"Spirit of GMO" at Blue Eyes (Kyoto,JP 20130823) II

Alessandra Eramo 
LA SANTA MONICA 
sound performance, 2022

Voice, mystery and the magical interpretation of sounds heard from the balcony and from the street are at the core of La Santa Monica, an ancient ritual of divination in Puglia in southern Italy, practised by Ales- sandra Eramo's great-grandmother. A dog’s barking, the whistle of a distant train, the cry of an owl, the voice of people walking down the street, all sounds heard are signs revealing a destiny. 
Activating the memory of this archaic practice of invocation and interpretation of the reality, Eramo's sound performance aims to create a profound collective listening experience with the audience through the use of voice, field recordings, electronics, text, drawing and sea salt. In the Performance, salt, a rough-sounding purifying element, is transformed into a sound object, evoking the sound of sea water as a distant memory. The recordings she made during her residency in Castrignano De' Greci-primarily the ubiquitous singing of birds, which is a sign of nature's reconquest of the village, the narratives of some women about these birds, as well as Eramo's own singing form together a new soundscape in a collage of hypnotic noises. The voice becomes a space between the public and the private, between the distant and the near, between the inside and the outside. The body is exposed in a ritual "on the threshold”, in stasis and in movement, creating a circular itinerary surrounded by drawings/musical scores, transcriptions of the sounds recorded and listened to. Through her performance work, Alessandra Eramo carries on her current research on topics of the body and the margin, the voice and the listening experience between the inside and the outside.

Sea Salt_excerpt from "La Santa Monica" 2022

(VALSUSA OUTTAKES) FRAMMENTI SULLA LOTTA NO TAV – EPISODIO 4 - "MILITARIZZAZIONE"

Questo episodio raccoglie racconti e riflessioni sull'occupazione militare in Valsusa. L'episodio non ha pretese di esaustività documentativa circa i numerosi incidenti che hanno visto coinvolti NoTAV e polizia, ma cerca di offrire un quadro, il più schietto e sentito possibile, di come la polizia e l'esercito sono percepiti e osteggiati in Valsusa. Questo lascia spazio a più ampie riflessioni sull'uso strumentale della polizia, sulla democrazia negata e sulla sfiducia nelle forze dell'ordine. L'episodio è qui presentato in una versione più lunga rispetto a quella realizzata per Radio3.

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(VALSUSA OUTTAKES) - FRAMMENTI SULLA LOTTA NO TAV  è un lavoro radiofonico di Davide Tidoni. 

Attraverso la voce di alcune persone legate al movimento No TAV, il lavoro raccoglie una serie di riflessioni attorno a temi quali: la progettazione tecnica della linea Torino Lione; il rapporto tra lotta, comunità e trasformazione individuale; e la difesa militare della Grande Opera Inutile.

Programmato su Tre Soldi / RAI Radio3 nel maggio 2023 (https://www.raiplaysound.it/playlist/valsusaouttakesframmentisullalottanotav), il lavoro è stato trasmesso solamente nelle sue prime tre puntate. La diffusione della quarta puntata è stata cancellata poco prima della messa in onda.

Episodio 4 - “Militarizzazione" (già "La Polizia in Valsusa")

Brigitte Fontaine - L'Auberge
Youmna Saba - Al khayal
Dakn - Too low, too far
Keeley Forsyth - Lost
Hermann Nitsch - Satz 1
Speaker Music - Amerikkka's Bay (ft. Maia Sanaa)
Speaker Music - Black Industrial Complex - Automation Repress Revolution in the Process of Production, and Intercontinental Missiles Represent a Revolution in the Process of Warfare
Anohni & the Johnsons - Free at last
Brian Cox reads Refaat Alareer's last poem "if i must die"
Lucy Railton - Pinnevik
Matana Roberts - I Am
Kamilya Jubran - Nabd
Meredith Monk - Last Song

ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʀᴛɪꜱᴛ

Jessica Ekomane is a French-born and Berlin-based electronic musician and sound artist. She creates situations where the sound acts as a transformative element for the space and the audience. Her quadraphonic performances, characterized by their physical affect, seek a cathartic effect through the interplay of psychoacoustics, the perception of rhythmic structures and the interchange of noise and melody. Her ever-changing and immersive sonic landscapes are grounded in questions such as the relationship between individual perception and collective dynamics or the investigation of listening expectations and their societal roots. Her first LP Multivocal was released in 2019 via Important Records. Since then, her work has been extensively presented in festivals, venues, contemporary art spaces and museums across the world. She was one of the fellows in residence for the villa Romana Prize 2023 in Florence.

https://soundcloud.com/jessica-ekomane
https://jessicaekomane.com
https://jessicaekomane.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/jessicaekomane/

🌿 ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ꜱᴏɴɪᴄ ᴀɢᴇɴᴄʏ

As we have always dealt with sound as a political category, our activism is based on listening and focuses on the revolutionary potential that is inherent in the sonic. Under the banner of Sonic Agency we want to enforce a sonic activism of opposition and resistance. The artists involved are advocating for social and political transformation. Their sounds lend themselves to global emancipatory struggles, and fights for freedom and equality. The featured sounds aren’t complicit in the silence that surrounds us. They are furious, desperate, crying, paralysed, compassionate and rebellious like us. There is a message in sound that cannot be negated.

Listening is not neutral.
Listening shapes the reality we live in.
Listening is shaped by ethics and politics and leads back to it.
Listening is directly linked to memory and identity.
Listening is as important as speaking.
Listening is an active act.

Read the full curatorial statement here
https://strumandiodine.com/article/sonic-agency/

SONIC AGENCY - JESSICA EKOMANE - "Palestine Mix"

Migratory Echoes: Thessaloniki (2017)
Text-sound composition which was part of the installation exhibited at the 6th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art

Migratory Echoes: Thessaloniki, 2017

Sound Devices: exploring literature through sound - Rathmines Library, Dublin (Jan 2013) | First in the Sound Devices podcast series.  

Featuring works by Sarah Boothroyd, Eric Boivin, Hilda Daniel, Mario Sarramian, G.A. Harry, Timo Kahlen, Scott F. Hall & Eleni Manolaraki, Nance Davies, Le Gateaux Bateaux, Mike Ridge, Pierre Jolivet, David Rogers. Produced & presented by La Cosa Preziosa.

Sound Device n.1

Recorded at "room 8", Berlin, Friedrichshain.
Thiébault Imm: guitar
Kévin Angboly: drums
Python vs Cobra, 2013.

La Septieme Tête

_liminal State excerpt 1

Extract from the self released ep "PythonvsCobravsGingerFace".
Recorded in Berlin, February 2013. Full version here:
https://pythonvscobra.bandcamp.com/album/pythonvscobravsgingerface
Sofie Trolde: screams
Thiébault Imm: guitar, screams
Kévin Angboly: drums, screams

Python vs Cobra vs Ginger Face - Untitled Two (feat. Sofie Trolde)

An excerpt from the forthcoming LP
»Living Theory Without Anecdotes«
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http://corvorecords.de

Subfertile (Excerpt)

Der Elefant Im Porzellankaefig (Excerpt)

ALESSANDRA ERAMO is a sound artist, vocalist, composer based in Berlin.
more info:
www.ezramo.com

Sea Salt_excerpt from "La Santa Monica" 2022

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