Estonia – Eduardo Abrantes

SOME BODY IN THE LANDSCAPE (AND THERE WERE OTHER BODIES) (Mooste/Tallinn, Estonia – Stockholm, Sweden, 2015)

Sound piece composed of voice and manipulated field recordings captured in Mooste and Tallinn, Estonia, during March 2015, and edited in Stockholm and Lisbon during May 2015. Some Body in the Landscape builds upon the impressions of the wandering mind and ear, and deals with pathos and improvisation both in dialogue and in the context of performative intervention in the immersive presence in the surrounding landscape. Commissioned by the interdisciplinary online platform ESC:ALA, (escalanarede.com), the full curated piece is accessible here

photo by Eduardo Abrantes, Mooste 2015

SING-A-LONGING (Mooste/Tartu/Tallinn, Estonia 2015)

Performative sound piece composed from a local choir recording at Mooste and vocal fragments collected from passersby in the streets of Tartu, Estonia, between 16-26 March 2015. Performed at the Crossing Contexts NSU Winter Session at Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn, Estonia. Sing-a-longing was inspired by a radical notion of “site specific” engagement, as the intimate sound field available in direct memory recall, and by the role of choral singing in Estonia’s recent political history, namely the series of events known as the “Singing Revolution”, taking place between 1987-1991, the period leading to the independence of the Baltic states.

photo by Larissa Lilith, Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn 2015