Noah Berrie

In collaboration Angelica Jopling, Not Here was a sound-piece of intertwining, circular narratives emanating from found objects dispersed in space.

This work contends with human absence inspired by walks around an empty city mid-COVID. Fourteen disembodied voices emerge from objects, all in conversation. The listener can navigate the space and eavesdrop. The meaning gradually strips away over time as the words seem to move just beyond the perceptual line of comprehension. How does sound reverberate in ways we cannot hear?

“Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.” – Pablo Neruda

Noah Berrie is a London-based sound artist, composer, and classically-trained violinist working with installation, video, and performance. Berrie is currently an artist-in-residence at Alexander McQueen’s Sarabande Foundation (2023-2024) and completed his MA at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) in 2022. He has been in residence at Audium Theatre of Sound in San Francisco and has performed internationally across the US, Mexico, France, Ireland, and the UK.