#253. Independent sound art, radiophonic projects and other audio non-visual misunderstandings and findings. Two soundpieces, one from the Rotterdam-located sound artist Jake Caleb, the other one is a Radia-show with work by the Brasilian sound artist Thelmo Cristovam.
1. Fête du Citron. (2020) Jake Caleb.
2. DIVersa_Nula – Thelmo Cristovam. (2020).
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1. Fête du Citron. (2020)
Jake Caleb.
(sound recording, 30 min.)
Carnival welcomes the end of winter, a celebration of new life after harsher months. Fête du Citron is a mix of collected sounds from December till March 2020, intermittent recordings between waterproofed journeys and hiding out gale force storms. A citrus festival in Nice, a gorge in Somerset, windswept dunes in Den Haag.
Jake Caleb (UK) stages small events, bringing bodies into the room to celebrate a moment. Taking place within the jumbled calendar of daily life, these gatherings tap into the energies and materials already with us in belief that different pockets of time and experience will be found. He lives in Rotterdam.
2. DIVersa_Nula – Thelmo Cristovam. (2020)
As a sound artist living in Brazil, I bear in mind the idea of broadcasting. Distances spray along different lines and overlapping spatial identities. but there are fixed spaces which identity and segment this vast space yet multiple.
The piece is composed of three distinct moments & interests that collapse & run in parallel, the saxophone used as machine, the field recordings (here in the Sertão, in particular) & the space/time manipulation through diverse fragmentation and aa labour of modification from the sound files themselves provided through a physical process.
Brazil is a complex location. Indeed it crosses through a mobile variation of spaces, continuously shaping and interacting beyond geography stereotypes. The piece attempts thus to reach an imaginary, immediate and simultaneous aural access to various locations, where I was always and now no longer visit. The image is from one of these locations.
Where I live in, up in the northeast, makes me wonder how to pose interrogations and singularities which are kept invisible when thinking of Brazil as a whole. Departing from this, I try to present my work, not only agains this fixed identity, but mainly and obviously as a personal process of sound -making.
Thelmo Cristovam, born 1975, lives and works in Olinda, Pernambuco, northeast region of Brazil. Improviser & composer, his academic background is in physics and mathematics, but he is an independent researcher in psychoacoustics. Breath/throat (sax, trumpet, trombone, flute) & electromagnetic waves (satellites/radio) are the main focus on his free improvisation performances and production/recording nowadays. His range of research/poetics includes radio art, noise/drone & field recordings based compositions. Besides his own production, he has given workshops on deep listening, sound art and field recordings, subjects that are the focus of many of his works, besides electroacoustic compositions and free improvisation. He also works as a sound designer for local short films and does research and sound engineering to several projects.
