"Modern Witches: Trails and Tribulations" is an electroacoustic soundwalk composed by Visobel Black referencing the women who were burned under the alleged crime of witchcraft in Bergen during the 16th and 17th centuries. 

This is the complete work but it was designed separately for use with the geo-location App, Echoes, for a specific sitewalk in Bergen, Norway. The work premiered in September during the Here & Now festival on 15.09.22 and will remain available as a soundwalk in Bergen here: https://explore.echoes.xyz/collections/RSLQ1bU4gwEEFeqO

Combining natural and processed sounds from voice and violin, site-specific field recordings and composed text referencing history, folklore and current traumas, the work aims to speak to and for persecuted and silenced women’s voices by telling stories of parallel histories. By moving in real-time through spaces where traumatic events took place, Visobel hopes to forge a connection between past and present with the voices in the walls you pass; this is complimented by use of the Echoes App which triggers additional sounds as you walk through them. We remember, care for and connect to spaces when there is a story attached and this is the power of music, myth and folklore as a means for change as our experiences become memory. 

Supported by Creo Vederlagsfond; Electronic mix and master by Martyna Kosecka, prepared at NOTAM

Prepared for the Here & Now Festival by Her og Der and TrAP (Transcultural Arts Production), supported by Kultrrådet, Bergen Kommune and Vestland Fylke

MODERN WITCHES: Trails & Tribulations

Electroacoustic Soundwalk made for use with Echoes App in Bergen. 
Premiered at Bergen Here & Now Festival, September 2022. 

These are excerpts from the work but it was designed separately for use with the geo-location App, Echoes, for a specific sitewalk in Bergen, Norway. The work premiered in September during the Here & Now festival on 15.09.22 and will remain available as a soundwalk in Bergen. 

Project supported by Creo Vederlagsfond; Electronic mix and master by Martyna Kosecka, prepared at NOTAM

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"Modern Witches: Trails and Tribulations" is an electroacoustic soundwalk composed by Visobel Black referencing the women who were burned under the alleged crime of witchcraft in Bergen during the 16th and 17th centuries. 

Combining natural and processed sounds from voice and violin, site-specific field recordings and composed text referencing history, folklore and current traumas, the work aims to speak to and for persecuted and silenced women’s voices by telling stories of parallel histories. By moving in real-time through spaces where traumatic events took place, Visobel hopes to forge a connection between past and present with the voices in the walls you pass; this is complimented by use of the Echoes App which triggers additional sounds as you walk through them. We remember, care for and connect to spaces when there is a story attached and this is the power of music, myth and folklore as a means for change as our experiences become memory.

Excerpts Modern Witches: Trails & Tribulations

The folkloric story of La Llorona; the weeping woman. 
Semi-improvised solo work for voice, violin, loop pedal and tape

The Grieving River Live - VoxLAB Solsnukonsert 2022

Ritual Of Resonance & Flesh - Fixed Media composed by Vanessa Isobel Black who also performs on top with live amplified voice, violin, and a handmade waterphone/bell instrument while 'playing the body' as it is suspended with hooks from a suspended body.

Written for 4 x days of ritual performances for Midgardsblot 2023 in Gildehallen in collaboration with Fakir Morten the Maniac and Smertekirken
https://midgardsblot.no/en/program/smertekirken/
Premiere Aug 16, 2023

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