An experimental composer and artist working between Marseille and Rotterdam, Clara de Asís focuses on the material and perceptual qualities of sound, approaching composition as an open-ended, process-based inquiry. Across two residency periods (5–8 July and 2–6 September 2025), she will develop a new work titled Infinity This Time, co-commissioned with Festival Archipel as part of the Listening Room programme for the Sonic Acts Biennial 2026.

Created with a combination of analogue electronics and acoustic sound sources, Infinity This Time explores how seemingly discrete sonic materials can shape, reflect, and transform one another. At the core of the piece is a collection of bells gathered from flea markets across Europe, whose specific resonant frequencies inform a set of hybrid tuning systems that shape the compositional structure. De Asís approaches these interactions as opportunities for perceptual co-creation – where tuning, overtones, and spatial diffusion lead to a heightened awareness of how sound organises and unsettles time.

Her minimalist sensibility draws from early electronic music pioneers – most notably Daphne Oram – and engages with repetition and subtle variation as tools to activate listening and shift perception. By allowing sonic elements to unfold and intertwine gradually, her work creates immersive environments that reflect on temporality, resonance, and embodied attention.

Developed across both the Sonic Acts Spatial Sound Studio in Rotterdam and in partnership with Archipel Festival, the work continues de Asís’s long-standing engagement with the physical and temporal dynamics of sound.