Temperatura: Looking for Life vol.1
Looking for Life vol. 1 presents three sound performances on the evening of the 21st of May at GROND, Amsterdam. Part of the Temperatura experimental music series.
With Ege Şahin, Domenika Georgiou, and Oscar van Leest.
Curated by Kristijonas Groblys.
food by Judith Baten
The act of looking for life is rooted in the search for vital, necessary action — the wish to be affected, the openness to experience. Three artists will weave around the theme of sound-making and its connection to the act of living.
Shaping sound physically, Ege Şahin will intervene in acoustic space with feedback baritone guitar. The improvised poetry of towering and complex tone structures emerges in the modular synthesis of Oscar van Leest. Domenika Georgiou blends human and machine life in her performance for Nintendo 3DS and mechanical armour.
GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, 1096AP, Amsterdam 20:00 (doors: 19:30)
Tickets: regular €10 (or more) / discount €7 – available at the door or Online
Dinner: + €15 (RSVP required – Reserve by purchasing online)
About the Artists
Ege Şahin – Mirror Angel
Ege Şahin’s Mirror Angel emerges from an improvisation practice to explore sound’s vibratory potential in the space between a human performer, electric guitar, and amplifier(s). There will be a rationally tuned baritone feedback guitar, transducers, electromagnetic mics and exciters, and a performer in relationship with them through feedback, metal objects, and his body.
Ege Şahin works in sound and music near the free-improvisation and electro-acoustic spheres with care for materiality in composition and spirituality in performance. On the more academic side, he has been researching the relationship between different cultures’ metaphysics and their sound culture as part of his Master’s at the Institute of Sonology, in the Hague, where he is now based.
Oscar van Leest – Untitled
Oscar van Leest (1994) is an Amsterdam-based sound artist, musician and sound designer. In his practice, he explores the entangled relationships between sound and spatial context and how they are experienced across a wide range of technical tools; from software and to electro-acoustic devices and modular synthesis. The same tools shape his musical projects where they are applied in a genre-defying sonic framework of experimental electronics that emphasizes improvisation, indeterminacy and generativity.
Oscar will perform a texture-focused live set, built around a modular synthesizer setup.
Domenika Georgiou – MechaHeartCore
Domenika Georgiou is a multidisciplinary artist based in The Hague. Currently pursuing an MA in ArtScience at KABK and the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. Her work spans performance, immersive installations, sound, digital media, and custom-built machinery—including wearable cyber prostheses and autonomous devices. With a deep interest in paradox, transformation, and post-dualistic states, Domenika explores the thresholds of identity and perception through symbolic, metaphorical and cybernetic frameworks. Her work has been shown and performed across Europe in venues such as Kupfer Gallery (London), Fabbrica del Vapore (Milan), Bim Milano.
MechaHeartCore is a powered armor machine with a built-in heart mechanism, designed to protect the wearer from external threats while fulfilling the human desire to mechanize nature in the pursuit of new life through technology. The soundscape unfolds through glitchy Nintendo textures moving between ambient sweetness and distortion. It shifts from a comforting softness to chaos, from delicacy to decay—beating a rhythm of memory transforming into new life, and exploring the tension between fragility and artificial foreverness
