One of the first performances and explorations for my new project, Katopia - a sonic fiction.

Sonic fiction is the process of writing music based on a fictional narrative. That narrative is influenced by a real tragedy, a trauma. Through science fiction and Afrofuturism, artists have used sonic fiction to escape, heal and find catharsis for themselves and communities that can relate to those tragedies.

Therefore, through sound, I started designing an imaginary virtual environment, a sort of paradise, Katopia (the below-place).

The fiction entails a shared experience, a sort of common audiovisual hallucination:
On August 4, 2020, at 6:07pm, 1600 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, which were stored in the port of Beirut, exploded into thin air, destroying the capital. According to witness testimony, humans who were in the vicinity of the explosion, and inhaled excessive amounts of ammonium nitrate, report to have accessed an alternative state of reality. They encountered a digital realm, in which warring humanoid machines spoke to them, with sounds, images and words.
This realm was described as neither bliss nor despair, heaven nor hell. It is simply other; characterized by the miraculous fact of survival and, crucially, freedom; it is a below-place; it is Katopia.

Live @ ETIKETT Radio 16/05/2022

live @ signals festival Oct 28th, 2022

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