The sound sculptures of PureH are installations. The layers stretch out, suggesting the formation of a nature unfolding before your eyes. It is the film of a surrounding reality, a sublimation: the film unrolls as you walk, as you travel.

The sound sculptures of PureH are installations. The layers stretch out, suggesting the formation of a nature unfolding before your eyes. It is the film of a surrounding reality, a sublimation: the film unrolls as you walk, as you travel. The sound of waves takes over the entire ending of the opening track (Paracusia), as if a horizon were opening before you after a long nocturnal journey.

Slovenian artist Simon Šerc’s 2025 presentation moves through the dual prism of space and time. With gentle oscillations, this ambient craftwork shapes the presence of nature in our lives. Listen to it. The sound of waves returns on Slumber: perhaps you are on a small dock, rowing. Birds make their presence known on the superb Tetragram, a framework for an imagined cycle of existence.

PureH works through textural layering, but an organic, expressive percussion—subtly mixed and played by Vili Žigon—restores a muscular, physical fiber to the sound. This physical dimension is deliberately sought and recurs throughout the work. At times, its materialization flirts with trip-hop (Tasukete features sinuous basslines and an aqueous beat).

Šerc creates intimate music that simultaneously references the meta—the supreme dimension of the elements—while immersing us in the collective drama of environmental degradation (Polynya explicitly addresses the theme of melting ice). We are all part of biodiversity; and in this wordless music lies a concrete and profound personal inquiry into the meaning we give to our relationship with that which inherently surpasses us. That which will outlive us.

Clearly, this relationship does not consciously register in our sense of belonging to a greater whole. Do humans ever break free from the bubble of their desires? We are, in the words of chemist Jean-Emmanuel Gilbert, addicted to comfort. And in the music of PureH, which sketches the magnificence of the surrounding world, one finds the seconds of a night that falls—slowly or in jolts—upon our insatiable desires: our thirst, our appetites, our carefreeness.

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