Ferdinand is interested in approaching listening as an active conditions, a creative and contingent tool for states of magnified presence and self-experience. Much of his work progressively zooms into rigorously reduced sonic material and thereby uncovers our interaction with sounds – observing ourselves observing, listening to ourselves listening.
His solo project Do You Hear What I Hear? is a performance-installation utilizing psychoacoustics and the experience of space via listening with a self-built instrument made of multiple air-pressure machines, tubes, and melodicas.
Since 2023 he hosts the regular Sounding Listening Sessions where communal listening practices are explored.
Interviews
15 Questions (2025)
Another Timbre (2025)
Off Shelf (2025)