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Kill The Ego
From Soundwalk Collective | Part of the Soundwalk Collective 10 Year Anniversary series | 58:00
Kill the Ego: New York recordings 2002: is an epic, a tone poem, composed from 10 years worth of intimate field recordings. These are the fragmented memories of poets and dominatrixes, of pimps and prophets, of visionaries and lost children. An unorthodox expression from the street on upwards, this soaring narrative is sewn together from the city's most obscure corners, equal parts profound unrest, and unabashed life affirmation.
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Kill the Ego: New York recordings 2002: is an epic, a tone poem, composed from 10 years worth of intimate field recordings. These are the fragmented memories of poets and dominatrixes, of pimps and prophets, of visionaries and lost children. An unorthodox expression from the street on upwards, this soaring narrative is sewn together from the city's most obscure corners, equal parts profound unrest, and unabashed life affirmation.
More information at soundwalkcollective.comDeath Must Die
From Soundwalk Collective | Part of the Soundwalk Collective 10 Year Anniversary series | 58:00
Death Must Die is a sound piece that begins before the rising of the sun and reproduces the cycle of a day in the sacred Indian city of Varanasi, where death is everywhere, bathed in light. It is here that Hindus come to die and burn their dead. It is here, on the river’s edges, that the wrath and the grace of Shiva are expressed. Intoxicating as death itself, it is a hammering song of the dead, playing until one is transfixed, and it is the murmuring of the Ganges…the power of silence.
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Death Must Die is a sound piece that begins before the rising of the sun and reproduces the cycle of a day in the sacred Indian city of Varanasi, where death is everywhere, bathed in light. It is here that Hindus come to die and burn their dead. It is here, on the river’s edges, that the wrath and the grace of Shiva are expressed. Intoxicating as death itself, it is a hammering song of the dead, playing until one is transfixed, and it is the murmuring of the Ganges…the power of silence.
More information at soundwalkcollective.com
Ulysses Syndrome: Recordings from the Mediterranean Sea
From Soundwalk Collective | Part of the Soundwalk Collective 10 Year Anniversary series | 58:00
Following the ancient path of Ulysses, Soundwalk Collective continuously scanned and recorded all possible radio interceptions over a range of 40 miles around the boat, while close to shore and far out at sea. The resulting work is resonant of Homer's epic, 1500 hours of collected sound, distilled and re-interpreted into the form of a glorious sonic fresco.
In the Fall of 2008 Soundwalk Collective embarked aboard an old gaff-rigged sailboat equipped with scanners and aerial antennae for a sound odyssey recording the Hertzian frequencies along the shores of the Mediterranean basin. Following the ancient path ofUlysses, they continuously scanned and recorded all possible radio interceptions over a range of 40 miles around the boat, while close to shore and far out at sea. The resulting work is resonant of Homer's epic, 1500 hours of collected sound, distilled and re-interpreted into the form of a glorious sonic fresco.
Empty Quarter: Recordings from the Rub' Al Khali desert
From Soundwalk Collective | Part of the Soundwalk Collective 10 Year Anniversary series | 58:00
Soundwalk Collective went on a 45-day journey through this Desert of deserts, the crossroads of the Arabic civilization, recording hundreds of hours of sonic fragments. The result is a reflection on silence, an hypnotic meditation on a forsaken world, transience and the footprints left by man on earth. Sounds collected here know no boundaries, just as the nomadic traditions remind us.
The bedouins call this vast barren land the Rub’ Al Khali, literally the "Empty Quarter". This Desert of deserts stretches from the border of Yemen to the mountains of Oman; from the southern coast of the Arabic Peninsula to the Persian Gulf and the border of Nedjd. Soundwalk Collective went on a 45-day journey through this Desert of deserts, the crossroads of the Arabic civilization, recording hundreds of hours of sonic fragments. The result is a reflection on silence, an hypnotic meditation on a forsaken world, transience and the footprints left by man on earth. Sounds collected here know no boundaries, just as the nomadic traditions remind us.
Bessarabia Ghost Tapes
From Soundwalk Collective | 53:09
Bessarabia Ghost Tapes is a haunting soundscape that weaves the voices of Holocaust survivor oral histories from the Centropa Foundation with 1940s era ’78s collected in a free market in Bessarabia and field recordings, to create a meditative and hypnotic reflection on the indifference of nature towards our barbarianism and cruelty, and the never-ending cycle of inflicting pain on one another.
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The sound piece is a reflection on the contrast between the permanence of nature sounds, bound to a territory, and the disintegration of the human sounds that populated these places in a time and space, creating a meditative and hypnotic reflection on the indifference of nature towards our barbarianism and cruelty, and our never-ending cycle of inflicting pain on each other.