Akousma —— International Festival Of Immersive Digital Music
20th edition: October 16-17-18 2024
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This fall the "ghosts" are traveling across the Ocean.
ghosts (2024) 20’
How do we approach the landscape of severe devastation and a dense history of warfare?
In the work ghosts I am using obsolete instruments – a modular synthesizer EMS Synthi 100, a discarded wheelchair wheel salvaged from the Adriatic Sea, and the piano fallen in disuse which belonged to the Austrian conceptualist, filmmaker, improviser, photographer, environmentalist, and writer – Karl Katzinger aka John Tylo (October 1953 – April 2021).
Next to these elements of the past and their voices rediscovered, I am incorporating live processing of hydrophone and field recordings, found objects, and electromagnetic fields, from several locations, appropriating them through the discourse of critical tourism and a culture of memory – more specifically through listening to the inherent memories of environmental devastation and warfare – in the South Adriatic, on the Atlantic coast, and the Czech-Austrian borderlands former Iron Curtain belt, including region of former Mauthausen–Gusen working camps.