Yoana Buzova

Media , Geluid , Experimenteel , cross-over , Community , Artistiek onderzoek

Yoana is an artist interested in the mundane and banal. She works on installations, performances and tools focused on notions like conditions, frugality, accessibility and transformability.

**Leave a message** - leaveamessage is/was a/in process It is a participatory project, a network of voice mailboxes, that allow members of the public to record and distribute audio messages in public space. The boxes are installed in different counties, cities, contexts. Connected to each other, the boxes provide playful, performative moments for strangers to break from their routine and enter into a network of anonymous voices, traveling an unplanned journey trough cityscapes. hosted in multiple locations in The Netherlands, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Brasil, Greece. Presented at AMRO Festival, Linz (AT), TENT, Rotterdam (NL), Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens (GR), VHDG , Leeuwarden (NL), Dan D Festival, Zagreb (CR)

**Apophenia** - Apophenia Apophenia reflects on the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random data. A ring of man-made machines exists around the earth. Among them secret satellites, lost cosmonauts, objects quietly floating in space, most likely to remain in orbit for the next billion years in collaboration with Matthias Hurtl

**Street Compositions** - Street Compositions is about encoding and decoding, defining the transformation of symbols from one set of symbols to another one. The unconscious collaboration of the neighbours’ through the lightscapes created by their houses. The evening streets are the input. When daylight fades, windows start lighting up. The buildings along a certain street are recorded in large-scale panoramas. Punch cards represent the streets, where every hole in the card is a lit window. The punch card is decoded by a music box into a tune. The outcome is a rhythmic soundscape of the street. The sound is a reflection of a self-organized pattern of urban structures. The second part of the project aims to bring back the melody to its original environment as an installation. The melodies are recorded and played endlessly in hand-crafted concrete speakers along those same streets. This act completes the encoding-decoding process and preserves those transient, insignificant moments. They exist once again.

**Cranked Tapes** - Cranked Tapes are mobile cassette recorders that are literally connected to the bicycle. Under the impulse of the pedalling speed, sounds are recorded and played back, created with the dynamics of cycling. Yoana Buzova and Matthias Hurtl modify bicycles into instruments with which both the cyclists themselves and their surroundings are actively integrated into the recording and sound reproduction. It is an exploration of the disobedient potential of 'vocal' bike and is also rooted in the building of communities trough repair and modification. The project began as research during a local residency and was also presented at RAD performance as a workshop to build and perform cranked tapes during a Critical mass ride in Vienna (AT). The research was initiated during a residency as part of the Aloardi Exchange Programme, taking place at Paviljoen aan Het Water, Charlois, Rotterdam. Throughout the residency, together with Charlois residents, we constructed an 'audio bike ride route', published in a map, a cycling manual, where each location relates to an excerpt from the last book of the Critique of Everyday Life series by Henri Lefebvre, providing anyone directions to explore the sound sites of the neighborhood. An exploration of the interrelation of mechanical, organic, social rhythms and noise in the comprehension of everyday life.

**Relaxing on the waves** - Relaxing on the waves mixes meditative and nature samples with noise and social anxieties into an uncanny magnetic tape radio play and performance. It is entirely performed with multiple cassette tape players and cassette tape loops, raw as well as manipulated through a modular synthesizer. The radio play is recorded and composed by Yoana Buzova and Matthias Hurtl. This work was commissioned by the WORM Sound Studios and Dr.Klangendum

**Bibliotecha** - Bibliotecha is a framework to facilitate the local distribution of digital publications within a small community. It relies on a microcomputer running open-source software to serve books over a local wifi hotspot. Using the browser to connect to the library one can retrieve or donate texts. Bibliotecha proposes an alternative model of distribution of digital texts that allows specific communities to form and share their own collections. Bibliotecha was featured on the cover of [lire+écrire] and presented at AMRO festival in Linz (AT), Bureau Europa, Maastricht (NL), Hackers and Designers, Amsterdam (NL), Radical Networks Conference, New York (USA), Dan D festival, Zagreb (CR), as well as featured in Networks of One's Own: three takes on taking care publication.

**Recipes on the Radio** - Recipes are more than just instructions, whether it is food, or a recipe for disaster. Recipes are deviant, magical and political. Recipes on the Radio was a radio show streamed on the WORM Radio and recorded mostly in the WORM kitchen. It features discussions about food and it's implication in society and culture, bringing together the hosts, Alice Strete and Yoana Buzova, as well as several guests throughout the show. The recording of the show, as well as the recipes that we cooked in each episode can be found on the website.

**Varia Afhaal** - Varia Afhaal are thematic gatherings based around the common experiences, everyday technologies and home economics of food preparation. With Varia Afhaal we create a context in which we can collectively develop a deeper understanding of sometimes abstract socio-economic and political topics by learning with and from each other through discussions, sketching, research, cooking and eating.

**Recipes for Uncanny Times** - Recipes for uncanny times explores the blurring or past, present and future and their uncertainties and unease. It consists of physical tape loops, modified Walkman cassette players, analog telephone and printed matter.

**Listening to the Cracks** - Ongoing collaboration with Matthias Hurtl Humans and non-human animals coexist in urban spaces, yet our relationship remains largely asymmetrical. "Listening to the Cracks" is a research project that delves into the often-inaudible sounds of urban nature. The project explores "strange kinship" with urban non-human animals, particularly those often overlooked or labeled as pests. We investigate the “cracks” in urban environments—untended and unexpected spaces where life thrives. Using field recordings, sonic analysis, and public sound walks, we focus on deep listening as a way to move away from anthropocentric empathy and instead engage with these creatures on their own terms, exploring how they persist in human-dominated spaces.

**Cripping Cultural Work research residency** - How do normative ideas around time and productivity shape the work of cultural institutions? What if accessibility was the starting point for developing artistic programs? What would cultural institutions look like if they were reimagined to center the needs of our bodyminds? At present, disability and chronic illness are systemically underrepresented within the cultural sector, both in Rotterdam and more widely. The intention of the project ‘Cripping* Cultural Work’ is to contribute to a positive shift towards a less ableist field, by re-examining our own institutional practices and imagining alternatives.

Listening to the cracks

Datum: 26-10-2024 t/m 26-10-2024

Locatie: Varia

In samenwerking met: Matthias Hurtl, https://varia.zone

Listening to the Cracks explores the often-inaudible sounds of urban nature. Humans and non-human animals coexist in cities, yet this relationship is asymmetrical. With Matthias Hurtl and Yoana Buzova, participants engage in a listening session at Gouwplein, Oud-Charlois, uncovering overlooked voices. Through field recordings and theory, we invite sound to become thought—challenging how we listen, share space, and perceive power between species.

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Yoana Buzova

Listening to the cracks

Yoana Buzova Leave a gap like a door