Started in 2004, restive is an experimental sound design project with a focus on field recording, found sound and generative processes. Since 2006 I have been releasing work on various netlabels. More recent work includes sound installation and web broadcast. With a background in visual & spatial design, I am exploring ways in which sound defines and creates space, and how it helps us to relate to the world around us.
http://restive.za.net/sound.html
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"As this wave from memories flows in, the city soaks it up like a sponge and expands. A description of [the city] as it is today should contain all [the city's] past. The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the bags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls."
- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Grand Prix winner and Coup de Coeur winner, Académie Charles Cros
