Preludes for the Post-Normal
22m 21s, sound
On display at OTO SOUND MUSEUM from 21 June till 20 July 2021
“The post-normal is for me the time after the so-called normal we have known. A time of fragmentation, of new rules, of settling in, disturbances and contrasts: acceleration and slowing down, distance and proximity, digitality and craft, the inside and outside, anxiety and calmness. It is a time of new beginnings and suspense. A time that we have to discover and gives us the freedom to rethink and to experiment and that is at the same time scary, anxiety-driven and unbalanced.” Magda Drozd
The artist and composer Magda Drozd presents the sound work Preludes for the Post-Normal (2021), a composition made up of 13 different preludes, short pieces known mostly from classical music that become here sound images. Better recognized as intros in the contemporary pop musical contest, preludes do not have a rigid compositional structure and can take a wide array of forms. The work, whose sounds were entirely recorded and composed during this time by the artist, evokes different directions and emotional states. It suggests to us the opportunity of imagining multiple possible beginnings which, in turn, allow us to foresee or invent as many imaginable futures: suspended projections that open gazes in the evolution of time. Preludes for the Post-Normal is indeed a journey through sound visions that invite to enter in different spaces and get projections that call to an elsewhere and suddenly vanish. The work, presented for the first time in OTO SOUND MUSEUM, is made up of different atmospheres and rhythms through organic and metallic sounds, noises collected in nature or the private space, violins, percussion, voices, birds. These preludes can reflect the time we are currently in and, through their suspense character and playing with the concept of ‘post-normality’, leave space for speculation and invention.
OTO SOUND MUSEUM is a space designed to host invisible works. The works constitute a collection of unpublished or recent soundscapes, realized by Swiss and international artists from different generations and practices.
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