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Zines Collection, Pack of Six
Six riso-printed zines (20 to 24 pages each) designed by Diana Romanova, all packed into white matte ziplock with aluminum foil inside. Includes release info card and download codes.
Shchelkovo-based artist and sound researcher Diana Romanova appears on Klammklang with her debut «Exercice d'écoute non-humaine». Despite being composed out of multitude field recordings, it seems unnecessary to talk about this record as a collection of documented sound events or in a context of sound ecology. It is not about original sound sources or sonic preservation at all. It is about listening – the specific listening mode that makes me forget causal listening has ever excited.
/ . .
I open it. I am waiting.
It is happening twice. Stops.
Arises – rustling and soft.
Blows.
Crackles.
Dies.
Not happening.
Absent.
Reappearing. The tiniest
sound
feels
like
a deafening
explosion.
. _
Exercice d'écoute non-humaine is a reflection on sounds beyond human hearing, not in a way that is not accessible to humans, but in a way that almost changes my organic structures, makes me transform into something beyond. In order to turn me into this extreme phenomenological listener, Diana’s compositions remain demanding. They do not guide me, they more likely show me the entry point – mutating and developing, they make me slow down, wait, live throughout blind spots, prick up my ears. It is the question of my attention how much of Diana’s sound universe I am capable to hear, see and feel with all my senses. When I am lucky to switch on this specific perception mode, while waiting in delusive «absence», trying to catch sounds and succeeding in it, I become more present than ever.
Being a synesthetic person, Diana talks about how she hears visual objects, sees sound or uses body in her practice to dance the music sometimes. In this case, six zines with its minimalistic graphics, replacing the conventional media such as cassettes, CDs and vinyl, feel the most non-obvious and fitting solution. Six zines are media for the six tracks, they give not guidelines but another entry. I am flipping though pages, I hold my gaze on the black spots. I hear dots. All my feelings are active. It is hard to imagine more correct representation of this music – resounding silence, restrained events that to the end feel massive and dense, than white space of the sheet and small drawn objects. I can literally touch the music pieces, participate even without playback. It is reflections on sounds beyond human hearing for sure, the sounds that should not be produced to remain sounds.
Fades away.
. .
I return to the real world, steady, attentive. I am an active subject, and from now I hear, see and feel more.
credits
released October 15, 2021
All music is written and performed by Diana Romanova, except for track 5 featuring Elina Bolshenkova (voice).
Words by Elina Bolshenkova.
Album cover, designs and zines by Diana Romanova.
Zines printed at ESH PRINT www.eshprint.com
Mastered by Diana Romanova and Stas Sharifullin.
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