Joshua Thies

audiovisual - digital - education - experimental - sound

Currently investigating avenues of sound through curating, programming and creating compositions of sound and voice via audio streaming online.


Hurluberlu - Composition of sounds found in the vicinity of Montpellier, France in the pandemic summer of 2020. Vocal contributions by Ghislain Amar and Lucia Rosenfeld. 14:14 https://soundcloud.com/rotterdam_art_and_radio/hurluberlu
Panic - Field recording composition with sounds found in art spaces, plazas and nature spots around Rotterdam, Netherlands and Vienna, Austria. April 2020, 26:39. https://soundcloud.com/rotterdam_art_and_radio/panic-april-2020
An AUDIO Postcard from Rotterdam - Radio Program hosted by Audio Foundation: Sound artist, Joshua Thies and Urban Researcher Veronica Olivotto set out to discover white noise and pollution in Rotterdam. As the largest port city in Europe, Rotterdam is resonating with the sound of industry from container yards, major shipping lanes on the river Maas, freeways across the lowlands, public transit and a small airport on the outskirts of the city. Noise pollution, from those and other sources, is perceived as a problem in the city, causing sleep disorders, increasingly forcing families to move to quieter locations out of the city. One of the deterrents of noise pollution, ironically, can be ‘white noise’, a competing constant or recurrent sound, dissolving into the local environment. In this postcard we aim to search for samples of noise pollution and white noise in the city, find the meaning of these notions as well as possible points of overlap or ambiguity.
These Fields - Video still from a series of video works based on observing earth via google earth app, visiting specific spaces and actions at these spaces with audio field recording compositions from these spaces to create an audio/visual experience virtually in an abstract environment somewhere between the satellite and the ground.
Various actions at Hellebou, Helleberg, Telemark, Norway - A publication documenting various actions and installations in and around the terrain near Hellebou residency.
Night Knights - Short film about satellites and the black sea
Gabo Scream Queen - 4 channel sound installation at the Naum Gabo sculpture on Coolsingel in Rotterdam
Stored Potential - 6 channel sound installation
Garment factory glass - Sound installation on glass of former factory building in Rotterdam