Thursday 1 February 2024
CTM 2024 – Sustain
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Félicia Atkinson and crys cole in conversation with Daniel Irrgang

At CTM 2024, Félicia Atkinson will premiere »Thinking Through the Iceberg,« an experimental oratorio for three characters, with the collaboration of the abstract guitarist Jules Reidy and the sound artist crys cole.

For Felicia Atkinson, human voices inhabit an ecology alongside and within many other things that don’t speak, in the conventional sense: landscapes, images, books, memories, ideas. Her artistic work imagines possibilities of animating and entering into dialogue with such entities. The practice of the sound artist crys cole seeks seemingly mundane materials, with which she creates subtle electro-acoustic works that continuously retune the ear. Ahead of their premiere at CTM, Atkinson and cole will speak with the media and art scholar Daniel Irrgang on their collaboration and intersecting approaches, and on revealing complex and fragile interconnectedness even in places where there seems to be no life at all.

Félicia Atkinson and the residency with crys cole and Jules Reidy is supported by SHAPE+, which is co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

CTM 2024: Sounding the Non-human

A brief excerpt of my sound installation Recurrences, which was created for the 2023 premiere edition of the Biennale Son in Sion Switzerland. The audio was recorded in and around the Grande Dixence dam in the mountains surrounding the Valais region. The water sounds, which were captured by hydrophone in various locations in and around the dam were diffused through an underwater speaker inside the large circular black tub, which filtering the audio creating a more intimate and distant effect.  

Recurrences returns the original source of energy from the Grande Dixence dam to La Centrale via intimate recordings made around and within the dam itself. This energetic material is relocated back into the dormant hydro plant as a memory or ghost, emerging from a still vessel of water surrounded by the distant sounds of its now empty house.

Recurrences excerpt

YVES TUMOR — Serpent Music
Format: LP / Digital
Cat.No: PAN 73
Release Date: 23 September 2016

http://p-a-n.org/

The enigmatic Tennessee-raised, Turin-based Yves Tumor presents a poignant new album, recorded between Miami, Leipzig, Los Angeles and Berlin over the past three years. 

Evolved from a diverse and prolific creative history under an expansive plethora of covert aliases via various forward-thinking labels, 'Yves Tumor' emerges as his most personal and matured incarnation to date.

With involvement across various artistic outlets expanding to fashion such as a visceral live performance for LA's Hood By Air earlier this year, the global artist has built a distinctly bold personal aesthetic both musically and visually as a performer.

Painstakingly written from pieces developed upon since 2013, the new record, titled 'Serpent Music', was initially composed as a soul record - based around delicate and emotive songwriting in various forms. It was a highly difficult project to undertake on both a creative and personal level, weaving thematic links through paranoia, social anxiety, and missing loved ones. "The songs come from a much more emotional and very vulnerable place... They're very close to me and I've been cautious of how I would eventually present them to the world." he explains. 

The album spans sonically diverse and richly-textured pieces, formed from live, organic instruments, samples and various field recordings. Dreamlike lo-fi psychedelia sits alongside broken electronic experimentations, ambient compositions between abrasive noise offer insight into a haunting otherworld. From melodic choral vocals and soaring synths, to screeching guitar riffs, dramatic spoken word samples and live drumming, 'Serpent Music' evidently moves through a strange and intriguing personal journey.

The album is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, featuring photography by Daniel Sannwald.

Serpent Music

Yves Tumor - The Feeling When You Walk Away (PAN 73)

The Subtext Recordings composer wanders through khaen, organ and shakuhachi on this serene Hyp mix.

Download + Tracklist: http://hyponik.com/mixes/hyp-290-ellen-arkbro/

https://soundcloud.com/ellenarkbro's for organ and brass is out April 14 via https://soundcloud.com/subtext-recordings. Get it here: https://ellenarkbro.bandcamp.com/

Download + Tracklist

Hyp 290: Ellen Arkbro

L'Ô lu si de LÀ est le spectre sonore d'une performance installative présentée chez Sporobole à Sherbrooke le 24 mai 2019.

L'Ô lu si de LÀ

crys cole is a Canadian sound artist working in composition, performance and sound installation. Generating subtle and imperfect sounds through haptic gestures and seemingly mundane materials, she creates texturally nuanced works that continuously retune the ear.

cole has performed in Canada, Japan, Australia, Thailand, Singapore, the USA, UK and throughout Europe. She has ongoing collaborations with Oren Ambarchi (AU) and with James Rushford (AU) (under the name Ora Clementi). She has also worked with Francis Plagne (AU), Leif Elggren (SW), Tetuzi Akiyama (JP), Seiji Morimoto (DE), Jessika Kenney (US), David Rosenboom (US), Annea Lockwood (US/NZ), Keith Rowe (UK), Lance Austin Olsen (CA), Jamie Drouin (CA), Mathieu Ruhlmann (CA), David Behrman (US), Tim Olive (JP/CA) and many more.

Cole’s work has been published on labels Black Truffle (AU), Penultimate Press (UK), Ultra Eczema (BE), caduc (CA), Bocian (PL), Another Timbre (UK) and Infrequency editions (CA/DE). With guest appearances published on Touch (UK) and MeGO (AT).

She has exhibited her work in Canada, Russia, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, the UK and Thailand.

Recurrences excerpt

crys cole

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