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Habitat 2.4 is the first collaboration of video artist Thomas Mohr and composer Reinier van Houdt. Mohr is processing more than 7000 pictures taken moment by moment while exploring areas of Noisy-le-Grand, Nanterre and Paris as part of a larger project about the experience of Public space early 2019 just before the first lockdown. Van Houdt is using sourced 'found sounds' from situations and devices that cross distances, like trains, radio's, tv's, nasa satellites, the power grid, mobile phones, oscillators-all caught on the border of where the cyclical nature of stationary or 'frozen' sounds touches upon transient sounds of fast movement. In Habitat 2.4 - the first level of processing Mohr is composing and structuring his photo material in a time system relating in many ways to usual time measuring but more dynamic. The experience of the moment with it’s before and after, the turning of now into past is repetitively re-assembled in a structure of frames, sequences and units. Van Houdt composed strict closed structures and populates this architecture with found complex soundblocks that deform, rearrange or ravage the building to show the glorious uncontainability of soundmatter- as a challenge to contingency.

Thomas Mohr: Moving, change, transformation, experience. Exploring processes of perception and memory systematically since the late 1980ties. From 1985 onwards a growing archive containing more than 600000 pictures- regarding a wide range of events of transition from a collective meaning to very personal moments- and thousands of social media screenshots. Living and working in Amsterdam. Distributed by LIMA. Sreenings at various festivals since 2009: IFFR/Rotterdam, JMAF/Tokio, Ars Electronica/LInz, Transmediale Berlin, Japan Media Arts Festival, NeMaf/Seoul, IKFF/Hamburg, Jihlava IDFF, HAFF/Utrecht, Media Art Biennale Wro, Rencontres Paris/Berlin, EMAF, Atonal Berlin Reinier van Houdt is a composer/musician based in Rotterdam[NL] working with piano, objects and fieldrecordings. He developed a fascination for matters that escape notation: sound, timing, space, physicality, memory, noise, environment - points beyond composition, interpretation and improvisation. Aside from his own work he collaborated with Robert Ashley, Annea Lockwood, John Cage, Alvin Curran, Michael Pisaro, Francisco Lopez, Alessandro Bosetti, Christian Marclay and Luc Ferrari. Performances at CTM Berlin, Meltdown London, Alternativa Moscow, Angelica Bologna, Huddersfield Festival, Unsound Krakow, Art Basel Hong Kong, Primavera Barcelona. Reinier van Houdt is also part of David Tibet's Current 93 and worked with Takashi Makino on his film Memento Stella.