Interconnectivity
[evolving connection abilities with immediate and distant environments and entities, including humans]
From 1 to 6 pm:
Quadraphonic (4-channel) sound installation "Invasive Specials (Integrated)" based on nocturnal long-duration recording from Brazilian Amazon rain-forest
From 9 pm:
Evening performance in 2 parts:
7 islands (sonic ocean) extract from 4-ch installation based on underwa
no intermission - transition directly to:
Tuning to sunset - playing LIVE across dusk 9:42
Transitioning from light to darkness
Listening together. Being together. Connection?!
Concept:
Imagine an alien race living in a completely different paradigm, communicating via sounds reminiscent of the human concept of “music” who can “see” the sounds, similar as human concept of synesthesia. Imagine this alien is trying to tune in to the surrounding environment, looking for ways to co-exist within the unknown habitat. Every sound has the same potential to interact, all sounds are equal participants in ecological organism. The alien is trying to find his own equal place within, the same as any other sound. This alien is me.
Seems, whole my life I am exploring the path of “connection” - sometimes I am more conscious, with clarity in my mind and sometimes I am simply floating in the stream of consciousness - listening, watching, feeling its way around me … however always with the same wish for connecting with the surrounding world - this reality.
The “CONNECTION” seems the answer for everything, it is the departure point - the start of everything.
I am playing almost every day, or at night - as I am rather a nocturnal creature. I am fortunate to have a little studio just aside from the house, often at night without disturbing anyone. I am playing mainly with headphones to hear everything in great detail, it helps me to listen in higher concentration. I have various sound devices and microphones in the garden, it picks up sounds and vibrations of the surrounding environment, it works like giant sensor trying to connect with the world around them. I am listening from inside the studio and playing with “it”. The surrounding sound world is my orchestra. My contribution is not heard outside, the surrounding reality is intact of interference. I am trying to find “my place” in “it”. The same - absolutely equal as every participating particle of human, animal, or weather origin or any other entity. How to be together in a balanced, harmonious way? How to recognize “our place”? It is a mystery. However, sometimes I do feel everything in harmony, a strange sense of balance. It just “sounds right”, it is hard to put words on “it” - you can feel it in the guts. I am attempting to sustain that sensation for as long as it is possible because it feels good
