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After their first successful collaboration "Further Consequences of Reinterpretation", the sound artists Paulo Raposo and Marc Behrens have created a new dynamic sound work entitled HADES.
HADES is based on sound recordings made aboard Lisbon ferries and at the
quays of Cais do Sodré, Trafaria and Cacilhas 2001-2005. Both artists had initially
set out to record independently, being fascinated with the sounds of the ship hull
and landing gear, as well as with the actual passage on the river, which gives a
magnificent (maybe the best) view on large parts of the old city of Lisbon.
During the course of the work which took three years to complete, some more
precisely directed recordings were made together.
Understanding the actual crossing as a symbolic passage, and once it was
reduced to sound and memory, it became associated to the crossing of the mythic
river Styx to enter Hades, the ancient Greek underworld.
As the different sound recordings provide the artists with very diverse material (for
example low frequencies from the ship's hulls and motors, high frequencies and
beats from the gates at Cais do Sodré), they understand the composition as
hovering on the delicate borderline between a soundscape portrait and a multi-
strata arrangement, in which things happen parallelly, and individual layers move
on more than one path simultaneously.
In the opinion of and/OAR, HADES is not only one of the strongest works to surface
from either artist, a/O will go out on a limb to state that it could very well set a new
precedent of quality for collaboration work of it's ilk.
Listen preferably in headphones!
label site: http://www.and-oar.org
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