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Gabrielė Dikčiūtė [25.09.2021]

Mette Edvarsen - Livre d'images sans images
LP on Xing (XONG collection XX10) out September 2023, order at https://www.soundohm.com/product/livre-d-images-sans-image and at https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=11861&menu=2
Collector's edition available at https://www.soundohm.com/product/livre-d-images-sans-image-2 and at https://shop.flash---art.it/products/mette-edvardsen-iben-edvardsen-livre-dimages-sans-images

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Xing presents the new LP Livre d'images sans images by Mette Edvardsen & Iben Edvardsen, tenth release of XONG collection - artist records. The release is on white vinyl, in a limited numbered edition of 300 copies. The collector's edition consists of 25 copies accompanied by a unique poster, hand drawn with black marker by the two artists, mother and daughter, folded like a map, echoing the activity of the performance.

Livre d'images sans images by Mette Edvardsen & Iben Edvardsen borrows its title from a book by H.C. Andersen, also referred to as The Moon Chronicler. The book follows a conversation between a painter and the Moon, where the Moon describes to the painter what she sees on her journey around the world every evening, telling the painter to paint what she describes. “This conversation, as in the now obsolete meaning of the word (‘a place where one lives or dwells’), was the starting point for our work. Using the weather report as dramaturgy, (‘the moon did not show up every evening, sometimes a cloud came in between’), we have created and collected materials from our conversations in the form of recordings, text, voice, drawings, references, found images, loose connections, inspirations and imaginations, in the order they came to us. They are at the same time sources and traces, material and support for new imaginations or events to come.” 
Livre d'images sans images is a project that consists of three different media: live performance, vinyl and paper.

Xong is the name of the collection produced by Xing, a vinyl-only record label of works by both Italian and international personalities linked to the variegated worlds of live performativity. The collection explores a geography of artists who present this sonic field as a platform to expand their staged worlds. "The space of the record" is given focus and amplifies their poetics as both a sonic and physical phenomenon. Xong is a unique project that draws out divergent understandings of the performative and live arts, beyond genre and intersecting between different practices. Xong collects a series of original creations that constitute an expanded program. Each physical record is a numbered edition on white vinyl hosting the solidification of the gesture. A wave upon wave, a series of "Music-Non-Music" to actualize both the artists and listeners imagination.

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Recorded and edited by Mette Edvardsen & Iben Edvardsen, Handwriting (cover) Mette Edvardsen, Drawing (sticker) Iben Edvardsen, Graphic design (inside material) Michaël Bussaer, Artwork by Xing, Edited and mixed by Tobia Bandini, Pasquale Savignano, Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi, Supported by Norsk Kulturråd, Format vinyl (white), Released by Xing in a numbered edition of 300 copies
including collector’s edition of 25 copies, each accompanied by a unique poster hand drawn with black marker by Mette Edvardsen & Iben Edvardsen, 59,4 x 84 cm, folded, signed by the artists, Co-published by Varamo Press, Cat.n° XONG collection XX10 (2023), Label Xing.

Livre d'images sans images

XX10: Mette Edvardsen - Livre d'images sans images - One side - excerpt side A - between

Soundtrack from a theatre play 'Bėgūnė'

Šokio Scena

Atmosfera 3

Jungtis

Boso Atmosfera

Daiktų Scena

Pradžia

Live recording at the WFS Festival, Den Haag, 2024

the hidden world of everyday electronic objects (live recording)

Most recent performance of my piece Flicker, recoreded in the library of West Den Haag as part of the 2025 Rewire Festival. Featuring vocals for the first time, something I'm looking forward to exploring further in the future!

Flicker is a continuously evolving snapshot my ongoing exploration of the potential of composing and performing with light as sound. Developed since March 2024, the work centers on an optical synthesis system that directly translates modulated light into audio signals, creating an intimately proximate dialogue where the two mediums converge.

The system employs LED light sources and solar panels to generate electric currents which transform light variations into sound signals. By modulating the electrical current supplied to the LED, I generate rich and varying waveforms, which are then subject to further processing and spatialisation. The system enables me to sculpt the dynamics in the interplay between the light and sound, creating an immersive sensory experience.

With the performance, I aim to reflect both the interconnected artistic and technical dimensions of this exploration, to bring the audience into the world of this very fundamental approach to electronic sound synthesis, and open a window into my own intuitive approach to the process of composing and working with this system. 

More info at https://lythgoe.studio/flicker/

Audio recording by Toke Nielsen
Picture by @its.just.luca

Flicker live @ Rewire Festival 2025

Daniel L. Lythgoe

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