Daniel Maalman

Daniel Maalman is an artist, composer and electronic musician who creates site-specific installations that function as experimental setups to research the workings of sound in physical spaces, and to investigate the spatial circumstances that affect our experience of a space.

In the last years, Daniel developed a large instrumentarium of sound sculptures and mechanical objects that can be used to produce sound, using the direct surroundings of his sculptures as his most important canvas to create sound experiences with. His sound sculptures contain handmade porcelain sound objects, pneumatic and electro-magnetic robot drummers, ceramic drums, and vibrating drone motors.

By reshaping the conditions that define our surroundings, Maalman aims to change the context of these conditions and transform a regular space into an immersive experience. Daniel creates spatial compositions utilising uncommon methods and unconventionally designed instruments that use material surfaces, building materials and physical objects as a sound source. Alongside these setups in physical spaces the artist experiments with methods to save the temporary spatial compositions, into three-dimensional virtual spaces, so that the experience can be virtually repeated, revisited and researched.

https://danielmaalman.com/