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Victor Arul : Associate Artist

My compositions explore themes of excess. I am fascinated with how profusion generates networked complexity. The ‘pragmatic redundance’ which is necessitated by overflow captivates me; the notion that this ‘redundance’ can be a multifarious vehicle for expression especially exhilarates me.

Artist website: http://www.victorarul.xyz

Victor Arul (b. 2000) is a sound and media artist influenced by concepts of overflow, miscellany, and networked relation. He is enamoured by the ways in which self-derived systems can be pushed to their axiomatic limits. Specifically, he is interested in such strained systems which involve multifaceted and quasi-independent forces interacting with each other and contributing to a composite entity. The crystallising of interactive networks between such forces is what Victor finds most exciting. Stylistically, he is concerned with establishing antipodal relationships between sound entities, specifically doing so in ways which correspond to his overly simplistic (and oft-deemed lousy) sense of humour.

Recent projects include pieces for the France-based Collective Lovemusic, and the Brazil-based cellist William Teixeira. Other groups and artists he has worked with include the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Line Upon Line Percussion, Ensemble Recherche, Naoko Uemoto, Ashley Smith, and Jonathan Fitzgerald. Some awards that he has received for his work include a Marten Bequest Scholarship, a Bendat Scholarship, a Schenberg Fellowship, the Blodgett Composition Prize, and various travelling fellowships from Harvard University.

Victor is currently studying for a Doctor of Philosophy at Harvard University under Chaya Czernowin and Hans Tutschku. He previously received a Bachelor of Music (Hons.) from the University of Melbourne under Elliott Gyger, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Australia under James Ledger. Other teachers he has had the privilege of receiving guidance from include Georg Friedrich Haas, Olivia Davies, Christopher Tonkin, Tim Dargaville, Miriama Young, Stuart Greenbaum, Melody Eötvös, and Iain Grandage. He has also participated in various training programs including those hosted by Ensemble Offspring, Halcyon, the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, the Australian Youth Orchestra, and the Perth International Arts Festival. Aside from the aforementioned universities, Victor has also discussed his music at Stanford University and Boston University.

Some of Victor's recent and current projects involve his own visual art, including generative programming, video, and lighting. Electroacoustic improvisation is also a part of Victor's practice - in which he enjoys the use of creative coding and spatialisation. Aside from his compositional work, Victor is keenly interested in musicology - he has presented his research at the Musicology Society of Australia and in 2023 he will present papers at conferences in Canada and Italy. Victor also studies philosophy at Harvard University, an endeavour which influences his compositional work. Other activities Victor undertakes include teaching, engraving, arranging, and amateur programming.


Victor Arul — current to July 2023