ON SOUND/IN SOUND
24/08/2023.
Composition and sound design.
The piece was played at Gallery 46 for the launch event of LIMINALITY [A FRIENDLY ABYSS] in London, a series of exhibitions and events featuring cross-disciplinary works comprising of visual-sound performance.
Chant was originally created to evoke a tense and alarming, while preserving a welcoming and mysterious mood. Halfway through, the strings emerge from the low-end frequency drones, intending to indicate an eerie, otherworldly atmosphere. One could argue that the composition exhibits a centrifugal trait as the horror-like strings repetitively sprawl out, aiming to convey a sense of peculiar and hyperreal territorial formation.