To travel by air is to enter a world of worry and waiting; basically, we’ve taken the miracle of flight and made it a hassle. Marc Behrens attempts to regain some of the wonder and awe of taking to the skies with Clould, whose title—a combination of “cloud” and “could”—refers to the possibilities inherent in flying. Over the course of 36 flights, Behrens recorded inside airports and airplanes in any way he could: with microphones in his luggage, with electromagnetic mics, with a recorder plugged into the in-flight entertainment system. After years of collecting this material, he organized it into a suite of five movements. Safety demonstrations and PA announcements are stretched and compressed until digital interference appears, making flat robotic voices sound even more inhuman. However, it’s hard not to see oneself in their stretched and blurred syllables, which seem to reenact the uncanny temporality of an interminable layover. As Behrens suggests, there may even be something spiritual in trying to decode these messages, completely forgettable in their origins but now made alien and ghostly.
via Bandcamp Daily