Collection of sound art put together in remembrance of Alisa Simonović, a forgotten Serbian painter.
To this day there is no official record of her work, and her paintings might be dispersed between Belgrade, Paris, and somewhere in Germany where there was the last collectors’ interest. She predominately produced oil on canvas. Her creative force left strong echoes in her family, but her sudden death produced a loudness of grief among those who loved her. She was a party girl. A burning heart of Paris nightlife and a wild daughter. But gentle and inspiring sister and aunt.
This 30 min sound tribute grew from micro-narratives recorded on an old piano she liked to play in her family house. The piano is pre-WWII dated upright with fine woodwork and a rather preserved mechanism. The pedal is broken.
The approach to sound on the tracks transcends micro tonalities of intuitive composing which emerges from the careful placement of field recordings and spontaneous site-specific interventions or unresolved movements. Those spatial textures are further translated into ambient orchestration, revealing the power and fragility of a particular moment – a memory of multilayered reality embedded in both the social and natural environments. Material is purposely left uncompressed in order to preserve as much as possible of the original frequencies with its raw sonic geometry, therefore headphones or sensitive wide-range PA is recommended for the accurate listening experience.
In Belgrade April 2019.