Sound Atlas

Sound Atlas reimagines the space as a tactile field where components of THEFENCE — invite direct touch.

Clemens Poole and Pake transform sounds, mimicking living reeds and tires into resonant synths; Pake’s original tape recorder from 1973 is the key element in this process. Kyivpastrans loops echo drone-buzzed sound compositions, their low-fi textures mingling with every movement.

Here, architecture without architects becomes music without musicians: heritage meets emergency improvisation as visitors activate signals of care and resistance through movement.

The drumbeat is the oldest vernacular—the rhythm that unified workers in the fields during harvest, synchronizing bodies in collective labor. Music of protest and unification carries this ancient pulse: the sound of people moving together, building together, defending together. Like the fence that marks “this is mine, this is ours,” rhythm marks presence, solidarity, refusal – performed by Bögdana Ko$mina.

In wars, the most tender act—building—becomes the most urgent, the most political. Touch

to listen; move to compose; let shared presence turn debris into common home.

THEFENCE: Vernacular Hardcore – support rebuilding efforts by local communities through the horizontal power of unification — heritage meeting emergency, one gesture at a time, by Dr. Inna Budzynska & Andriy Igorovich.

#re_size_russia! #thefence #border #territory #protection #SelfFreeReBuild

Participating artists/performers:

With generous sound support and participation from sound artists: Clemens Poole — Pake — rapper and producer based in Vienna & Self-free-re-bulding

Christoph Pakesch aka Pake, born in Vienna, is a musician, producer, as well as Rapper. With a special interest in technology, he continuously transforms live recordings into hypnotic soundscapes through the use of original tape electronics (from 1973).

Clemens Poole is a US American artist, musician, and curator. His work has focused on the Ukrainian context since 2014, and he has been based in Kyiv fulltime since 2019. Since the start of russia’s full-scale invasion, his practice has closely followed the rise in noise and experimental music in Ukraine. He is the founder of the DIY cassette label Kyivpastrans Records. He frequently organizes noise music-related events and projects, and performs live under various names. https://kyivpastrans.bandcamp.com/