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[sound art]
An ambient, meditative sonic journey that takes you on a train trip within your inner thoughts. It was created during my Extratonal Residency #01 part of Platform for Extratonality, hosted at Varia (Rotterdam, the Netherlands). With this project, I have created a sonic EP of 7 tracks, 1 video, and a performance at Varia where I shared the artworks.
I’ve spent quite some time on trains during the last few years. I prefer them to any other type of transportation and they have a therapeutic impact on me. They have rhythm, soundscapes, and beautiful sights. The inner silence here is placed on top of those many layers that help you get deep inside yourself and your thoughts. Usually, those moments are full of reflection - memories surfacing from the depts, fantasies circulating your near future in a different place, plans you're trying to make.
While creating the sonic works, I reflected on the inner thoughts that emerged while travelling alone and expressed my reflections through sound. I explored relations between time, movement, train travel, inner thoughts, memories, anticipations and ways of experiencing the journey. These sonic artworks lie on the borderline between ambient music, sonic art, field recordings, and experimentation. Each sonic piece comes with a short poem - it is written as lyrics and also visualised on the picture of each track.
▶▶ Listen to the album release show on radio WORM
▶▶ Documentation
▶▶ Listen on Bandcamp
▶▶ Listen on Spotify
▶▶ Listen on Tidal
▶▶ Listen on Apple Music
▶▶ Listen on iTunes
▶▶ Video