Dr. Raviv Ganchrow
Visiting Scholar
KG 5, Raum 319
Office hours: upon request / Sprechstunde: auf Anfrage
E-Mail: raviv.ganchrow[at]hu-berlin.de
Photo: Michelle Mantel
Bio:
Raviv Ganchrow researches the interdependencies of sound, locale, and hearing in dynamic circuits such as ocean acoustics, environmental infrasound, telluric currents and radio transmissions and focuses on the spatial operations and contextual interplay of manifest sounds. His ongoing project Whale Refractions, commenced at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg inherit (2024-25), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, addresses gaps between the historicity of sense perceptions and natural histories of sensory physiology through the example of mammalian adaptations to spatial hearing and sounding underwater. His practice-based approach includes residencies at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, commissioned radio works for national broadcasters (ORF, Deutschlandfunk Kultur) as well as site & context specific sound installations at numerous international festivals (Sonic Acts, Tuned City, TSONAMI Sound Art Festival, La Biennale di Venezia, Kontraste) and exhibitions (Ballroom Marfa, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, ZK/U, Dům umění and Slought gallery). He publishes, workshops, and lectures broadly on auditory contexts and sonic agency and is currently faculty at the Institute of Sonology, The Hague and Visiting Scholar at the Department of Transcultural Musicology, Institute of Musicology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Ganchrow received a doctorate from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), at the Borders & Territories research group (with the dissertation ‘Sound Operation Circuit: Terrestrial Oscillations and Dynamics of the Expanse’), his MSon degree from the Institute of Sonology, University of the Arts, The Hague (developing phased-array audio techniques) and a Bachelor of Architecture from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York (thesis on sonic architecture).
Research Interests:
> Spatial-contextual Sound
> Ocean Ambience
> Environmental Acoustics
> Materialities of Oscillation
> Sonic Attention
> Refractive-transductive Circuits
> Palaeoacoustics
> Telluric Currents
> Phased Array Techniques
Publications (selected):
Journal Articles
Ganchrow, R. (2021). Earth-Bound Sound: Oscillations of Hearing, Ocean, and Air. Theory & Event, 24(1), 67–116. https://doi.org/10.1353/tae.2021.0003
Ganchrow, R. (2009). Perspectives on Sound-Space: The Story of Acoustic Defense. Leonardo Music Journal, 19, 71–75. https://doi.org/10.1162/lmj.2009.19.71
Ganchrow, R. (2009). Hear and There: Notes on the Materiality of Sound. Oase Journal for Architecture, 78, 70–82.
Ganchrow, R. (2006). An Improbable Dimension. RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 49/50, 204–221.
Book chapters
Ganchrow, R. (2024). Sound’s Spatial-Material Circuitry. In J. Burry & E. Kate-Matthews (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to the Sound of Space(pp. 297-315). Routledge.
Ganchrow, R. (2023). Baku’s Sirens: Circuits of Industrious Attention. In P. Devens & E. Kerstens (Eds.), The Derailment of the Usual (pp. 70-71, 84-85, 98-113). Hématomes Éditions.
Ganchrow, R. (2016). Latent Landscapes. In Latent Image: Michaela Frühwirth (pp. 101-106). ROMA Publications.
Ganchrow, R. (2015). On Long-Wave Synthesis. In A. Altena, M. Belina, & L. van der Velden (Eds.), The Geologic Imagination (pp. 179-198). Sonic Acts Press.
Ganchrow, R. (2013). Fray. In A. Altena (Ed.), Sonic Acts XV 2013 The Dark Universe (pp. 118–131). Sonic Acts Press. https://ariealt.home.xs4all.nl/pdf/darkuniverse.pdf
Ganchrow, R. (2012). Shapes of Time: An Experiential Account of Sonic Spatiality. In M. Kloos, M. Spaan, & K. de Jong (Eds.), Music, space and architecture (pp. 141–145). Architectura & Natura.
Ganchrow, R. (2011). Crescents. In B. LaBelle & C. Martinho (Eds.), Site of sound: Of architecture and the ear (pp. 281-289). Errant bodies press.
Ganchrow, R. (2010). Phased Space. In L. J. Kavanaugh (Ed.), Chrono-topologies: Hybrid spatialities and multiple temporalities (pp. 179–193). Rodopi.
Ganchrow, R. (2010). Königsberg interrupted. In M. Schoonderbeek (Ed.), Border Conditions (pp. 380-387). Architectura & Natura.
Other publications, editorials and interviews
Ganchrow, R. (2024). Building Telluric. In Suchánek, Jiří (Ed.), Beyond the Sound (pp. 12–19). Dům umění města Brna, příspěvková organizace House of Arts Brno.
Ganchrow, R. (2023). Lightning Ellipse. Le Ball Theater. AA journal, L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui. Archipress Éditions. https://www.archipress-editions.fr/products/ball-theater-2023.
Ganchrow, R. & Wilson, A. (2019). Sound Attention: Raviv Ganchrow in Conversation With Ariane Wilson. In A. Wilson, Sound worlds from the body to the city: Listen! (pp. 171–204). Cambridge Scholars Publishing. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-2388-3
Ganchrow, R. (2010). Approaches to Space and Sound: Interview with Raviv Ganchrow. In A. Altena (Ed.), The Poetics of Space (pp. 33–50). Sonic Acts Press.
Ganchrow, R., Kursell, J., & Avidar, P. (2009). Editorial: Immersed. Sound and Architecture. Oase Journal for Architecture, 78, 70–82.
Ganchrow, R. (2008). Sound Material: Interview with Raviv Ganchrow. In A. Kockelkorn, D. Kleinlein, G. Pagels, & C. Stabenow (Eds.), Tuned City: Between Sound and Space Speculation (pp. 153–158). Kookbooks.
Installations and Radio Broadcasts (selected):
Solo Exhibitions and Commissioned Works
Weshaven Ground-Electric (2019). Site-specific installation, Singuhr Projects, ZK/U, Berlin, DE.
Agora Circuit (2019). Site-specific installation, Tuned City, Messene, GR.
Spark-gap (2019). Context-dependant installation, open studios, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE.
Reykjavik Circuit (2017). Context-dependant installation, Young Nordic Music Days, Reykjavík, IS.
Quarzbrecciakammer (2016). Context-dependant installation, Spectral Sounds, Innsbruck, AT.
Long-Wave Synthesis II (2015). Site-specific installation, Sonic Acts, Australiehaven, Amsterdam Harbor, NL.
Forecast for Shipping (2014). 10-channel sound installation, Alticom Mediatoren, Amsterdam, NL.
Long-Wave Synthesis I (2014). Site-specific installation, Dark Ecology, splint hangar, Kirkenes, NO.
Fray (2012). Site-specific installation, Kontraste, Wachau, AT.
Listening Subjects (2010). Installation, Rijksakademie Open, Amsterdam, NL.
Crescents (2010). Site-specific installation, Hydroplane Hanger, Baltic coast, Tallinn, EE.
Double Sway (2010). Site-specific installation, Academie van Bouwkunst, Amsterdam, NL.
Group Exhibitions and Commissioned Works
Erratic Boulder (2025), single channel video installation and 3-channel sound, TSONAMI Sound Art Festival, Valparaiso, CL.
Canine Conversation (2025). 2-channel sound installation, Tieranatomisches Theater (TA T) rear foyer, Humboldt University, Berlin, DE.
Spark Reach (2024). Sounds of Bethany, Bethanian 50th anniversary exhibition, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE.
Building Telluric (2024). 32-channel sound installation, Beyond the Sound, Dům umění města (Brno Art Museum), Brno, CZ.
Piped Overtones (2023). 4-channel sound installation, Sonic Islands (Terra Ignota), Liebig 12, Berlin, DE.
Lighting Ellipse (2023). 6-channel sound installation, Radio Utopia, French Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT.
Forecast for Shipping (2023). Single-channel video and 10-channel sound installation, Weaving Worlds, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL.
Chlorophyll-Ocean-Iron-Breath (2022). Video and 12-channel audio, Gas Exchanges & The Right to Breathe, Slought gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
Agora Circuit (2020). 2-channel audio, Audiosphere: Sound Experimentation 1980-2020, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Cur. Francisco López, Madrid, ES.
Earth-Ionosphere-Floodwater (2019). Installation/performance, Concert l'Institut de Sonologie, GRM Multiphonies, AKOUSMA, Paris, FR.
Quartz Attention (2018). Custom quartz transducers, Hyperobjects, curated by Laura Copelin & Timothy Morton, Ballroom Marfa, Texas, USA.
LGate_RLamppost (2014). Sound projection, Errant Bodies project space, Berlin, DE.
Radio Plays Itself (2013). Installation, Studio: When Electrified Architecture Becomes Aether, STEIM, Amsterdam, NL.
Radio Transmissions (Premiere)
Forecast for Shipping (2025), Radio Art Hour: Water Navigation, Wave Farm, New York, USA.
Navigating Radiales (2025). Together with Carsten Stabenow, Deutschlandradio Kultur & Cashmere Radio, Berlin, DE.
Earth-Ionosphere-Floodwater (2019). Musique France, L'Expérimentale, Paris, FR.
Knallfunken (2019). Deutschlandradio Kultur, Berlin, DE.
Radio Plays Itself (2013). Kunstradio, ORF (Austrian National Radio), Vienna, AT.
Crescents (2013). Memorabilia: Collecting Sounds, Radio Web MACBA, Barcelona, ES.