I am currently working furiously on my first solo exhibition. For this, I am making four sound installations—a foolish endeavor, if you ask me now, for one sound installation is already too venturesome!

Seriously, though, I am enjoying this process very much. I have always envied visual artists who—not all, though—can touch their materials at hand. Being an electroacoustic composer who exerts all his care to ‘sculpt’ his sounds, I have often felt that the relationship I have with sounds is paradoxical, though it makes everything interesting for its own sake.

But the desire to get in touch with the materials, to make something visible, touchable, and presentable has always been in my thought while I am composing.

That was mainly the reason, I think, why I decided to do this show. Though I have done some sound installations, in collaboration with my wife, I am at best a learner of this practice. And how much did I learn from this process!

While working on these installations, I become keenly aware of my nature more than I do while composing. The two processes are similar in some senses, but millions apart in their finer details—which make everything different and which I think I like very much. I get my hands dirty, smell the burning solder, make something out of materials that were not meant to be used that way, and experience what I have created the way I have (and have not!!) imagined!

This is a (very) short text that I have written for the show.