n May of 2020 I began a daily practice of exploring extended just intonation harmonies on the alto saxophone. For nearly a year I recorded every night, layering multiple tracks of saxophone or playing against an electronic drone. I worked with strict overtone relationships, integer multiples on a fundamental tone, as well as scales with so-called "undertone" relationships, derived from divisions of a fundamental tone. The recordings on Studies for Just Intonation Saxophone are drawn from these sessions. Some are rough sketches simply demonstrating a static harmony. Others are melodic improvisations on modal scales. Study III is a collage of different studies that was composed for the 2020 High Zero Festival and originally accompanied a video by Tim Nohe. - Andrew Bernstein, 2022

ANDREW BERNSTEIN - STUDIES FOR JUST INTONATION SAXOPHONE

'Stožice Walk’ represents the conclusion of the ‘Sonic Ontology of Negligence’ trilogy, initiated in 2020 by Steklenik – Gallery for sound, bioacoustics and art, from Ljubljana.

The first part of the trilogy was a sound work titled ‘Sonic Ontology of Negligence' produced as a publication and a series of in-situ FM radio sound walks.
See archive: www.steklenik.si/en/manja-ristic-sonic-ontology-of-negligence/

The second piece, composed of the material gathered in the performative walk through abandoned mega-structure Stožice, is ‘Nothing Has To Happen, Fortress Europe’, commissioned by Radiophrenia 2022.
See archive: radiophrenia.scot/artist/manja-ristic/
The work was published by Elan Vital Recordings, as a start of the series Dystopian 001, a split release with Toni Dimitrov.
elanvital.bandcamp.com/album/dystopian-001

‘Stožice Walk’, the third and most complete recording of the walk was presented in September 2022 at the TO)pot Sound Walks Festival, in Ljubljana, as a live electro-acoustic set at the Cukrarna Gallery.
www.steklenik.si/en/to-pot-sound-walks-festival/

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"Sonic Ontology of Negligence is continuous research evolving from listening to abandoned places and landscapes reshaped by the extensive intervention of human presence and exploitation, and eventually “given over” to Nature to reclaim the space."

My intention with the trilogy was to tackle the sphere of the politics of sound and to put a soundscape in a wider socio-cultural framework.

With this work I tried to build a synthesis that included geoanthropology - an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the interaction between Earth processes and humanity, then, I searched for common denominators of the phenomenology of listening and the culture of memory as well as systems ecology which focuses on interactions and transactions within and between biological and ecological systems and is especially concerned with the way the functioning of ecosystems can be influenced by human interventions.

Cover art by Luka Bilbija

Mastering by La Plant Studio, Belgrade
https://laplantstudio.com/

Special thanks to Cona Zavod, Radiophrenia Glasgow, Elan Vital Recordings.

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Ultraviolet Light is a cassette label established in 2015 in Baltimore Md . The label is founded, operated and curated by Jimmy Joe Roche.  UVL is dedicated to releasing work by artists who push sonic boundaries, emphasize experimentation, conceptualize sound as invisible sculpture and radiate mysterious energies. 

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