Annabel Schouten

Annabel Schouten (1999)

In my practice as a soundfinder, self-proclaimed title, I develop experiences. Because of my fascination for sound, I use listening as my main tool to awaken other senses. The interplay between senses is what I call a composition. You could call me a composer, composing for all the senses. Because I believe that through the opening of our senses, we, humans, can experience ourselves and the world around us.

Until this year, the work was the experience— a solo sensation of the experiencer. But this shifted. The work became not only about having an experience, but also about making it.

I used to, and still, work with these three elements:

1. Acoustic sounding interventions, to invite you to listen closely and farley, to expand your attention beyond yourself.

2. Immersive installations, to invite you to listen physically, to feel carried and grounded in your own body.

3. The landscape, operating as a nurturing realm for your body and mind to land into. Operating as the context which interplays and improvises with the work

I have added a fourth point to my practice:

4. The process of creation, inviting people I encounter to create with me

Picture by Hanneke Noordam