Serge Bulat

What began with voice, piano, and radio slowly expanded into sound, performance, field recording, DJing, installation, and systems of listening. Projects like Inkblot, Wurroom, Cornershop, Phonomundi, and Idle Labor move through perception, migration, psychology, and embodiment.

And that’s Malta, for now. 🇲🇹🎆🔔 A month of recording, listening, research, bells, archives, performances, festas, sweating, and inspiration. I’m leaving with a lot of material - and even more to process. Thank you, Malta. The stories live on. Stay tuned.

Before Between Harbours looked and sounded like anything, there was a lot of experimenting. Hours of listening, testing, changing things in my head & in space. Bells, harbor, field recording, archives, movement, stage presence, music. A year to take shape. A month to arrive at.

A few moments from Between Harbours at @SpazjuKreattiv last Friday. A month of research, recording, conversations, archives, bell towers, harbours, rehearsals, and listening came together in one evening. Thank you to everyone who came and spent time with the work. More to come.

If someone had told me that one day I would ring bells by Barigozzi and Cauchi, I probably wouldn’t have believed them. And yet, here I am. 🇲🇹 instagram.com/p/DcOM0gTDAYB/…

Get to know about my project happening in Malta this month. Event August 28th, 6:30pmm Valetta. Come by! @spazjukreattiv instagram.com/reel/DcHB35gtE…

Recent conversation with Christina Ruf for Running Present column @MusicExportAT & mica - music austria around listening, systems, movement, and space between music, sound, and presence. Interesting to notice how differently the work behaves once spoken about. #artistinterviews

From a period of searching around new work. I was still thinking through music, composition, and sound, but something else slowly started entering the process too: body, gesture, tension, presence. Not a departure per se, more like an expansion of language. #performanceart

Beyond walls, everything opens again. Toward river, distance, crossings, and things that continue moving long after history settles into stone. One event across a border alters daily life somewhere else almost immediately. Listening also means listening to what passes through.

Everything shifts once you step inside. At Soroca Fortress, memory meets present through sound. You take a step - stone answers. Fast, slow, delayed. Silence is never empty. You think you know a place. Listening proves otherwise. More to follow. #FieldRecording #Soroca #Moldova

Returning to Soroca Fortress years later with microphones instead of memory alone. A place known since childhood, now heard differently: stone, wind, distance, resonance. Some places remain engraved in the body. More from inside soon. #FieldRecording #Moldova #Soroca

A temporary system of people, practices, and shared time. Grateful for everyone who shaped these weeks - the conversations, the presence, the gestures. #artistresidency #vienna

Short crossings continued. A day in Győr - smaller in scale, but more concentrated. Moving without direction. Letting details surface. Shifting between observation and being. Not quite a visitor, not quite passing through. A place that unfolds if you give it time? #Győr

Idle Labor as seen from outside the room. Distance. Glass. Perspective. Performance work often looks still from afar, but inside the body time stretches, contracts, and reorganizes itself. The simplest gesture becomes the longest one. Photo by Georg Weckwerth / TONSPUR

A short crossing during the residency. Between happenings in Vienna, I spent a day in Bratislava: listening, observing, and letting a different landscape shape rhythm of the day. Snow above the city, trains along the Danube, quiet streets and brief field recording along the way.

Studio visit with Karlheinz Essl in Albertina Klosterneuburg. We spoke about where music ends and sound begins - and whether composition, performance, and musicality still matter once curiosity takes over. Two private modular synth performances, existing only in that moment.

Before the work becomes visible, it exists as structure, timing, and trust. Rehearsals. Adjusting distances between bodies, machines, and sound. Presence becomes labor. Idle Labor: Artist / Product MuseumsQuartier Vienna #BehindTheScenes #IdleLabor #viennART