Live performance of sonic improvisations around field-recordings of natural and technological elements on Sillamäe.

In collaboration with @i-oor playing a prepared piano and @maddie reading “Alice In Tech-Terrain” text.
Performed and recorded at “https://qoqoqo.ee", Sillamäe, Estonia, EE

Original text by Maddie.
Original music by Javier Mars, Tristan and Maddie.




Open the window, tabs splayed out across the horizon. 
Fresh air whirls in, inhale sporadically in zeros and ones. 
Binary breath, buzzing like bees, or giant metal servers covered in pho, porous rock mountains.
Climb out and into the space, then fall down into it. 
Spiral gracefully, like the perfect uniform leaves released from 3D printers overhead.
In the sky lurks The Cloud, where google docs and forgotten screenshots live. 
“What’s the Wi-Fi?”, we gasp, and we grasp holding hands with trees, hugging trees, reaching around their trunks to: plug in.
There are cables everywhere, running like roots.
And the river runs, pixelated, fluid, flowing. Jump into the cyber-soup. 
It’s wet. No, it can’t be. Wet was made obsolete long ago, or tomorrow. 
The water is impenetrable, it cannot be hacked, and it does not refract. No, it does not reflect our essence, instead it adheres to our whims. It moves around our shape. 
On the riverbank, it’s natural greens and synthetic neons.
Weeds emerge- a pop up: “you will need to restart the system to update its software”.
But where is this place? Somewhere soon where it is natural for the unnatural to thrive.
The bugs have been debugged; they are without glitch. 
We are watched, stalked by the animals and plants with their beady high-quality lenses. 
We used to come here to disconnect, or was it to connect? From where were we escaping?

Alice In Tech-Terrain (with Tristan and Maddie), 2023

Now 

I see the fog clear 
                        and
                              flickering smoke particles appear
around me.

                              
                                        Enjoy the dive
                                                  the interior 
                                                  the soul

the descent is covered                                with 
gas-releasing tubes connected to seaweeds,
 

inside
          the underwater cave

sometimes 
                                aquatic
                                plants produces hypnotic

and                                       somnolent chants.



The wall
becomes

                                liquid


when the hydraulic gate is opened
                                strong vibrations 
                                                              initiate 
                                                                          access.
 


January in Transnature

Radio Relativa - Transnatural Paradise #4 w/ Javier Mars & Tristan

Live performance of ’The Sonic Cave', a soundscape research that compiles field-recordings based in the original building of https://moormann.de created with a sonic artefact.

Recorded at @nilsholgermoormann, Aschau im Chiemgau, Germany (DE)
Presented at Nils Holger Moormann Gallery, Munich, Germany (DE)

As part of the opening and https://www.mcbw.de/creative-spots/detail/location/moormanns-salone-di-aschau

17.05.2024

Javier Mars

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