Name: Difunta C. Fragmento 1 by Paula Sanchez
Duration: 2 min 32 s
Description: -/Violonchelo/Desierto/San Juan/Difunta Correa/Soundscape/-

鲤鱼

i can't shake this juke/footwork fever lmao. there's no "getting bored" of this type of sound.. ya feel me.
this track is called "new loka" because i walked into a room named that on warframe. this room made my jaw drop, how beautiful and peaceful it was.

cart: gary payton

https://youtu.be/41M644N_R_k?si=bCUuONLaZjsBsyLx

bandcamp

new loka

Rewind (stereo mix)

My Favourite Letters

Munkaroo

-/Violonchelo/Desierto/San Juan/Difunta Correa/Soundscape/-

Difunta C. Fragmento 1

Hidden Lives explores ideas of the house as the repository of memories, and of women as the curators of memory and of hidden histories. The daily repetition of domestic routine tasks is common to women, in particular, across centuries, societies and cultures. Through carrying out this invisible work women have shaped and sorted cupboards, rooms, all manner of dwelling places, and the inner lives of societies and cosmologies. At particular times they have been, at once, confined to the  inside the house to carry out unrecognised and exhausting domestic servitude and at the same time able to colonise the ‘inside’ as their own, the place for daydreams and memories.

All the material for this piece is drawn from a selection of women reading from  “The Book of Hints and Wrinkles” a small piece of social history from the 1930s which describes how women should manage both their houses and themselves in no uncertain terms. The daily routine timetable is enough to ensure that no woman could ever spend much time outside the house or away from this backbreaking schedule, and advice on personal appearance is delivered in such a way as to suggest that women are in fact part of the furnishing of the house to be polished, scrubbed and generally to look clean, welcoming and attractive.

‘Hidden Lives’ is one of  a series of  tape works which explore the compositional use of space and gesture as a metaphor for physical and emotional experiences. It attempts to use the distribution, movement and gesture of sound in space in order to emphasise and highlight possible the associative qualities of the recorded material according to personal experience. 

Some of the specific ideas that inform the composition of ‘Hidden Lives’ are in the treatment of the text which moves from the whispers and breaths of memory to half articulated emergent sentances to the mantra of the repetative routine which becomes like a wall of orders and commands. 

The piece was commissioned by the Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique and realised in their studio in Bourges, France.

‘Hidden Lives’ is in celebration of all lives lived and forgotten .

Hidden Lives

Whisperings
Franziska Baumann, voc electronics
Fred Frith, quitar
Michel Wintsch, pian
Lionel Friedli, drums

The Bird, The Breath and the Razorsharp Dream

Black Body Radiation

Caliente Dolor

New genders of listening #3 - Feminine sounds and what they do. In conversation with Erin Gee.
As part of her ongoing exploration of “gendered listening” as a feminist tool, Anna Raimondo interviews Canadian sound artist, performer and composer Erin Gee. By articulating materialist feminist strategies around digital tools through the use of her voice and body, Erin Gee re-apropriates and combines supposedly “masculine” tools with a hyper-feminine aesthetic. As part of an ongoing research into ASMR, Gee explores different languages for encouraging intimacy with the audience.

Difunta C. Fragmento 1

Paula Sanchez

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