live zones" with higher or variable sound pressure and "dead zones" without any acoustic pressure. The liveliness of an area is determined by the expression of sound pressure throughout the zone, where our bodies can perceive the acoustic signal directly through our skin. Invisible to the eye but immediately perceived by the body, these long sound waves embrace the bodies and the surrounding spaces, filling the air with pressure while simultaneously taking care of our bodies. In other words, Egedy works with the invisible touch of sound, where an audio massage is perceived by our skin and listened to by our body and soul.
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Work:
Stefanie Egedy, BODIES AND SUBWOOFERS (B.A.S.) 8.0: PERMANENZA, 2023, 8 Subwoofer J-INFRA d&b, wooden seats, variable dimensions.

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Exhibited work: Tones Teatro Natura, Via Valle Formazza, Oira - fraz. di Crevoladossola (VB)

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Stefanie Egedy lives and works in Berlin. She investigates sound as a composer of conceptual pieces, music, and electronic music. She is focused on researching possibilities with low-frequency sound, bodies, and subwoofers. Her practice stems from installations to live performances, building a body of work called BODIES AND SUBWOOFERS (B.A.S.). Sub-bass, bass, infrasound, subwoofers, and their capacity to make themselves present in a space, are the foundations of her artistic practice. Egedy explores the interaction between human/architectural bodies and sound waves, using field recordings and analog and digital synthesis, creating a cross-over between sonorous and musical language to investigate sonic communication between beings.
Egedy co-runs the label COISAS QUE MATAM, researches the relations between light and sound with Camille Laurent, and has worked with Chris Salter on his latest spatial production; whilst a former academic investigation of the political impacts of social and technological acceleration during a bachelor’s in Public Administration and Philosophy resonates with the work. Stefanie Egedy is an artist of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the European Union.