Yulia Gogoleva

Project author, sound artist and researcher

A sonic portrait of the Outline grounds, assembled from field recordings, the sonification of coordinates and sounds of human presence. Research, a performative composition and a map reveal the place beyond its festival programme.

Author and performer

A performance for gong, low-frequency electronics and sonified astronomical data. Music of the Spheres translates a cosmic scale into the experience of listening and the bodily perception of vibration.

Sound module curator, researcher and educator

A curatorial module exploring landscape through listening, field recording and the sounds of materials. A week of work on the Outline grounds becomes a sound map, a collection of textures and a field zine.

Laboratory facilitator, researcher and lecturer

A laboratory on hearing and researching industrial space. Sound becomes a tool for reading architecture: its volumes, materials, infrastructure and forms of human presence.

Co-author and performer

A performance about time and memory: the popping of bubble wrap is recorded and returned in successive layers of sound. Every new action changes how the past is heard.

Lecturer, soundwalk facilitator and participant in the City Noise discussion

A lecture and soundwalk on natural sound in human experience and landscape design. Ideas of biophilia become practice through attention to water, plants, birdsong and sonic relationships in the urban environment.

Co-author, sound artist and performer

A collective performance about intimacy, fragility and overcoming estrangement through shared action. Sound, natural material, light and bodily presence form a ritual of gradual unfolding.

Author and facilitator of soundwalks within the trail programme

A soundwalk along the LES art and therapy trail in Gorki Leninskiye. Movement, pauses and focused listening reveal the forest as a changing environment that includes the participant.

Co-author and performer

A sound ceremony opening Outline Festival as a gesture of gratitude to the site. Instruments, electronics and collective silence direct attention towards the forest that hosts the festival.

Project author; winner of the Art Factory competition

A proposal for two acoustic mirrors transmitting voices between distant speakers. A winner of Art Factory 2024 for Brusnika, the project turns conversation into an exploration of distance, sound direction and mutual attention.

Co-author of the collective work; laboratory participant

A collective multichannel audio installation inspired by Stéphane Mallarmé’s A Throw of the Dice, created in the Sound Basis laboratory at GES-2. The poem becomes a starting point for working with sound, voice and space.

Project author and lead

An artistic research initiative by SENSONICA devoted to natural soundscapes. Expedition recordings of animals, water and wind form the basis of an audio archive and works exploring attentive environmental listening.

Author and performer

A sound performance for GES on the Nerl, bringing together gong, crystal bowls, frame drum and electronic music. Instruments, natural surroundings and listeners’ presence form a contemporary mystery of shared attention.

Author of the sound concept and compositions; developer of installation proposals

A sound concept connecting Bali’s natural sounds, the hotel’s architecture and guests’ routes. Original compositions and installation proposals contribute to a broader spatial concept for exploring perception.

Lecturer

An MMOMA × Kotä course on sound as a physical phenomenon, cultural image and way of knowing. SENSONICA’s lectures trace its place in creation myths, philosophy, mystical traditions and ritual.

Co-author and participant in the collective work; gong performer

SENSONICA’s co-authorship and participation in Nastya Bezrukova ++’s collective performance PAGANCORE OPERA. The gong contributes a physically felt resonance, connecting individual gestures to the space of the action.

Mix author and field recordist

SENSONICA’s guest mix for Pastoral on STEGI.RADIO, assembled from field recordings made for The Nature of Sound. Natural soundscapes become an independent composition for attentive listening.

Author and performer

A gong performance on Valaam, relating metallic resonance to the natural space of Lake Ladoga. A sound ritual turns a pause in a journey into a focused experience of presence and listening.

Author of the sound and multisensory concept

A sound and multisensory concept for Moscow’s Sapiens restaurant, considering music, conversation, light, scent and texture as parts of one experience. Research informs decisions about the sound of the space and guests’ experience within it.

Author of the composition and performance

A composition and performance-ritual about women’s voices erased from the city’s memory. Opening a box that evokes a soundproof room, SENSONICA releases a hundred screams and turns listening into an act of symbolic liberation.

Concept author

A sound installation concept in which many people’s voices form a space of personal divination. Visitors listen to a multichannel stream and create their own interpretation: a contemporary ritual of addressing the unknown.

Workshop author and facilitator, lecturer and gong performer

A lecture and workshop for architects and urban planners on the relationship between sound, space and perception. Listening practice and gong meditation explore this relationship through direct bodily experience.

Author and performer

A four-hour gong performance by SENSONICA on Mutabor’s rooftop for the club’s anniversary. Sustained sound creates a space for focused listening, resonance and gradual shifts in attention.