Thank you for the outside, see you on the inside, 2021
Original Composition
Duration: 8:32 mins

Thank you for the outside, see you on the inside, 2021, is an audio composition and graphic score made by Lilian Nejatpour during her time and artist residency at the Van Gogh House in August 2021. Nejatpour recorded the instruments in the Van Gogh House front parlour where Van Gogh's sister, Anna, allegedly played the piano.

During Nejatpour's stay, the artist collected field recordings of Bashment tracks seeping through the house's walls. The composition is a rich tapestry of electronic textures and motifs, which uses the violin as a drawing apparatus.

Taking influence from 18th-century classical music that Van Gogh would have listened to during his stay in London—to the contemporary snapshot of dense car subwoofer breakbeats moving through the streets of Hackford and Brixton Road. Nejatpour acts as a conduit, arranging and compiling these complicated ecologies and histories of sound as fleeting phono artefacts.

In homage to Eugenie Loyer, who is described as the "the mistress of music" in the 1881 census, her mother's salon (Ursula Loyer) becomes the editing suite where Nejatpour masters the final track. The heavy weather cycles become personal terrains of the artist's experience reflected in this site-specific, sonic landscape.

Thank you for the outside, see you on the inside is an offering from the artist—a rite of passage—emerging out of the residency into a new season.
All recordings conducted and mastered at the Van Gogh House, London.

*Please listen with headphones*

Thank you for the outside, see you on the inside, 2021

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