Jasmine Guffond is an artist and composer working at the interface of social, political and technical infrastructures. Focused on electronic composition across music and art contexts her practice spans live performance, recording, installation and custom made browser add-on.
Research based artistic projects provide sonic experiential platforms that encourage listening as a mode of socio-political investigation and explore what embodied sound and listening may contribute to the production of knowledge. She has released solo records on the Sonic Pieces (2015, 2017), Karl Records (2018), Editions Mego (2020) and OOH-Sounds (2024) labels.
Jasmine Guffond curates the eavesdrop festival on November 6+7, 2024 at silent green in Berlin. She will also be presenting her new sound installation there.
FACTS
1. On the 16th October 2024, 42,020,489 cookies circulate across the World Wide Web and personal computing devices with one percent identified as ‘strictly necessary’.
(https://cookiepedia.co.uk/)
2. Amazon Web Services (AWS) owns 31% of Web cloud infrastructure in 2024.
(https://www.statista.com/chart/18819/worldwide-market-share-of-leading-cloud-infrastructure-service-providers/)
3. Google fired 50 employees who protested cloud contracts with the Israeli government.
(https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/23/tech/google-fires-employees-protest-israel/index.html)
1. What is the biggest inspiration for your music?
A love for music and sound.
2. How and when did you get into making music?
I started playing music at school, first with the recorder then flute. I began making music when I taught myself bass guitar at 18.
3. What are 5 of your favourite albums of all time?
Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
Art Ensemble of Chicago – Les Stances a Sophie
Earth – Earth 2
Eliane Radigue – Adnos III
Meredith Monk – Do You Be
4. What do you associate with Berlin?
A paradox: increasingly problematic – gentrification, censorship and at the same time I deeply appreciate the music and art community here.
5. What’s your favourite place in your town?
One of my favourite places is Tempelhofer Feld.
6. If there was no music in the world, what would you do instead?
Listen
7. What was the last record/music you bought or listen?
Most recent CD purchase is a 2nd hand copy of “Miles Davis, Olympia, 20 Mars 1960. Part 2.”
8. Who would you most like to collaborate with?
Deep Fakes
9. What was your best gig (as performer or spectator)?
One of the best gigs I’ve been to from memory is Pan Sonic at What is Music? Festival, Sydney 2000.
10. How important is technology to your creative process?
Essential.
11. What can we expect from your installation at the eavesdrop festival in Berlin?
It’s a generative multi-channel audio-visual installation that explores the poetics of chaos and its relation to encryption technologies. Visuals by ilan katin.
