On 1 February 2026 Patrick Bossink, Hans de Wolf and Jeroen Huisman performed their primordial soup sound installation. The event took place in Patricks house in the middle of the neighborhood Lombok in Utrecht (NL), during the festival Peeking At The Neighbors (Gluren Bij De Buren).
8 different sound sources merged into a soft spatial ambience, in which Patrick, Hans and Jeroen acted as Sound Jockeys, resulting in a calming and hypnotic atmosphere at the same time.
Immediately after entering the house, the public was ordered to wipe their feet on the doormat, which was audibly amplified and delayed via contact microphones (Hans).
Once up the stairs, the audience entered a room with a diverse sound, but balanced in such a way that you had to investigate with your ears to find out where it was coming from.
The actual primordial soup was contained in three glass "Dame Jeanne" bottles containing fermenting liquids with airlocks. The sound of the fermentation process triggered electronic effects (Patrick, Hans).
In addition, delayed bird sounds could be heard from the Birding Apparatus installation, which attempts to reproduce dinosaur sounds (Jeroen).
On the other side of the room, the Nature Receiver installation (Jeroen) reproduced sounds from tropical rainforests, balanced with static noise from an AM receiver next to it.
And, last but not least, Patrick compiled a digital echo well which recorded the sound in the room and added an extra layer of sound.
Some videos made by visitors:
a sneak preview of ''Birding Apparatus''
the entrance of the primordial soup sound installation
sneak preview of ''Nature Receiver''
the primordial soup with fermenting sounds
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