Jonathan Chaim Reus
He/ Him — US/NL
Sunday 19 June — murmur
Jonathan Chaim Reus is a transmedia artist and musician known for his use of expanded digital instrumentation in live, theatrical and virtual (online) contexts. He has done extensive artistic research relating to musical instrument heritages and how concepts of tradition and folk art become transformed through technological change.
His current work investigates the relationships between human and artificial voice. How can a human voice, an embodied part of what you might consider "you", become unhinged and explored through the combination of music and speech technologies? He is actively working on creating an extended voice dataset and using this process to explore what his own voice is. Jonathan recently won the 2022 Kontinuum call for generative radio at CTM Festival. Exploring intergenerational thinking and voice synthesis, his project »In Search of Good Ancestors / Ahnen in Arbeit« modulates a singular audio channel over a period of one year, also airing whenever there is a gap in radio programming on Germany’s national broadcasting service, Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
Jonathan Chaim Reus is a co-founder of the instrument inventors initiative [iii] in the Hague and Netherlands Coding Live [nl_cl], and is an affiliate of the Intelligent Instruments Lab (Reykjavik) and the Sussex Humanities Lab (Brighton).
