Embodied Interfaces For Ruinous Sonics
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.
101 Outdoor Arts Residency:
A week-long residency with 101 Outdoor Arts focused on expanding my embodied sound practice into an outdoor context. I developed and tested a mobile interface for Heartstring/Heartsing, using a rod transducer to feed the sound of my heartbeat back into the surrounding environment. The residency enabled practical experimentation with the interface’s construction, the manipulation of the rod as a sound-producing element, and the possibilities for scaling the work beyond an indoor performance setting.05-11/10/2026 for 101 Outdoor Arts
Homebody as Part of ‘One up, One Down’ Residency:
The performance was the culmination of a one-week 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