Sun People - Sound Sculptures (recorded live @ NerdNights Graz)

While Sun People is usually known for hi-energetic fast mixes of bass music, jungle, juke and footwork this mix for Institute for Sonic Welfare’s NerdNights is on the opposite end. The constant push & pull effect of his usual mutantextures is replaced by a delicate tension "to guide the people of the sun through the grey haze opening the door into an irreal ghost world" (1). As fragile and dangerous as this journey is, so are the very first unsounds heard: Crackles, lo-fi-textures, electronic background noises, modulated sinusoids fading in and out; an ethereal soundscape suddenly grounded in all to familiar everyday sounds. The silence inbetween sounds, the sounds not heard seem even more important than those played. Humming otherworldly voices and the distant tik-tok of a clock, left behind, losing its meaning. This sonic irreality creates its own laws of space-time, the ghostworld is not bound to the continuous and linear progress of time, yet simultaneously in permanent knowledge of transitoriness… of a vibration, a moment, life. At the threshold of the gate a voice repeating “she was a visitor” (2), accompanied by crackling of the record, reminds us that we crossed the barriers between the existent and the non-existent, a boarder we have crossed before and will cross again. For the first time synthetic sounds takeover the atmosphere, highlighted in their artificial otherworldliness. While we “would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed […] a storm is blowing[, …] irresistibly propels [us] into the future.“(3) And large bells in the distance remind us of the impossibility to dwell. The mythical world stretches and contracts, bends and buckles under the pressure of the debris of physical reality, a painful scream, torturing shouts, and spectral whisper accompany us until mumbling voices turn into a single drone.

1: The Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Illistrum
2: Robert Ashley, She Was A Visitor
3: Walter Benjamin, On the concept of history

Text by Lain Iwakura

Tracklist:
Dance Hall Of Shame - No Thinking. No Talking. No Music
Lautsprecher Test - Bestimmung der Abweichungen im Verlauf der Schalldruckkurven zweier Boxen durch direkten Vergleich
Yaki Kandru - Musica con Piedras
Tangerine Dream - Second Movement: Nebulous Dawn
Famadou Don Moye - Scowiefamuja
Siegfried Fink - Metallophonie
Enviroments - Tintinnabulation
The Art Ensemble of Chicago - Illistrum
Akita, Azuma, Haswell, Sakaibara - Ich schnitt mich in den Finger
Nana Vasconcelos - Vozes
Joseph Jarman & Famadou Don Moye - Egwu Yesi Kipaleta
Robert Ashley - She Was A Visitor
Jon Hassell & Brian Eno - Rising Thermal 14° 16' N; 32° 28' E
Michael Obst - Metal Drop Music
Günter Sommer - Hörmusik (2. Teil)
Jasun Martz & The Neoteric Orchestra - The Pillory
Paul Beaver & Bernard L. Krause - Tape Delay
The Flowerpot Men - UG
Second Layer - Japanese Headset
Windy & Carl - Set Adrift
RRR 500 - Untitled Lock Groove

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