Martín Rodríguez Extrait / Excerpt

@shcherbyna

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Cxemcast 090 – Signal From Militia

This piece is composed only with sounds from a bike in motion

Fahrrad

Vegetarian

Uliana Bychenkova
Outline Ritornello “Velyki Selmentsi”
2023, Sound Essay, 13′ 38″

I had a peculiar listening situation on my way from Ukraine to Germany at the end of February 2022. It took place somewhere on the Carpathian mountain’s serpentine road when we tried to get to the border on a minibus of Polish activists. It was already night when we got closer to the borderline but then our driver realised that we got lost. We tried to search for other border points and the driver was in touch with his Polish colleague by phone. I was sitting near and listening to this sound situation in the middle of the night on a serpentine snow road: the driver tried to spell in the right way the name of the next border point using Polish names to transcribe the Ukrainian toponym “Velyki Selmentsi”.

There is something performative in the process of producing a sound essay — a memory lived through bodily effort and bodily inventiveness to express a thought. Observing my own inability to grasp the form of piece, I suddenly came to the conclusion that the elusive contour is its compositional character. However, the very act of groping, of feeling one's perceptual memory, of returning, which refines the contour as much as it loses it, is in itself a rotation, a ritornello of drilling at certain distant point. Dealing with memory, trying to comprehend its aesthetic formula, remembering details that can’t help to build a smooth monolithic monument. Each subsequent memory is a variation of the strokes, hazy, inaccurate and blurred in space. The serpentine shape, which I mysteriously was aspired to, seemed to me the embodiment of lightness — I was imagining a halo of smoke rising up in a spiral, where names like stars under a dome become exact coordinates. But nothing is certain in smoke. Navigation in the space is dramatically unstructured, and some random abstract data can become a coordinate cipher.

Outline Ritornello “Velyki Selmentsi”

A remix of the track: METALLIC EQUALITY by Eyden Zhao

METALLIC EQUALITY (Eyden Zhao) - Remix

Aiguillage (Switches & Crossings)

Oramics machine sound sample

https://pointsoflistening.wordpress.com/2014/06/30/pol-7-im-a-good-listener/

https://pointsoflistening.wordpress.com/2014/07/25/pol-7-documentation/

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29th Kolomyia Music Festival named after Kos-Anatolsky, opening day. Ivano-Frankivsk symphony orchestra, chief conductor Viktor Oliynyk

01 Увертюра до опери Заграва, Кос-Анатольський

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Outline Ritornello “Velyki Selmentsi”

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