The Tree Spirits| Touch sound work reflects on the life of a tree, speculating on its acoustic component, and explores the interaction of an individual part of a plant with the colony of organisms and the forest biotic community. The sound recordings give voice to the existence of a tree in its annual and life cycles which begin and end in silence. The silence anticipating the springtime resurgence of sap flow, and the silence of destruction caused by climate change, drought, and fires.

The artist zeros in on the touch; touch as an expression of genuine concern and awareness of the coexistence with plants, and a destructive touch of environmental devastation. The sounds of touching a tree trunk, branches rubbing against each other, the crushing of loose bark, the foliage, the rustling of trees in the wind, water drenching the roots – an acoustic journey through the physical existence of a tree. All the way to branch breaking, tree falling and a fire, a warning of the upcoming drought which is always a hard blow to a forest habitat........

For more information about composition browse to:
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Credits:
Artist: Brane Zorman
Consulting: Valentina Cvetkovič, Boris Semenič
Curated by: Irena Pivka
Vibration sensor design: Gregor Krpič
Fieldwork (Trzin): Morales d.o.o., Rok Rucigaj, Boštjan Divjak
Translation and editing: Melita Silič
Photo: Brane Zorman, Irena Pivka
Organisation: Irena Pivka, Katarina Radaljac
Public relations: Katarina Radaljac
Production: Cona, Institute for Contemporary Arts Processing, 2021
Locations: Steklenik, Gallery for Sound, Bioacoustics and Art, MGLC, Švicarija, Ars programme
Partners: International Centre of Graphic Arts (Švicarija)
Thanks: Zavod Kersnikova 4

Brane Zorman: The Tree Spirits | Touch (Palma Ars Acustica 2022 winning composition)

Masa ("Mass") is a sound collage made with feld recordings from my personal archive along with a free adaptation of the poem “Masa”, by César Vallejo (Peru) and the expanded violin by Alexandre Sacha Sakharov (France). This audio piece is part of the compilation project “New Chronologies of Sound”, a collection of sound works based on field recordings, that proposes to generate a sonic debate around the emergence of a new perceived time axis due to the global pandemic landscape: https://lifeisavicnic.bandcamp.com/album/new-chronologies-of-sound

A research study published in 2018 revealed that sound waves carry mass, in particular, negative mass (Esposito, Krichevsky, Nicolis). This mass, in the presence of a gravitational feld, such as that of the Earth, forces its trajectory upwards. Sound waves would therefore be a form of antigravity. These ideas made me think about the absence of those gravitational and vibrational fields. During 2020, these sound waves have disappeared or decreased due to the pandemic situation: sounds of people gathering, choirs, protests, noise of enthusiasm and euphoria, the big and small concerts, even the funerals in community. I miss this crossed map of crowds in unison, a diverse, porous and powerful multiple unison. I began to rescue those mass vibrations from my personal recordings, reliving and following what Séan Street refected in The Sound of a Room:
 “With sound, I am reimmersed in the moment, living it again through the time it took to happen in the first place. It is that slow revelation of identifcation that is an essential part of the experience of a recording, setting it in the memory”.

First Prize Grand Prix Nova International Radio Drama festival, Bucharest 2021
First Prize UK Radio Drama Festival, Canterbury 2022
Recordings, voices, edit and mix by Laura Romero Valldecabres. Mastered by Lawrence English.
Curator(s): Hugo Branco, director of VIC Aveiro Arts House and curator of the project “New Chronologies of Sound” by the Aveiro Municipality via Teatro Aveirense,Portugal; and Jorge Barco (MAMM — Museum of Modern Art of Medellín, Colombia) as curatorship consultant. 

Video with English subtitles (translation by Juande Blasco): https://vimeo.com/573475852

New Chronologies of Sound

"Masa" (Mass). New Chronologies of Sound. Grand Prix Nova Award / UK Radio Drama Award

Abstrakce's guest of the month is LCTRCT, who runs ElMuelle1931 Shop, an amazing bar & record shop in Galicia (Spain). He prepared a selection of the records that make up LCTRCT’s particular pandemonium of hidden music. Two hours of unusual sound proposals, published on vinyl or cassette, dedicated to the ephemeral nature of underground culture.

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A personal field recording from Japan as been used as a baseground of this piece. A dive of the microphones into a giant bell as been performed during the recording to act as a filter on the surrounding sonic landscape.

Otodama

The thermonuclear spark inition, can make us step into another world.

Spark

Based on field recordings made in Kyoto, this religious ceremony is evolving into a transe to bring you into a strange journey.

Tank

This piece is based on the sonic evolution of waves into space from the big-bang up to the status of today. The baseline soundwave of this track is indeed a simulation of the cooling of the universe while expanding. Insure your belts are securely locked and be prepared for a sonic exploration into deep space.

BigBang

After Commutation

It is a story about an intergalactic shockwave that would flip the minds of all human body on earth at the same time. Opening their mind and giving them access to some new way of thinking.

A live set, that I played and masterised long ago but who is quite fun.

Test Beam for Commutation

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'Moon Phase' is a collection of lush and melancholic ambient pieces by our long time favorite artist, SineRider. Presented in a beautiful 4-panel CDr.

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Mastering by Rob Small.
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Realizadora sonora e investigadora (PhD Comunicación). Experimento con distintas narrativas sonoras para contar historias y crear experiencias de escucha en diferentes lenguas y territorios (Español, Inglés, Francés, Portugués, Catalán/Valenciano). Trabajo para emisoras de radio, proyectos de podcast e instalaciones sonoras. Especialmente interesada en el género documental, la bioacústica, el patrimonio cultural, la oralidad, el paisaje sonoro y la poesía. Algunas de mis piezas han sido galardonadas internacionalmente; Grand Prix Nova International Radio Drama Festival (First Prize, short-forms, 2021) UK International Audio Drama (First Prize, short-forms, 2022) Prix Marulić HRT (Bronce en la categoría de mejor documental, 2023). Me entusiasma unirme a diferentes equipos de periodistas, artistas, directores y productores para la grabación, montaje de audio, diseño sonoro, ambientación musical, locuciones y/o asistencia en guión. Colaboro con varias universidades en labores de docencia, divulgación e investigación académica. Soy también locutora y actriz de doblaje en castellano y valenciano para películas, audiolibros y publicidad audiovisual. Organizo habitualmente talleres y sesiones de escucha públicas tanto en el contexto institucional-académico como en iniciativas independientes.
www.laura-romero.com

English Bio in: laura-romero.com
Photo by: Elisa Murcia-Artengo.

"Masa" (Mass). New Chronologies of Sound. Grand Prix Nova Award / UK Radio Drama Award

Laura Romero Valldecabres

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