SEMI SILENT

Oedaadaao is a title without registered meaning or definition… the choice of these letters represents the ongoing journey through Enescu’s Oedipus and Tzara’s sound poetry both of which have their origins within the local area.

How to approach a new place? And what to take home from it? The rural area of Tescani in Romanian Moldavia is characterized by reverberating sounds waving between hills, farming, and plenty of dogs of course. Up the hill on the edge of the village lies a small museum in honor of the Romanian composer George Enescu. A mansion with its own little forest. But the grandeur of the past shows cracks. Hu...

What is the difference between talking with and talking about nonhuman animals?

Outtakes of the project Syntopia:Bega (by Andreea Săsăran & Abby Lee Tee), recorded in July 2021 while collecting material for an audiovisual essay about the widely ramified river and canal system Bega in Timișoara, coming across numerous hidden places where frogs and their vocal expressions were dominating the soundscape – above and below the surface of the water.

Authors: Anamaria Pravicencu & V. Leac, 2020

Author: Anna Kravets, 2021

Author: Cristian Fierbințeanu, 2020

Author: Ana Teodora Popa, 2020

Author: Ivan Palacký, 2020

Author: Manja Ristić, 2020

Marseille-Tokyo. It starts almost like a game, I’m looking for plane tickets as I don’t know what else to do. I try other destinations, Taipei, Seoul, but they work less well. Tokyo rhymes with everything, even with a return to Bucharest. Marseille-Tokyo-Osaka-Bucharest is surely a more interesting story to tell than Marseille-Bucharest. By taking this trip, I have, at least, the merit of having c...

Author: Toni Dimitrov, 2020

It was back in 2016, spring, May, 27th, my first and so far only tour in Japan. During some unscheduled days, I went to Hiroshima on the day when Barack Obama was visiting. The timing couldn't have been more perfect, as the train from Tokyo arrived just some minutes before the helicopters appeared. I joined the crowds and start recording. Some hours later, I watched the actual speech from a small...

Author: Manja Ristić, 2019

Înspre is the second part of a composition representing an intimate study of the peripheral and the insular, the open and confined, the controlled and the impromptu.

Dinspre is about the harshness and loneliness of these remote locations I’ve visited, it collects a bit of something which most people seem to be running away from at the end of the day.

The diversity of Tokyo’s sounds can make a string of connection about the Japanese noise culture.

The sound image of the rural surroundings of Letea.

In little poor but picturesque village between canals, the ancient forest and the sea – Letea, the animals are the main and most common inhabitants.

An ambient/soundscape piece containing field recordings from the whole trip to the Danube Delta and a nice subtle ambient melody.

Lush Dusk is an exploration of equanimity in the face of setbacks, disappointment and adversity.

"Terrans tend to feel they've got to get ahead, make progress. The people of Winter, who always live in the Year One, feel that progress is less important than presence." — Ursula Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

Isolation people experience in a village this small is deafening, if you dare to listen.

The piece deals with an embodied dematerialization of a grid, a structure. Through a hypnotic process the listener is guided to embody the struggles of Ailanthus Altissima, The Tree of Heaven entangled in the fences of Bucharest and to exit this limitation mentally.

One of my favorite objectives in my short trip to Paris was to record the sound of TGVs. I was always fascinated by the idea of being a train-spotter and in my recording-visit to the Gare de l’Est, I had the chance to catch three TGVs and two “regular” trains that sounded and looked like TGVs… I recorded some of the train station’s ambiance, but mostly the trains. Have a good listening at precisel...