Vacuamoenia’s “Panphonia” reviewed by A Closer Listen

Seeing, goes the theory, necessarily modifies what is being seen. That’s not even considering the effects of perspective, which is to say the mental articulation of meanings and associations in a particular language about whatever’s under observation. If field recording could be said to be in large part about enjoying the silence of the world, …

New release: Vacuamoenia’s “Panphonia”

Panphonia is the sound of the everything, a circular whole that comes out and returns in the reality that generated it. Panphonia is an electro-acoustic composition based on field recordings of a particular type of abandoned soundscape: the rural villages built during fascism in Sicily, the Borghi; the composition is born to consider as demiurgical …