Art & Technology / Sound Practices SAIC

Please join us in welcoming Jenny Gräf Sheppard for an afternoon talk with the AT/SP Visiting Artist Program!

Jenny Gräf Sheppard is an artist and musician based in Copenhagen. She activates peripheral places and states through sound composition, improvisation and participatory works. Her recent works deal with the multi-sensory aspects of listening and how relations and ecologies can be sensed and enacted. Her recent development of tactile speakers led to development of The Pidgin Choir (2022), and Speaker Release (2024) a spatialized sound installation with a choir of 15 speaker-instruments made of porcelain, copper and magnets. Speaker-instruments filter, translate and voice sound sources variously due to their design and performed manipulations, reflects an interest in deconstructing the enclosed, control over sound that the conventional speaker offers, replacing it instead with unpredictability, interference, noise and the possibility for performers and audience to manipulate the transduction of sound in live performances.