Greek ἀκούσματα translates as ,,heard’’ but also ,,collections’’. It is a collection of statements that were treated both as a source of specific knowledge and as a slogan explaining the complex reality. Pythagoras used them at the turn of the 6th and 5th centuries B.C. Supposingly his students had to remain silent for five years and could not see their master. It was thought the view of the speaker, distracted the listeners and did not let them concentrate fully on the transferred knowledge. Much later, in the twentieth century, the French composer Pierre Schaeffer reminded about acousmatic experiences - listening to sounds in isolation from their sources. On the basis of his experiments, musique concrète was born. This record is an attempt to face these traditions. Selected artists were asked to show their way to blurring the sources of sounds that in the process of experimenting, processing lose their meaningful luggage and become something that must be imagined anew. Akusmata.
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released May 17, 2019

1. PAULINA MIU: The Howling Cell
The Howling Cell. An animal, lightning, wind and silence live in me. I am a cell dance, a vibration that you can listen to. My voice causes small earthquakes to get to the other side, get under the skin. It is full of wolf fur and softens with jelly jelly. Doubles, triples, pupates, endlessly. My voice looks for its ancestors, tries to invite them, invoke them, arrange a meeting. How many millions of creatures lived in front of me and what sounds fell into their ears? Where were they and what my own ears heard before they took shape and came to the surface?
PAULINA MIU. A performer, voice situation designer, composer, singing instructor. She listens to the world, taking care of the phenomena occurring in her sound tissue. She improvises and experiments. She specializes in alternative vocal education. She collect.......
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