Colette Aliman
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Colette Aliman is a creative researcher working within the fields of Design and Art. In 2017 she moved from New York City to attend the Contextual Design Masters at Design Academy Eindhoven, The Netherlands. After graduation, in 2019, she launched the platform: Sound-Office to explore the soundscapes that we and other species find ourselves in as a result of the industrial revolution. In 2020, Colette Aliman and Lauriane Heim began their design research platform studiocalh. Colette finds an intuitive relation to sound and translating complex scientific knowledge into design, a focus in all of her projects. Her topics of interest and research include multi-species-culture(s) sonic intersections, raising awareness of citizen’s choice in a product’s sound design, and speculative R&D in the future of the industrial revolution soundscapes. Her work advocates for the investigation of urban soundscapes through the methodology of intuitive recalibration.

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Contact
E-mail→emailcolette@gmail.com
Instagram→@colettealiman

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Sound-Office↘

Website→ sonicrecalibrationlab.com
E-mail→ info@sonicrecalibrationlab.com


The mechaphony (mecha- meaning mechanical and phony- meaning sound), the soundscape exuded from devices conceived since the industrial revolution, is a terminology to create a reference point to how we find ourselves in our sonic culture today. With the growth of the Industrial Revolution, humanity’s perception of sound continues to be re-evaluated. The relationship we have with our sonic surroundings is too heavily based on quantifiable means. What would happen if we detach our biases of sound and through experimental practices, redefine and prophesize to envision what our future sonic practices could be? From this question the Sonic Recalibration Lab was born, a platform for cross-modal experimentation in our current and future auditory perception within the mechaphony. The lab encourages collaborations and open for assignments.

Projects

Chapter Homeland ↓

In Homeland research is implemented within multi-species sonic cultures. Our planet is home. The vibrational force that we call sound ungulates and caresses every molecule in our home. How has the mechaphony morphed our sonic relations to other species-cultures sound spaces? Inspired by the Goethean practice of conscious-process-participation, we can extend this kind of holistic, participatory science into design thinking and implementation, to inspire nature-culture-nomos-abatement-engineers. We ask what is the role designers and engineers as tuners of the mechaphony?
The Mechaphony Publication

Chapter Prophetica ↓

Prophetica is a space to discover and implement speculative practices as a response to our reflections on the mechaphony. As mechanical technology may begin to resemble and assimilate into our ecologies, will the mechanized soundscape of the mechaphony have an expiration? Looking into the future, if the principles of bio-logic become a part of the design of technology, then there is a complexity that can be prophecised.

In parallel, we are in a moment in time where we have the flexibility to control the sounds that instruments of the mechaphony (devices and machines that find their genesis in the industrial revolution) exude. If the importance of the sound is inserted as a specification from the beginning during the engagement process between engineer and designer, we can then have the sounds of the mechaphony as not a waste by-product, but a sonic deposit that is aesthetic to its locality.

In development is a collaboration between the Sonic Recalibration Lab and Robert Drew (HEK OPS) to create a interactive platform to gather onomatopoeic language that the urban civilian would like to use to envision what the mechaphony could be. In research and development is an interface to create the objects of our future mechaphony, using an onomatopoeic catalogue, users can design the instruments of the future mechaphony by the method of reverse foley. Designing with the sound first, users play the role of engineer and designer to envision our future devices and machines.

PROGNOSIS (FM-000)

Chapter Muse ↓

Muse is a rotating material based research on how we interface with sound. The main focus is to unquantify our relationship to the mechaphony to discover other relational possibilities.

The Mechaphony

Studiocalh↘

E-mail→ infostudiocalh@gmail.com
Instagram→ @studiocalh


Lauriane Heim and Colette Aliman are two design researchers based in Rotterdam under the name studiocalh, their personal and collective work ranges between performative installations, publications, material, and field research. The duo’s motivation is to show how sound blurs boundaries and mediates the relationship between resistance and power. They find design research necessary within the sonic genre, as the development of our sonic sensibilities creates an alternative structural base to our visually dominated world. Thus they question the sonic borders of design and advocate sound as a material at the forefront of design methods.

Projects

Conversing Our Soundscapes of Fear
Soundscapes of Fear
Mutated Industry

News↘

Interview with 25AV
May 12 2023

Noam Youngrak Son and I were interviewed for 25AV audio visual competition for our project "Cook Quantitatively with Energy."
more info here
link to video

25AV with Noam Youngrak Son
May 10 2023

Noam Youngrak Son and I teamed up for the 25AV audio visual competition. Our project "Cook Quantitatively with Energy" was selected for a residency at iMAL in Brussels and will be performing our set in the coming fall at iMAL (Brussels), Zirka (Munich), and Triennale (Milan).
more info here
link to video

Sound-Office presentation at DDW22
October 27 2022

During Dutch Design Week I will be giving a presentation on what I have been doing during my one year Talent Development Grant from Stimuleringsfonds, at MU Hybrid Art House on October 27th at 13:30h.
more info here

Stimuleringsfonds presents Talent, Dancing with Trouble
Dutch Design Week 2022

During Dutch Design Week 2022, October 22-30, Stimuleringsfonds will be presenting a show of all the grant awardees for the Talent Development Grant at MU Hybrid Art House in Eindhoven.
more info here

Stimuleringsfonds feature video
2022

Excited to present a video feature from the Talent Development Grant from Stimuleringsfonds.
see video here

Fiber Festival 2022
June 18 2022

Excited to present a performance lecture "They'll Audiate Lilies Singing" at the Fiber Festival Conference on June 18, 2022
read more here

Sound Ecologies Fiber Festival 2021

Recently I participated in collaborative lab at the Fiber Festival Reassemble Part 2: Sound Ecologies Lab. During the week I collaborated with Gizem Senturk and Loden Rietveld as we prototyped our 8 channel installation: Things At The Same Time.
read more here
watch video here

Stimuleringsfonds Talent Development 2021-2022

Thankful to announce the Sonic Recalibration Lab recieved a year long funding from the Creative Industries Fund, NL. For the next year we will work on a a three part online publication with research focusing specifically on: urban noise, anthropomorphization of sound quantification and the sound paradoxes of green energy.
read more here

Exchange in Fragments Broadcast on Radio Stasis
2021

Through conversation, Sofia and Colette analyze and dissect the sonic elements from soundscapes, runway mixes and other music related to fashion affairs that explore world-building.
listen here

Episodes 1-4 of Conversing Our Soundscapes of Fear podcast

Now available for listening at
conversingfear.online

Re-FORMAT 2021
Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture, Hasselt, BE
February 20th, 2021

Along with the other FORMAT laureates, Studiocalh will be debuting our installation and podcast Conversing Our Soundscapes of Fear, a design research project generating links between academic research and sound design practices. It questions the relationship between sound and the spectrum of fear emotions such as distress, apprehension, and alertness. What can the action of listening tell us about our fears?
conversingfear.online

Stimuleringsfonds 2020

Studiocalh is happy to announce that Conversing Our Soundscapes of Fear will be co-funded by the Design Grant from The Creative Industries Funds, NL

FORMAT 2020
Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture, Hasselt, BE
October 21, 2020

Excited to announce Studiocalh’s participation in the talent development program FORMAT at Z33.
How can design and architecture encourage critical thinking? This question is at the heart of the new edition of FORMAT. During the lockdown period, the 8 laureates discussed the challenges for their practice and how to present them.

Dutch Design Week, What A Time To Be Alive 2020
Temporary Art Center, Eindhoven NL

Studiocalh presents Soundscapes of Fear during Dutch Design Week 2020
On October 20th we will have our panel: Sound Design and the Spectrum of Fear. This discussion will feature Studiocalh, Marylou, Toros Senan, and Karena Kalmbach. Watch Panel discussion video

Geodesign: COVID19
October 2020

Check out Studiocalh’s new sonic investigation into COVID-19 and pharmaceutical supply chains.
covid.geodesign.online/

Dutch Design Week, G19
October 2019

Sonic Recalibration Lab goes live this Dutch Design Week