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October 21, 2017 Nordic Affect, Transit Festival Leuven, Belgium
In urbex we find the exploration and excavation of hidden, lost, abandoned, forgotten, and decayed ruins of cities. In this work urbex is absorbed and recast for chamber music, melding visual and sonic footage with live ensemble. The ‘sound of’ secret passageways and reverberant man-made caves, hidden trapdoors, wrong turns, labyrinthine pathways, musty wallpaper, precipitous stairwells to nowhere, creeping spectres, and provoked phantoms are depicted in this work, the second in my Urbex series. What I perceive as offshoots of the phenomenon: primitive GPS systems, google maps, and 8-bit simulations are also integrated as musical and visual building blocks over which the human players climb and explore. The title references the golden rule of urbex: Take Nothing but Pictures, Leave Nothing but Footprints, Break Nothing but Silence; alluding to the dangerous and illegal connotations associated with the activity. It is understood that one who partakes in urbex only to vandalize, steal, or destroy is not a true urban explorer.
Nicole Lizée Montreal, 2017
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