Axel Kolb

A hot-air balloon collides with a spire in a distorted
space; a ship is trapped in polar ice and drifts through
exhausted identifications; the creaking of wooden
planks, the swinging of a lamp. The emphasis shifts
from one surface to another. 

These arrangements are
suspended, insisting on continuity without resolution.
Listening is part of the compositional process: the
listener is not just a receiver, but part of the spatial
configuration. Sound, space and perception are
vectors that make up the compositional process.  They
delineate the topology of form over time –
reconfigurations that continually alter its appearance
and destabilise coherence. 

A formative process in
which the void in the chain of meaning is not resting.
A fragmented remnant of form. Neither the whole nor
the fragment is operational. Fragmentation is a state
of continuous non-fulfilment and the listener
resonates and moves within it. 

These cartographic
constructions are unresolved spatial relations.
Relations are not organised, but are the action of
compositional practice, undermined by its structures.
Figures drift between physical resonance and
conceptual opacity in fictional projections. 

In the
absence of a conclusion, the compositional practice
withdraws and is registered as folding, misaligning,
and disarticulating rather than expressing. 

Sound as
an unattainable experience, where presence, relation
and legibility do not coincide and fragmentation is not
the result. The void within the chain of meaning
configures itself as an interruption, where linearity
frays and connection is opaque and buried beneath.