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A track from the 2021 CD 'Magneto Mori: Vienna' on Canti Magnetici.

Magneto Mori: Vienna

The Periphery Defines The Centre

at last

Instalación sonora para cuatro altavoces.

«El oráculo, como modo de decir, ante todo consiste en no dar explicaciones. Explicar es desplegar, y el oráculo es algo plegado»
Jacques-Alain Miller

Instalación sonora inspirada en las practicas oraculares de la Antigua Grecia, en tanto que crean a partir de su propia acción/enunciación; algo que también sucede en un acto performático.
Esta autocreación sempiterna de lo oracular se manifiesta siempre en tiempo presente, dado que tiempo y espacio en el universo oracular son la mismísima cosa.
El presente es la totalidad de todo lo que existe. Y todo lo que existe, existe ahora, existe en este espacio, existe en esta sala donde el sonido se proyecta…

«El pasado no puede recordar el pasado. El futuro no puede generar el futuro. El lado afilado de este instante, de este aquí y ahora, es siempre, ni más ni menos, que la totalidad de todo lo que existe.»


released February 11, 2021
Voices:
Vidente anónima hindú (recorded in New York)
Escritora pakistaní (recorded in Barcelona)
Maia Koenig (recorded by herself in Málaga)

Covert Art: Mariana Gallay

Teatro Oracular, instalación sonora para cuatro altavoces

Fallen Angels

Ghosts of Christmas

Field recording based composition by Alëna Korolëva, with voice of Eki Shola.

Recorded in marble quarries near Borba, Portugal, October 2022.

Strange but true fact: mining is responsible for nearly half of the world’s economy. The history of mining around the world can be read in the open scars that have been left when the sought after resource has been extracted. In these wounds, often larger-than-life pits abandoned by humans, new forms of life have gathered. Inverted Mountains is a documentary record of one of these spaces. 

Portugal’s Borba Region is rich in marble, 400 pit mines dot the landscape, all but 50 are abandoned. In 2018 a wall of one of the biggest quarries collapsed and buried five people in a landslide.

This track offers a detailed examination of sunset at the bottom of the pit, four years after the accident. Pigeons circle in the lower levels, offering a sound of wings, while starlings and swallows gather near the mouth of the pit, 50 meters above. The natural echoing acoustics of the steep walls allow each bird cry to resonate in a living delay, as if there were thousands not hundreds of birds gathering here. At the very end, the lonely bird song is echoed by a human voice, calling out in a plaintive wordless cry, the ghost of all those whose lives were lost in this forsaken place.

Inverted Mountains

On last ices by Makholma shore with a swell from nearby open water. Four White-tailed Eagles, two Ravens and a few Crows are feasting waste fish left on the ice by a local fisherman 26/2/2023.

MKH8020 + SD702  AB 80cm, 24/48, no processing, +3dB in post.

Icy Swell - 26/2/2023 - with White-tailed Eagle and Raven

a little "krellish" patch using the Tiptop Buchla Source of Uncertainty 266t to drive the sonic show.

Tiptop Krell

World has slowed down. 
Hidden beneath a skin of fear.

All Silver was created during the first days of the Corona shutdown.
Made with passion and modular synths.

Sound and artwork by Thomas Breuer

Inverted Mountains

Alëna Korolëva

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