Textures of Moisie, by john grzinich

Textures of Moisie

by john grzinich

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	1.	textures of Moisie, part one 16:38
	2.	textures of Moisie, part two 14:56
	3.	textures of Moisie, part three 17:54
	4.	textures of Moisie, part four 10:03

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It has been a long standing interest of mine to attempt to combine sonic analysis, representation and listening practices with the natural geomorphological processes that shape landscapes and define terrestrial habitats. My work with 'Textures of Moisie' was developed during the Crown Shyness residency in August 2023 where I had the opportunity to continue my work geomorphically centred listening. These four compositions reflect not only aspects of the coastal estuary biome but also the larger climactic conditions that influence the geomorphological processes that influence the shaping of the land and the inhabited spaces within it. In addition to location recordings and live processing I collected traces of visual patterning that inspired the movements, structures and flows for the four compositions that make up the four parts of the album (see pdf booklet).

The ‘forces of nature’; water, wind, tectonic, biophysical etc continually affect the living processes that contribute to the ever changing dynamic character of any place. While many of these processes remain abstract to anthropocentric culture due to the extended time and spatial scales in which they happen, real-time experience confines yet fosters our realm of perception. As anthropologist Tim Inglod writes in his essay 'Rethinking the Animate', "In animic ontology, beings do not propel themselves across a ready-made world but rather issue forth through a world-in-formation, along the lines of their relationships". To this I would add… In traversing the world-in-formation, should we not shift our logics from mere self-referential reasoning of human exceptionalism to embracing the degree of entanglement in the continually shifting strata of 'sensory otherness' contained within the morpho- geo- bio- cosmo- logics of planetary life we are immersed in?

More information about my residency here:
maaheli.ee/main/geomorphology-and-auditory-agency-crown-shyness-residency/

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released March 5, 2024

Included in your purchase is the 'Land Scores' PDF booklet

All sounds recorded at Pointe de Moisie and surroundings of Côte-Nord Quebec, August 2023 as part of the La Timidité des Cîmes / Crown Shyness residency project curated by Eric Mattson

Composed and mastered at Maaheli Studio, October-December 2023

Special thanks to Eric, Nicole, Francois, Elico, Sarah, Johanne and the residents of Pointe de Moisie

Travel support provided by EESTI KULTUURKAPITAL

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