Hagai Izenberg | Sound Art

Selected Works

My experimental work involves field recordings together with radio broadcasting, bringing every day sounds we often pass by, or hear involuntarily. I also produces a radio art show called Radio Concrete broadcasted on Resonance Extra (UK).

Con.Text

New piece commissioned by Tzlil Meudcan Festival, July 2023 Tel-Aviv.
Con Text delves into the hidden potential of text and sound, as well as the musical qualities of language. It explores how they can be manipulated, distorted, and misplaced.

Hypothetical Moon

Hypothetical Moon is a sound installation created for Meteor festival and hidden on a tree on the road between the main music stages of the festival.
Composed using synthesizers, field and hydrophone recordings and shortwave radio - the piece is a soundtrack occurring on a hypothetical moon, a planet whose existence is yet proven.

Architecture is Frozen Music

Collaboration with video artist Laure Catugier during her residency in Liebling House, Tel-Aviv.
An ongoing project which examines the functionality of modernist architecture in the city and researches on the global standardization of construction.

Otherscapes

Otherscapes is a live collaboration between Dani Wiliamson and Hagai Izenberg. Light itself is a powerful tool, which when combined with sound, can transform and create new spaces.

Projected images of various environments and live video mix with fresh raw sound materials including field recordings of our everyday routine, samples and loops from tv & radio, news editions and advertisements, to create new sonic and visual landscapes.

Microwave and 4 Speakers

Microwave and 4 Speakers is a composition created during a 2 weeks residency at the Israeli center for digital art. It comprises of sounds that we spontaneously and unintentionally hear every day including field recordings, radio sampling and close environment.

Chronicles

Chronicles is a weekly format of works that traces the sounds and happenings on a weekly basis and compress them to 4-5 minutes of sonic experience. It comprises of 6 episodes and was created specifically for the radio program Radio-Art by Meira Asher in Kol-Hacampus 106fm (complete episodes).

24 Hours

24 Hours is a piece that encapsulates the radio news editions that are broadcasted here in Israel every hour all day long. It takes 24 consecutive news editions of one specific day where an extreme event called the "Hebron shooting incident" occurred and attempts to show how the story evolves during that day on the news and to explore the contradiction between the violence and other daily events that were reported during that day.

Info

Hagai is a sound artist, composer and musician and a founder member of the electronic band Rendezvous. Born in 1978, he's based in Israel.

His experimental work focuses on sounds we are exposed to every day in the public and domestic spheres, often in passing or involuntary.

He makes use of field recordings, amplifed objects, custom made vinyls and synthesizers to create live Musique concrète soundscapes in different art and musical projects.

He performs regularly in Israel and in Europe, playing live in festivals, art and music events and doing sound installations. His pieces are played in radio shows such as Late Junction (BBC 3), Framework radio, Radiophrenia etc. More info and CV.

He also produces a radio art show called Radio Concrete broadcasted monthly on Resonance Extra (UK), , Radio Manobras (PT), WGXC (NY), and Halas (ISR).

He received early musical education studying organ and piano and later enrolled to study music at Rimon - School of Jazz and Contemporary music which has led him to explore and play synthesizers with Rendezvous.

Further interest in art and sound has led him to study painting, photography and participate in Musrara's Experimental music studies, which set out his journey to create art, explore sound and define his own unique moodscapes.

Radio Concrete

Radio Concrete is a monthly radio show and an ongoing experimental project which deals with sounds that we are exposed to every day in the public and domestic spheres, often in passing or involuntarily. Listen to Radio Concrete.

Fresh raw materials including field recordings of our everyday routine, samples and loops from tv & radio, news editions and advertisements are all gathered on a regular basis and then mixed together on live radio broadcasting.

It has been played live in all kinds of venues and also got a regular spot on Resonance Extra (UK), Radio Manobras (ITA), WGXC (US) and on Halas.am (ISR).

Chronicles

Chronicles is a project created specifically for the radio program Radio-Art by Meira Asher in Kol-Hacampus 106fm.

It is a weekly format of works that attempt to trace the sounds and happenings on a weekly basis and compress them to 4-5 minutes of sonic experience.

Fresh raw materials were collected every week including field recordings, sampled radio, toys, synthesizers and recordings sent by the listeners of this program.

Music

Electronic music duo Hagai Izenberg and Itai Simon released a few singles and albums vis Rough Trade and Moot Records as Rendezvous.

Rendezvous nods its hat to a wide range of influences – the early electro pioneers, classic progressive rock and chillwave; it also brings to mind the likes of Kraftwerk, Underworld and Air.

It's major release to date is Another Round Please where it's most noticable single The Murf had major exposure in the UK and US:

Videos

Videos from selected projects and live concerts:

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