Colette Aliman

artistiek onderzoek

Colette Aliman is a creative researcher working within the fields of media art and social design. They like researching topics within sonic ecology, producing sound compositions and field recordings, podcasts about sounds of fear, sound installations, and performative lectures. They are launching the platform Sound-Office in Rotterdam that researches the bridges between the development of sound policy, soundscape studies, and sound art practices to generate different ways to engage people's relationships with their soundscape. They are interested in overlapping multi-species sonic cultures, recalibrating our hearing evolution to better live with noise pollution, activating our sonic imaginaries, and the politics of listening.


Sound Office Opening: Deep Listening exercises - Sound Office had it's public opening in September 2023. One of things we did in the workshop of the opening was deep listening exercises in-between port traffic and car traffic.
Cook Quantitatively with Energy - In collaboration with Noam Youngrak Son. Join Ursula and special guests on the show Cook Quantitatively with Energy to construct a recipe for living through these trying times of energy and media politics. We will discuss how to conceptualize energy consumption and relate it to the many different bodies that are using and being exploited by an energized apparatus of commodity. In the end, we will create an energy dough that prophesizes equal distribution of energy across species- to radically reform and create a shared agency in the energy industry and media platforms.
Festooning The Inflatable Beehive - Over several months in 2012 Colette Aliman and Maria Molteni built a giant inflatable shelter, accommodating 10-15 human beeings inside, while thoroughly documenting their design and construction process. Based on the form of an iconic skep beehive, this portable structure is a lure and home base for hosting lectures, demonstrations, and performances related to honey bees and social infrastructures. During more intimate neuro-festooning sessions participants will entangle to share thoughts and skills, offering entomology, lore, philosophy, and devotion. Programing encourages participants to discuss, celebrate, and study honeybees, to contemplate their response to environmental changes, and to consider the beehive’s influence on social structures throughout history.
PROGNOSIS (FM-000) - PROGNOSIS (FM-000) aims to create an interactive platform to gather onomatopoeic language for users to reimagine what the mechaphony soundscape could be. If the importance of the sound is considered as crucial from the beginning of the design process between engineer and designer, then the sounds of the mechaphony will no longer be a by-product, but a sonic deposit that is aesthetic to its locality. Designs are fabricated from sound compositions chosen from public surveys about choosing onomatopoeia words to describe desired sounds for our future soundscapes of devices.
Soundscapes of Fear - The project Soundscapes of Fear highlights Colette Aliman and Lauriane Heim's ongoing investigation on the relation between sound and the feeling of fear. What can we learn when we consider fear from a sonic perspective? Through an audiovisual installation, the project explores the growing exposure to sensory information extracted from popular and trending sources such as film, news media, and music. The installation consists of different viewing stations exude sounds that trigger the spectrum of alertness, including fear. The structures disseminate the experiences that are crafted in our exposure to the media’s manipulations of our fear triggers. This research visualization is part of the FORMAT 2020 program at Z33 and supported by Creative Industries Fund NL.
Detail: Conversing Our Soundscapes of Fear - Online platform to listen to episodes of Conversing Our Soundscapes of Fear podcast. www.conversingfear.online
The Mechaphony, Installation - By interacting with a combination of ceramic technicity, human gestures, and the use of devices to reveal hidden soundscapes, we can reformat the practices of our sonic culture, habits, rituals, and values. Within this experimentation, from mud to mechaphony, the user unveils the existing truths within our sound cultures.
Conversing Our Soundscapes of Fear - Conversing Our Soundscape of Fear is a podcast investigating the relationship between sound and the spectrum of fear emotions such as distress, apprehension, and alertness. What can the action of listening tell us about our fears? Underneath our visually abundant designed world, a prevalent amount of sonic tactics are practiced as well. Yet still hearing is considered an underrated sense. Simultaneously our sonic attention is activated and manipulated for specific means related to the affordances of the design. Conversing Our Soundscape of Fear questions the synthetically crafted and naturally appearing sounds in our environment that are associated with triggering our fear spectrum. Each episode is interwoven with sound performances and discussions between moderators, Colette Aliman and Lauriane Heim, and a series of guests that are invited to share their sonic expertise by playing the speculative roles of the Sound Agent and Sound Politician.