Joseph Kamaru a.k.a. KMRU, who also contributed a piece to »Sounds of Absence«, uses the album »Temporary Stored« for a critical intervention regarding the appropriation, archiving and musealisation, i.e. commodification of the artefacts of former colonies by institutions of the global North. For this, he works with the sound archive of the Royal Museum of Central Africa and regards the sounds used as connecting lines between different generations or the past and the future. Thus, the six individual pieces as well as the 50-minute radiophonic piece represent an artistic historical criticism while they also question the conditions of historiography as such.
Speaking of the future, Frédéric Acquaviva asked 124 musicians to record a single note on an instrument of their choice for a mammoth project, the sound art piece »[səminal]«, which was recently released on CD. The sounds were arranged as a piece of music that (under-)scores a narrative of the end of the world—and thus of history in general—performed by the vocalists Jacques Lizène, Joan La Barbara, Loré Lixenberg, ORLAN and Wills Morgan. They first take us 10,000, then more than 50 billion years into the future. Just as Acquaviva's piece, created between 2020 and 2021, could, like »Sounds of Absence«, be understood as a reaction to concrete current circumstances, it also poses the question of the all-too-human construction of historiography in general, much like »Temporary Stored« does.
Before the earth's magnetic field goes out and a huge meteorite wipes it away entirely, however, there is still some time left for the following 16 records and three books that we would like to recommend to you.
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