Sound Fiction
Matan Daskal & Tom Love
Sound Fiction is an immersive concert-installation for musicians and sculpted loudspeakers. The work explores, through artistic, design, and scientific means, the relationship between an ensemble of live musicians and an ensemble of speakers, and how their spatial distribution affects the audience’s psychoacoustic perception. A speaker is like a chameleon: the visible box that produces sound does not reveal the sound that is about to emerge from it. With the first sound waves, it exposes the vibrations of the composition and transforms its character according to the music
The process was accompanied by a scientific dialogue with Dr. Lior Arbel
THURSDAY | NOV 13 | 19:30 & 22:00
Duration: 1 hour
At the end of the first show there will be a guided discussion with the artist and the scientist.
Location: The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel aviv University (~10 minutes walk from the museum)
Composition: Matan Daskal | Space design: Tom Love
Musicians from Castle in Time Orchestra: Drums: Haggai Fershtman | Percussion: Shalev Ne’eman | Synthesizer: Matan Daskal, Milton Michaelie | Vibraphone: Shalev Koloditsky
Technical manager: Maor Paz | Graphic designer: Dar Laor
Supported by Mifal Hapais, the Ministry of Culture, and the Association of Multidisciplinary Art.
About the Creators
Matan Daskal is a composer, artistic director, and conductor of Castle in Time Orchestra. Composed for NDT 2, AXIS Dance Company, Johannes Wieland Company, NSP 2, Gothenburg Dance Company, Heymann Brothers films, and more. A former dancer with Batsheva Dance Company and Yasmeen Godder Dance Group, he has received grants from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Rabinovich Foundation, and Siday scholarship for musical creativity. He holds a BA in composition and music education and is CEO of the Association of Multidisciplinary Art.
Tom Love (M.Des) is an artist, designer, and art director, and founder of Love Studio (2014), specializing in spatial design for public and private spaces. He holds a B.Des from HIT and an M.Des from Bezalel. His work spans stage and spatial design, installation, performance, and visual arts, exploring nature–technology intersections. Through light, space, and material, his projects create immersive sensory experiences, engaging viewers through movement, temporal shifts, and transitions between day and night.
Dr. Lior Arbel is a researcher in the field of music technology and an electrical engineer. He is currently a research fellow at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ben-Gurion University. His research focuses on new musical instruments, music and audio applications, algorithms, and music software, employing a wide range of methods—from cutting wine glasses to signal processing and machine learning. In his current work, Arbel is concentrating on the research of musical instruments for musicians with disabilities. A resident of Hof HaCarmel, he is married to Lena and the father of Noam and Tom. He enjoys reading and trail running, and is a hopeless chocolate and coffee addict.
