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Tuesday, December 9th BLU is happy to present “Endless Song”, an audio-video work by Brett Sroka, American composer, trombonist and interdisciplinary artist whose practice merges electronic music, technology and contemporary art. Endless Song (2023) is the result of over three years of research in the Inagh Valley of Western Ireland. Sroka gathered audio and video field recordings, listening sessions, sonic meditations and conversations on listening with local community, ecologists and archaeologists. This video and sound documentation guides us through a listening and visual journey that invites us to experience a sonic environment that broadens our perspective on what it means to listen.

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Via Giuseppe Luosi 30, Milan, Italy
On view 09.12 → 20.12.2025

Curated by Annarosa Spina

Pasaj at Platforms Independent Art Fair

I was part of “Tipex Me Tipex You Word Breaks Through Peek a Boo”, at Platforms Project independent art fair in Athens, Greece from October 9–12 curated by Zeynep Oktay and Selin Atik from PASAJ

“Tip-Ex me, Tip-Ex you, Words break through, peek-a-boo,” is a collective act where visitors will become participants.

A Collective Act of Becoming
Not an elimination, this is a response.
Covering words with grey paint.
Muting the chants, erasing the names, flattening the anger…
But the wall remembers.
Every layer of grey becomes part of what comes next.
Words reappear.
People reappear.
Can you hear their voices?
Because grey paint can only cover it cannot silence.

Works from my orthographic poems series were included. Many thanks to everyone who made it possible 💙

including the artists:
@_abdullahguler  @ribbung  @aslidinc  @aysuarican  @barenabianca  @br1_br1  @srokasonic  @burakkabadayi_  @can.memisogullari  @canavar.ca  @dilruba.balak  @eduardo_cruces  @simonayhan  @scale_appropriate @ezgiaysever_art @hapetzeder @filiprahimhansson  @giorgiocaione  @gozde_ju  @gunseli.baki  @hilalcan.studio  @evrimkavcar  @berntssonjenny  @kaethewenzel  @lucian.brb  @truuuuuuuuuuuuc @majidamim  @fariji_mohamed_  @nergizyesil @qose_redina  @sigrids_stue  @secil.yaylali  @hallusensification  @syndicateofcreatures  @serifeaslanyavasca  @thinktanger  @va.desir @meyrignacvincent

I’m thrilled to have been named an American Scandinavian Foundation Fellow for 2025/26. Later this year I’ll return to Finland after 11 years to reconvene my collaboration with Rauno Nieminen, who is a renowned scholar, luthier and performer of medieval instruments from northern Europe. When I first met Rauno he demonstrated one of the many Kanteles (a tabletop string instrument) he had built and explained its importance as the national instrument of Finland and its place in the Kalevala mythology as the instrument played by the deity Väinämöinen to create the world, and then he said to me:

“…so it will be important to destroy it.”

haha, I knew I had met a kindred spirit.…
Our collaboration began at the Arteles creative center in Haukijärvi, Finland in 2014, and this photo is from our last performance, at the Galway Jazz Festival in 2017, when Alannah Robins brought us back together at Interface Inagh in Connemara, Ireland.

Brett Sroka - Spectral Variations with Pasaj Istanbul opens, Thursday May 15, 2025, 6pm at the historic Barin Han Boyacı Ahmet Sokak No:4, Binbirdirek Mahallesi, Çemberlitaş
This is my first solo exhibition, with my first works of sculpture ‘resonance no. 1-7 (seven variations on seven ratios of the harmonic series), a video of Baris Buyukyildirim performing five compositions for piano ‘the imperfection etudes (five studies on the ‘perfect’ fifth), and a MaxMSP generated sound installation ‘spectral variations on ‘The Well Tempered Clavier by Johann Sebastian Bach’

Brett Sroka

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Spectral Variations at Pasaj Istanbul