Transient Spaces as Impermanent Lines, by Alfredo Costa Monteiro

Transient Spaces as Impermanent Lines

by Alfredo Costa Monteiro

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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.

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released April 5, 2024

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

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