Tag: The Matter of the Soul

Solidarity Fund Hydro published on Kazimdat Records

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The compilation Solidarity Fund · Hydro is published!

We deeply hope with this compilation to receive donations to support the Volunteer Fire Fighting Society, Črna na Koroškem – from a part of Slovenia that was heavily damaged by recent floods.

https://kamizdat.bandcamp.com/album/solidarity-fund-hydro

Solidarity Fund · Hydro
In the wake of devastating floods that hit Slovenia in early August, many find themselves without homes and irreplaceable memories. In partnership with Kamizdat Label, we wish to lend a helping hand to these resilient people by curating an online audio compilation that features the generous contributions of artists who have donated their music to this cause. All financial contributions from the sale of the compilation will be sent to the flood relief fund of the Volunteer Fire Fighting Society, Črna na Koroškem. Our hearts go to those who depend on gestures of solidarity at the time of our planetary transformations.

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Solidarnostni sklad · Hidro

Po uničujočih poplavah, ki so Slovenijo prizadele v začetku avgusta, so mnogi ostali brez domov in nenadomestljivih spominov. V sodelovanju z založbo Kamizdat želimo tem vztrajnim ljudem ponuditi pomoč s spletno zvočno kompilacijo, na kateri so zbrani prispevki umetnikov, ki so za ta namen darovali svojo glasbo. Vse finančne prispevke od prodaje kompilacije bomo nakazali v sklad Prostovoljnega gasilskega društva Črna na Koroškem. Naša srca so z vsemi, ki so odvisni od solidarnostnih gest v času naših planetarnih sprememb.


OR poiesis · Tsuki no jūryoku
Brandon LaBelle · Planetary Listening
Brane Zorman · The Tree Spirits I Touch (excerpt)
Bojana Šaljić P. · The Last Animal / Ujjayi *
Toni Dimitrov · A Night at Letea
Karmen Ponikvar · Look, the snowflakes are moving upwards (excerpt)
Mauricio Valdés San Emeterio · Ejarbe **
Dronišnica · It’s Time to Drink Water
Kikiriki · Drop
Brgs · Mushroom Therapy (remix)
Irena Pivka · EchoWalk
Kat Austen · Multifurcation (Movement 4 from The Matter of the Soul Symphony)
Hugo Lioret · Interchange [43.961436, 1.019804]
Lena Ortega · Dandelion
David Bilek · Intermezzo for a Confused Dragonfly
mʊdʌki · soft txt I
mʊdʌki · soft txt II
Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec · Lost Algoritmhs
Saša Spačal · Anatomy of a Symbiosis: Slicing 12
Miha Godec · Echoing Tides
Shekuza · Stay Strong
AGF · Elemental Slovenia
Zergon · Pralik
Sujevera · River Tensions
Manja Ristić · Schwarze Aist [Austrian––Czech Borderlands, July 2023]
Luka Prinčič ·coHydrogen
beepblip · Voluminous Movement of a Watery Earth (excerpt)
Robertina Šebjanič · hydro_Agitations

* Ocean breath 

** Increase of the volume of water in rivers due to heavy rainfall.

credits

released September 1, 2023

Robertina Šebjanič, Ida Hiršenfelder · curators, graphic design
Luka Prinčič · mastering
Luka T. Zagoričnik, Luka Prinčič · executive production, promotion

City of Ljubljana · financial support

cat.no: KAM067

Produced by Emanat
Released by Kamizdat
kamizdat.si

created by
AGF — antyegreie.com
beepblip (Ida Hiršenfelder) — beepblip.org
Brandon LaBelle — brandonlabelle.net
Brane Zorman — www.branezorman.si
Brgs — jakaberger.com
Bojana Šaljić P. — www.facebook.com/bojana.saljic
David Bilek — soundcloud.com/davidbilek
Dronišnica — soundcloud.com/droni-nica
Hugo Lioret — hugolioret.com
Irena Pivka — www.irenapivka.si
Kat Austen — www.katausten.com
Karmen Ponikvar — soundcloud.com/karmen_p
Kikiriki — kikiriki.bandcamp.com
Lena Ortega — www.leenalee.net
Luka Prinčič — lukaprincic.si
Manja Ristić — manjaristic.bandcamp.com
Mauricio Valdés San Emeterio — soundcloud.com/mauricio-valdes-san-emeterio
Miha Godec — godec.art
mʊdʌki — www.works.io/polina-khatsenka
OR poiesis — orpoiesis.blogspot.com
Robertina Šebjanič — robertina.net
Saša Spačal — www.agapea.si/en/
Shekuza — soundcloud.com/shekuza
Sujevera — www.instagram.com/_sujevera_/
Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec — www.taogvs.org
Toni Dimitrov — elanvital.bandcamp.com
Zergon — zergon.org

Presenting at the Royal Geographical Society “Listening to water by subverting measurement”

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Photo: Roger Pimenta

In 2017 Kat went to Nunavut in the Arctic on a residency with Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, to carry out artistic research into the reaction of ice and water to the climate crisis through sound. It was for this residency that Kat developed circuit bent instruments from scientific equipment usually used to measure chemical and physical properties of water, like temperature and acidity. Kat used these to listen to the process of measurement, as a comment on not only the rapidly changing Arctic environment, but also the datafication of human relations to environmental catastrophe.

The resulting work, The Matter of the Soul, has been featured on the BBC and performed around the globe including at COP24 in 2018 as part of the Greenpeace ClimateHub in Katowice.

Kat has gone on to apply these instruments to many other environments and ecosystems, including Lausitz for This Land Is Not Mine and liminal landscapes as part of my compositions for Mapping Gender.

She will be presenting this work on 31st August as part of the Sounding Elements convened by Samuel Hertz, Sasha Englemann and Indira Lemouci at the Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference.

counter/knowledge at MORE WORLD conference

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Kat’s work has been featured by Berliner Gazette as one of their Impulses for their 20th Anniversary MORE WORLD feature, which explores the role of collectivity in addressing climate change.

At the MORE WORLD conference this October, Kat will participate in and feature a short performance from The Matter of the Soul, for the COUNTER/KNOWLEDGE track.

Kat will perform one movement from The Matter of the Soul at the Berliner Gazette 20th Anniversary Gala Evening on the 12th October, performance starts at 20:30. Attendance of the performance is free and independent of attending the conference.

10th – 12th October 2019
Center for Arts and Urbanistics (ZK/U)
Berlin, Germany

Registration is open until 1st September 2019.

The Matter of the Soul at L’Eau en Movement

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The Matter of the Soul | Symphony video will be screened on 28th May at Surfrider Foundation for L’eau en movement, conception de la matière curated by Ateliers Avenue de la Milady, Biarritz as part of Fête de la Nature Biarritz. The evening line-up is:

Première Partie – Creasy John : 20h – 21h
Source – Guillaume YoMk : 21h – 22h
Matter of the Soul – Kat Austen : 22h – 23h

More info on their website and the Facebook event

Surfrider Foundation Europe
33 Allée du Moura, 64200 Biarritz

concentration | The Matter of the Soul at Kosmetiksalon Babette

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Kat will be headlining the Deep Sea – Empathie performance night at Café Kosmetiksalon Babette in the beautiful Kindl Brauerei building, with a performance of concentration | The Matter of the Soul.

9th May 2019 @ 10pm
Café Kosmetiksalon Babette
Am Sudhaus 3
12053 Berlin

Performances start at 7pm with Alice Münch, Karl Karner, Manfred Peckl.

 

Playing Arctic water at Climate Hub, COP24 for Greenpeace PL, Katowice, December 2018

Music video screening at Architecture and the Senses, Plasy Monastery

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14th October 2018
National Technical Museum – Center for Architectural Heritage Plasy,
Plasy Monastery, Czech Republic

The video for  biphasic | The Matter of the Soul, will be screened for the first time at Architecture and the Senses, a symposium organised by the Agosto Foundation at National Technical Museum – Center for Architectural Heritage Plasy, Mathey Hall, Plasy Monastery, Opatská konírna.

biphasic is the first movement of The Matter of the Soul symphony. This three-part symphony explores the relationship between human movement and the dispersal of Arctic water, creating in the process digital artefacts that disperse online. It is an elaboration of identity and meta-identity in the shifting times of climate crisis, interweaving socio-politics, individual needs and desires, and global impacts of human activity.

In biphasic, two discrete entities exist alongside each other, but not together, not mixing.

The Matter of the Soul | Symphony will première in its entirety at Howard Assembly Rooms, Opera North in Leeds, UK, on the 23rd October.  Tickets available here.

First remix: Conductivity samples used by London composer

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London-based composer John Morrison has used the conductivity meter sound recordings from The Matter of the Soul, available on Github under CC-BY-SA 4.0 license, as inspiration for his beautiful piece The Realities We Play. You can hear the characteristic rise and fall of the instrument throughout this haunting work, and most clearly at the very end.

This is the first time to my knowledge that the samples have been reused by another musician, an important step in the morphing and dispersal of The Matter of the Soul’s online identity, central to the work.