Ran


Sonic body mutualism
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Embodied sound art

Ran is an embodied sound artist who makes performances using devised frameworks to explore 
sound, body, and environment through mutuality.

Ran’s practice often employs novel listening and sounding apparatus that he constructs and designs, 
so as to create networks that can be manipulated, embodied and enacted.




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Homebody:

The performance was the culmination of a one-week micro residency centred around a Victorian ‘one up, one down’ house set to be demolished.

I made a sound sculpture using materials gathered from the ‘one up, one down’ house, my own home, and the gallery space. A geophone and transducer created a feedback loop through the materials, making their materiality audible.

On the last day of the residency, I performed a short piece in which my body was introduced as a conduit between these materials from the three homes.

Geophone, Transducer, Various materials. 05/03/2026 for Council Gallery’s ‘One up, One Down’ Micro-Residency @Two queens Leicester 








BodyfeedsBodyfeeds:
Talk Boxer

Embodying friction using a geophone (a type of microphone designed to record seismic activity), which feeds into a DIY talkbox (a device that shapes sound from an input through a tube placed in the user’s mouth, with the sound then modulated by the mouth’s movements). 




Geophone, Talk Box and performer 16/06/2025 for Bubble Gum’s Monday Night Affair @LoveAffairBasement Video by Valentin dely






21/11/2025 for Operformancef @thekoppelprojects






19/09/2025 for RUPTURES  @Chisenhale Dance Space 






08/11/2025 for Perfomancef and Shipton gallery  @Lost Club Night








BodyfeedsBodyfeeds:
Heartstring

A piece that holds the perfomers heartbeat and their enviroment in mutuality.

The performer sounds their heartbeat through a wired transducer, that is fed back to the environment, which resonates as the wire is manipulated in an improvised enactment of body and space.


Stetothoscope, transdcuer and performer 26/09/2024 for TAKDAJA’s Odyssey Of Oddities @riversidestudioslondon







Orders of magnitude


The piece comprises a d.i.y metal plate speaker through which Ran performs improvised breathing routines. The work is only ever performed in a live setting, it is never rehearsed or practiced. 

The performance ends at the point of complete physical exertion making its length indeterminate. These conditions make it so every iteration is distinct and mirrors the performers physicality, 


Microphones, d.i.y. plate reverb and performer 01/10/2022  for  Word of Warning (hÅb)’s Emergency 2022 @contactmcr  






01/08/2022 Live art club Ldn @vsslstudios





09/09/2021 Runt of the litter @Hackneywick






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Mouthpiece

A series of experiments resulting in severe vertigo with 6 months of rehabilitation. 

Using a trasnducer and stethoscope microphone feedacking voice with a mechanical excitation of vocal chords.

The vibrations unfortunately dislodged the small crystals in the left ear canal responisble for balance resulting in Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV), the symptoms of which persisted for half a year. 

The work has become a lost work never to be re-enacted  for fear of injury.


2023-2024




Bowl that was used to catch sick produced as result of acute vertigo rpisode
D.I.Y. attempt to create counter balance to alleviate symptoms of vertigo (unsuccessfu

Mouthpieces

A two perfomer version of mouthpiece. 
The work employs a feedback loop where voice is transfered via transducer between the two performers. 
Two stethoscope mics pick up the opposite performers voice and sound their voice into them.


Performers: Ran and Yarden gur