Salomé Voegelin is a Swiss artist and writer based in London. She is concerned with the practice and philosophy of sound. Her work investigates truth, reference and fiction of identity and place through sonic documents and narratives. Most recently she was commissioned to produce an urban pod-cast for RADAR in Loughborough, UK, and to realise, in collaboration with artist and writer David Mollin, a site-specific work for the Bregenz Kunstverein, Magazin 4, Austria.
Her interest focuses on the voice and how it tells its own truth. Her work "Barry Echo" has been included in Playing with Words, the Spoken Word in Artistic Practice, Cathy Lane ed., UK, CRiSAP and RGAP, Cornerhouse Publication, 2008, and she is the curator of Clickanywhere, www.clickanywhere.crisap.org - an online exhibition of spoken and written work. Apart from using the voice as narrative and compositional strategies, Voegelin is also interested in the way the sonic experience meets written communication. She writes a regular blog, soundwords.tumblr.com – that experiments with writing sound without using it as attribute but treating it as a verb in the position of the substantive.
In October 2009, she co-organised and chaired an international workshop on 'Audio Art on the Radio' at The Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich, Switzerland. She is currently, in collaboration with David Mollin, producing a book of interviews, ‘Air, online and site: extended platforms for radio art’, investigating the current use and potential of FM, DAB, the internet and the gallery site as extended platforms for what conventionally could be understood as radio art.
Her book ‘Listening to Noise and Silence: towards a Philosophy of Sound Art ‘was published by Continuum Press, NY, in May 2010. The book engages with the emerging practice of sound art and the concurrent development of a discourse and theory of sound. It seeks to immerse the reader in concepts of listening to sound artwork and the everyday acoustic environment, to establish an aesthetics and philosophy of sound and promoting the notion of a sonic sensibility. Voegelin is currently developing this research by considering the possibilities of modal logic and possible world theories for the critical theorisation of music, the acoustic environment and sound art works.
Voegelin completed a PhD in visual arts at Goldsmiths College University of London in 2004, and currently works as a senior lecturer and course director of the MA Sound Arts at the London College of Communication.