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MONTEIRO, ALFREDO COSTA - Transient Spaces as Impermanent Lines

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Sublime Retreat - SR019 Release Year: 2024 Note: one long experimental piece (49 min.) with interesting concept: comparable to similar ideas in "psychogeographic" cinema, found sounds have been used and arranged wtih no direction or planned narrative, in order to create a state of disorientation... "no other purpose than a mindful wander... Like a soundtrack for a non-existent movie" - expect the unforesee(listen)able ! Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00 More Info Transient spaces as impermanent lines was composed as a sonic drift with no other purpose than a mindful wander. This lack of direction, expressed through a hypothetical narrative, shapes an itinerary through different sound atmospheres carried by the materiality of sound and thus creating variable emotional states close to disorientation; exactly as in a psychogeographical drift, which implies a certain renunciation of what to expect, depending on each space where this underlying narrative evolves. It is a piece for found sounds, inspired by the found footage technique in experimental cinema, where images, often from anonymous sources are shown as if they were edited in a narrative by those who literally found them. Like a soundtrack for a non-existent movie, it could be compared to a piece of cinéma pour l'oreille (cinema for the ear), literally applying the French expression donner à voir (something like "allow to see"), but with sound as its means. All the sounds were compiled during the first three months of the process; the source of most of these sounds has been intentionally forgotten in order to empty them both of their psychological and contextual content. Composed, assembled and mastered by Alfredo Costa Monteiro at Mont Efímer between september 2022 and june 2023. Photos by Alfredo Costa Monteiro Sleeve by Rutger Zuydervelt • Glass-mastered CD • Mini-LP sleeve • Printed outer and inner sleeves with matt finish • Designed by Rutger Zuydervelt • Sealed https://sublimeretreat.bandcamp.com/album/transient-spaces-as-impermanent-lines