06 Feb 2026
Soundscape | Eventless Plot
Essayby Eventless Plot
Becoming part of a landscape
This composition approaches the idea of landscape as a subjective and evolving construct, shaped through sensory experience rather than fixed representation. A landscape is not given in advance; it emerges through perception, memory, and duration, as well as the dynamic relationship between sound and attention. In this sense, the soundscape does not describe a place, but establishes conditions in which a landscape can be gradually inhabited through listening.
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Extended, processed flute drones form a continuous sonic plane, within which finer electronic details unfold across different temporal scales. These simultaneous durations invite a mode of listening that shifts between immersion and peripheral awareness, countering the demand for constant focus and rapid consumption characteristic of digital environments. Over time, sound replaces visual reference, becoming the primary means through which space is apprehended.
Piano sounds appear as a recurring and stable point of reference within the piece, traversing both denser and quieter passages. Rather than functioning as an expressive foreground, they contribute to a sense of continuity across changing sonic conditions. In the more reduced central section, silence becomes structural, allowing the listener to perceive the weight of time itself rather than the succession of events. This transition does not operate as a dramatic contrast, but as a recalibration of attention—a shift in how presence and absence are experienced.
In the context of a website, this soundscape functions as a discreet intervention. It neither illustrates content nor withdraws into neutrality. Instead, it proposes a sonic environment in which continuity and fragmentation, stability and latent tension, coexist. By resisting acceleration and privileging duration, the work invites a form of listening aligned with wandering rather than navigation, allowing the listener to become part of the landscape rather than merely observing it.
Meaning remains open and contingent upon the listener’s willingness to engage. The soundscape offers no fixed narrative or image; it establishes a temporal field in which listening may slow down, linger, or drift—allowing time itself to emerge as the primary material of the experience.
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The Soundscape section is coordinated by Fernando José Pereira
BIOGRAPHY
Eventless Plot were formed in 2002 in Thessaloniki. Borrowing elements from different genres and aesthetics to build their own hybrid of sound, while exhibiting great attention to sonic details in different forms of experimentalism. They use a variety of instruments, analogue sources, field recordings and Max/MSP patches, while incorporating musical segments through collaborations with various musicians to realise their compositions. Eventless Plot are working on sound design and composition for art installations, films and dance projects and have released in some of the most acknowledged labels around the world including Another Timbre (UK), Edition Wandelweiser (GER), Dinzu Artefacts (USA), Moving Furniture Contemporary Series (NL), Tsss Tapes (IT), Granny Records (GR), Dasa Tapes (GR) and Discreet Archive (UK) among others. Moreover, they have performed live in many festivals and venues in Greece and abroad.
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