London-based sound artist, experimental musician and researcher David Lorenzo Sappa incorporates DIY kinetic and interactive sound objects, improvisation, field recordings, oral histories and quantum listening into his work. With an interest in sound for its tactile, textural and somatic qualities, Sappa’s projects consider sound as modes for interrelatedness and interplay, exploring dynamics between our social, psychological and material entanglements within different environments.
For his hcmf// debut, David featured Foreshores Rising as part of the 2024 shorts programme: a set of kinetic and non-kinetic sound objects comprised of items collected from the shores of the river Thames (old iron nails, hooks and shrapnel, clay shards, pipe stems and bulbs, driftwood and glass), alongside experimental field recordings taken on location of these finds, diffusing and resonating from within the materials themselves. The set of objects formed an improvisational environment inspired by the eerie collisions of time and asymmetries of abundance that unfurl amidst these dockland and river spaces. Working through material memories, animism and non-linear confluent timelines (how the past casts spectres on our present), this performance sought to re-animate these pasts physically through haunted material assemblages, movement and sound.