“I had a productive November, beginning with a breakfast broadcast alongside @mattiaikio at Goethe-Institut in Helsinki, who funded my travel. I planned to spend my time at Titanik working with some experimental audio/music technologies and remixing some music in dialogue with Dreamscape Records, who I will visit in Batticaloa next year. I also began researching

“I’m so grateful for this time at Titanik during which I worked on two music + video works that will become part of my live music performance ”Mouth Noise”. These two compositions are called ”The Long Arc of Privilege” and ”Face Break”. Using methods ranging from satire to catharsis, they each work in different ways

Titanik A.i.R | Sumugan Sivanesan | November 2023

“During the residency in September, I created a sound installation titled “Surface Tension” which is included in the current exhibition “Dearly Detested Concrete – Brutalist Architecture in Finland” at the Sibelius Museum (on view until 7.1.24). “Surface Tension” conceptually and sonically examines notions of resistance and force within environments close to the edge of a