The trickling, bubbling, and gurgling movements of water bodies have been a recurring motif for as long as ambient music and field recordings have existed. Yet, UK-based Portuguese artist Matilde Meireles has a gift for reshaping the known into the unexpected. Based on DRIFT, a site-specific floating pavilion created as part of the Belfast 2024 …
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DRIFT was a research and arts project commissioned by the city of Belfast to encourage interaction and understanding of the River Lagan. A series of exhibitions and events took place in the summer of 2024 on a specially-designed pontoon on the river. As part of the project, field recordist Matilde Meireles explored the sound of the river, its …
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Matilde Meireles è una sound artist portoghese, da tempo attiva nel campo della composizione elettroacustica e autrice di alcuni lavori di installazioni e ricerche sul campo, specialmente in contesti urbani e naturali sull’asse Portogallo – Regno Unito, legandosi a Belfast, capitale dell’Irlanda del Nord. L’artista ha da poco pubblicato per Crónica Records “Four Tales”, un …
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Ich hätte es fast wieder ausgemacht und dachte mir: Schon wieder Fieldrecordings! Dann trotzdem weiter zugehört und gemerkt, dass da noch viel mehr dahintersteckt und mir alle vier Teile angehört. Anhören! Das Album ist eine Erweiterung von Meireles’ Kooperationsprojekt DRIFT, dessen Mittelpunkt ein modularer, ortsspezifischer schwimmender Pavillon und öffentlicher Raum in Belfast bildet, der in …
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Cities are usually described through their skylines, traffic, or architectural bravado. Rarely through their rivers actually speaking. Which is unfortunate, because water has been patiently composing the soundtrack of urban life long before humans decided to build bridges over it. With “Four Tales”, Matilde Meireles approaches the city from precisely that overlooked perspective: listening downward, …
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Matilde Meireles stellt dieser Tage ihr neues Album “Four Tales” vor, das als CD bei Crónica erscheint. Die Veröffentlichung ist Teil eines größeren künstlerischen Zusammenhangs, der Klang, Text und Architektur miteinander verschränkt und so unterschiedliche Formen der Wahrnehmung zusammenführt. Ausgangspunkt des Projekts sind vier klangliche Erzählungen, die sich mit Wasser, urbanen Räumen und deren Atmosphäre …
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In Four Tales, sound and architecture unite in a conversation that expands senses and entangles our rhythms with all other pulses that surround us. A city aware of itself. In the album, floating between documentation and imagined drifts, urban infrastructures and bodies of water are explored as entangled entities to be carefully tended to. Rooted in …
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Four Tales is rooted in Pauline Oliveros’ philosophy of deep listening as an act of care and employs sound and extended forms of listening to form a sensibility of community between people and their surrounding architecture and ecosystems. Sound and architecture unite in a conversation that expands our senses and entangles our rhythms with all other …
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