Life Without The Human Look

by Canilla from Berlin, Germany

Ambient Experimental Other

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Canilla is engaged in a technology of the mouth and a memory of the hand. She forms a garment of sonic rhymes, stories of the mule, the music from the past and other memories tied to the ocean sea. Shipwrecks are transformed into flower beds whilst love ballads are sung from wounded forests about bark-beetles and their traces engraved into the bark of trees threatened with extinction. A humming of afterlives depict time buried in cracks and other residues of lived life.

Behind the stories pumps a mechanical heart, a structure based on creations of dismantled accordions played with an altered mechanical system. Canilla approaches the instrument as the off-spring of industrial mass-production and music histories, connecting parts of disassembled accordions to DIY electronics. Long durational performative installations constitute sets of arrangements for vocals, synths, accordions, machines, electro-mechanical pneumatics and accordion reeds – they are technical sounding mentalities where listening becomes a field trip through a found environment.