mathias arrignon 天凯

𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗘 | 𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 | 𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 1 & 2 𝙏𝙝𝙪 16𝙩𝙝 𝘼𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙡 2026 𝙎𝙊𝙉𝙄𝘾 𝙇𝘼𝘽 5𝙋𝙈–6𝙋𝙈 𝙁𝙧𝙞 17𝙩𝙝 𝘼𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙡 2026 𝘾𝘼𝙋𝙏𝙐𝙍𝙀 𝙇𝘼𝘽 12𝙋𝙈–1𝙋𝙈 A series of performances exploring climate, ecology, and sustainability. Co-produced with Reach’26 Arts and Sustainability Festival, these concerts bring together works that respond to environmental challenges and consider new approaches to artistic practice. Featuring works by Joseph Potter, Andrew Lewis, Viktoria Arvayová and Celestína Minichová, Eimer Birkbeck, Mathias Arrignon, Sarah Angliss, Abi Prián and Miki Corfiel, Gordon Delap, and Hantao Li with Juice Shuting Cui. Link in bio for full programme

Quadrophonics with @luukke.sound @soniakillmann_sound @bethhorseman and @mathias.arr.tk last night was very special. Thank you to the artists and everyone who joined us - and in particular to Luke and Sonia for putting it all together - more to come soon. Happy Spring Equinox.

Delighted to be organising this night with @luukke.sound and @gloss_cic on the 20th of March! Quadrophonics An evening of live music using 4.1 surround speaker setup. LIVE SYNTHS, ELECTRONIC SOUNDSCAPES, FIELD RECORDINGS AND VOICE BY @luukke.sound pond.baby (@bethhorseman ) @mathias.arr.tk and @soniakillmann_sound BYOP (bring your own pillow) Ticket link in the @gloss_cic bio ✨ POSTER BY @bethhorseman

brief elegy to the pale 8-page pamphlet from one A4 sheet, colour print, offered at the Beneath the Surface Skin opening at Raleigh Chapel, London. Edition of 160 copies.

Until the 13th February, my piece `Brief elegy to the pale’ is still being played in its 4-channel installation format, as part of the beautiful solo show of Jurga Ramonaite `Beneath the Surface Skin’, at Raleigh Chapel. Opening times 12-2pm By appointment [email [email protected]] Raleigh Chapel 138 Church Walk, N16 8QQ London @jurrga @raleighchapel

4th - 13th February 2026 at the Raleigh Chapel, London (UK), my work ‘Brief elegy to the pale’ will be presented as a 4-channel sound installation as part of the exhibition ‘Beneath the Surface Skin’, which brings together 11 works from the Arctic by artist Jurga Ramonaite, including hand-printed landscapes, photograms of kelp and a short film. Exhibition opening on the 4th February, 6-9pm, Opening times: 12 -2 or by appointment RSVP by sending an email at studio[at]jurrga.com Raleigh Chapel, 138 Church Walk, N16 8QQ London @jurrga @raleighchapel

Echoes from 2025

What an inspiring way to conclude this first edition of Listening as Porosity with this public symposium! Thank you to everyone who was involved in these discussions to reflect on how field recording can be practised in a more mindful and ethical way. For over two hours, we shared so many ideas, connected thoughts and listened to a wide range of sounds. Above all, we were able to explore areas of disagreement, contestation and friction, while remaining in a space of calm, respectful dialogue and listening to one another. It was very enriching to have this safe space for critical and radical reflection, while blurring the dichotomy between artists and the audience. Among the highlights of the afternoon: • Thank you to Riah Naief for opening the symposium with a beautiful listening exercise, focused on allowing ourselves to listen in the space of the Listen Gallery. • Thank you to Tom Fisher and Mélia Roger for generously sharing so many ideas and concepts related to field recording practice, a wealth of knowledge that they brilliantly managed to connect. • Thank you to Mathias Arrignon for mapping out all the coordinates of this collective reflection on the fly. This mind map has been refined and is now available online and freely accessible (link in IG bio @listening.as.porosity ). • Thank you to Coline L’Achiver for once again impressing us by creating an alternative version of the event poster with a riso print, with the help of Good Press (@good_press ). FYI, we still have lots of copies left if you’d like a poster for your home! • A big thank you to everyone who came to the symposium, listened to us, added ideas, exchanged views with us and contradicted us with great care. It was truly a pleasure to have you as a member of this panel! Finally, Mathias is currently editing the audio recording of the symposium and we hope to be able to put it online very soon, hopefully before the end of 2025! @mathias.arr.tk @actionpyramid @meliarog @listengallery @colinelachiver

We did it! As a big ensemble, we achieved this beautiful gesture of listening to an amazing corpus field recording based pieces, together, in one same place, for one evening! Thank you for this unforgettable moment, your presence as listeners made this experience really special! Whether it was a new experience for you or not, we really appreciate how open and welcoming you were during this event. Thank you Riah for hosting us at @listengallery and for unfolding all the delicate potential of this beautiful space which made these type sound based events, soothing, friendly and uplifting. Special thanks for arranging this wonderful meal prepared by @palmtreekitchen , we would never say enough about how having a contented stomach allows our ears to be more cheerful ! Thank you to all the artists involved in this amazing programme : @meliarog for sharing a poetical use of acoustic enrichment in the forest of her hometown. A special attempt of fostering empathy and caring towards damaged environments. @actionpyramid for infusing us with a rich sonic imaginary and curiosity to otherworldly entities from water, soil and plant matter. @jurrga for sharing her film The Line with us, giving plenty visual coordinates of Svalbard while @mathias.arr.tk was presenting his sonic elegy to the Arctic world, blending his listening and ours with the environmental realities of those remote lands. @colinelachiver for unleashing a beautiful array of visuals for the event series, and her awesome support for the smooth running of these 3 days. Listening as Porosity was happy to have facilitated this first immersive listening session in 4.1 at Listen Gallery, we are pleased that is opening up a promising use of this quadraphonic system within the gallery’s creative community. We can’t wait to listen what’s going to be played next on that sound system!

A big thank to all the DIY enthusiasts who attended our workshop with Mathias Arrignon and Action Pyramid at Listen Gallery. It was a real pleasure to meet you and to see you persevering in assembling your hydrophone. We were amazed how you were trying something new, and sometimes… yes failing at doing something else… but most importantly how you were learning from the experience in a friendly atmosphere! We hope we did spark a new taste for DIY projects and that you’ll continue to practice your skills in using a soldering iron! Talking about these tools, we are happy to announce that we did donate 8 soldering iron kits that were used during this workshop to the Glasgow Tool Library ( @glasgowtoollibrary ), a community run library providing affordable access to tools and equipment for your home, garden and hobbies. We thought it would be great to make those tools available for a greater number of people, so we are encouraging you to consider hiring some tools from them! And last but not least, we also want to share an online document with a selection of DIY resources that is available in @listening.as.porosity link below the bio. We will try to update it with some new projects, knowledge bases and crafty ideas to keep you stimulated! @mathias.arr.tk @actionpyramid @listengallery

It’s been a jam packed and insanely special three days for the @listening.as.porosity project here with @mathias.arr.tk @actionpyramid @meliarog and @colinelachiver . What an amazing group of artists and people! Here’s some snippets from the excellent programme curated by Mathias… it all kicked off with the DIY hydrophone workshop, then listening session on quadrophonic setup and concluding with a public symposium on critical/ethical field recording practices. To the people who came to each event and those who came to all, thank you! Thank you for being so kind, so generous and so supportive of this project but also this space. For being so present in seeing, hearing and feeling. I know I say it a lot but I don’t take this work for granted, it’s truly an honour to be part of this space with you! I also said it during the events but all the equipment at Listen has been donated throughout the years and thanks to Mathias we now have a subwoofer and quadrophonic system for artists to use, what a dream come true!!!! This means even deeper listening futures together 🥹 And last but not least thank you to the super chefs and staff at @palmtreekitchen for the delicious food and always being so good to us xxxx The love is real!!!

And last but not least, Mathias Arrignon completes the trio for this series of events. As well as presenting his work as an artist, Mathias is also the initiator of « Listening as Porosity ». After receiving a grant from the Creative Scotland Open Fund for Individuals programme, he decided to develop an event structure that would open up sound art practices to the public. Through « Listening as Porosity », he seeks a way to share the practice of field recordings, going beyond listening to works and taking the liberty to explore the working and thinking processes of artists who use this medium. For him, field recording is not a solitary practice, it is a collective learning experience. Mathias Arrignon is a French artist from Val-de-Marne, based in Glasgow and working internationally. His practice, rooted in attentive listening, explores environmental care and the invisibilised realities of more-than-human worlds. Combining field recordings, audio technologies, interactive installations, and participatory performances, he creates spaces of interconnectedness and shared sensitivity. His work has been presented at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale, Southwark Park Galleries, Centre Intermondes, INA GRM, and The Arctic Circle Residency, with broadcasts on Resonance FM, Phonurgia Nova, and Sonic Matter. In 2020, he received the Sound of the Year Award from the British Library and New BBC Radiophonic Workshop. @mathias.arr.tk @listengallery @listening.as.porosity @creativescots