In electronic music, there is room for movement and stillness, machine and organism, continuity and detention. Immersing into the world of music made between machines leads to understanding a network of sonic agents that goes through the devices, such as the creativity of those who design and assemble them, the ones performing them, and up to the listener, who is ultimately responsible for the experience.

Such a diversity of possibilities enriches electronic musical creation, often full of serendipity and surprise, where whoever plays the instrument transcends the mere control to take a more esoteric role, the one of a channel of sensations. Therefore, more than just playing, it is about becoming intimate with the machine, thereby going beyond the mere search for technical skills and creative methods to give prominence to listening skills and spiritual disposition: the inner journey, something that Hélène Vogelsinger, a French artist, singer, songwriter and sound designer whose sonic work expresses a deep search and spiritual adventure.

Vogelsinger began creating music as a child, first with her voice, tapes and the piano. After working with Ableton Live, she later finds her favourite means of expression in modular synthesisers without abandoning her voice, which often sneaks between the sequences of her machines. Her synthesisers are generally located on the ground, in natural spaces and abandoned places where she performs the pieces published in the prestigious modular house Modularfield.

Vogelsinger’s sound work is immersive and hypnotic. Inspired by a profound connection filled with a vast sonic palette in which his voice, field recordings and tons of harmonics are present, structured in complex loop sequences, where fascinating progressions, melodies and rhythmic patterns are developed. Often characterised by an absence of percussion and a network of pulses, notes and melodic lines that, between absorption and catharsis, take listening to unexpected places, full of contemplation and reminiscence. She presents her pieces as part of an inner journey reflected by sonic exploration. She says her ideal state of mind is when she is at peace, connected to her inner child, and completely grateful. Her music is woven with reiki, walks in nature, and contemplative processes. As she expresses in her album Contemplation (Modularfield, 2020), music is presented as a personal diary of sound waves created as a description of the internal worlds of the artist.

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