https://youtu.be/XNe2X1PXtDs
https://sluchaj.bandcamp.com/album/in-resonance-with-elsewhere

Charlotte Hug - viola & voice

No overdubbing or electronic modification was used in Track 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9 Composition with multi-track in Track 7 & 8

Recorded 29 - 30.07.2023 in the cultural centre La Prairie, Bellmund (CH) with 3D Audio microphone technology Post-production recording studio Arton, Basel (CH) Recording,
Mixing and mastering Malgorzata Albinska - Frank, sound engineer

Composer-performer & visual artist Charlotte Hug: Shaman of contemporary music.
Reflections on her solo-album «In Resonance with Elsewhere»
This fourth solo album by Charlotte Hug presents the distilled version of a composition commissioned by the Ruhrtriennale in 2022. On that occasion, Hug performed in a huge former machine hall and created various acoustic-imaginary spaces with Son-Icons (expansive Visual-Music on semi-transparent paper, usually painted on both sides with both hands and long brushes; these form the centrepiece of Charlotte Hug's work), with video projections and a staged setting.
The process of capturing this intermedia work on an audio recording was fascinating. Charlotte Hug decided to do the recording in a large hall with an elaborate arrangement of microphones in order to convey the rich spatial quality of the original performance. The result is a multidimensional listening experience that offers a palpable sense of the physical energy, the movement and the dance inherent in Hug's performance.
This album, ‘In Resonance with Elsewhere’, places a greater emphasis, for the first time, on the artist’s voice. Whereas in the earlier albums, the viola was the foundation on which the vocal artistry was built, now the voice is the centre of attention. Charlotte Hug has developed her voice to impressive effect in recent years. Ranging over four octaves, she takes us with her into frenzied chasms, cooing, groaning, giggling and twittering. Like a shaman, as she breathes in and out, she conjures the ebb and flow of the seas (‘Tides’), invoking nature. With her polyphonic singing, a hybrid oscillation between near and far, this side and the other side. Opera-like passages are then added (‘Imagina 2’), perfectly intoned, performed as bright as a bell. Hug LISTENS. She is in perfect resonance with the sounds she produces - although the question arises as to where they come from .......
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