HOT CONVERSATION - Falt records
https://falt.bandcamp.com/album/hot-conversation
Hot Conversation is a sound research project with strong conceptual connotations, exploring the relationship between language, nature, and perception through a radically personal and poetic approach. The work is based on a take of field recordings made in Monferrato with a portable recorder (Zoom), raw material that was then processed into a composition to generate an immersive and transfigured acoustic dramaturgy.
The starting point is the invention of an improvised and abstract language, a sort of expressive glossolalia, with both a communicative and ritual function. This sound code, devoid of recognizable syntax, acts as a vehicle for an erotic/esoteric relationship with the natural environment, activating an altered perceptual dimension in which the voice (human and non-human) dissolves into the sounds of the landscape.
The matrix of the project is surrealist: the intent is not so much to document a place as to transfigure it, evoking a parallel reality that emerges through the interaction between sound and imagination. In this sense, Hot Conversation is part of the tradition of situated sound practices, but alters their documentary assumptions in favor of a psychedelic, visionary, and deeply subjective experience.
The album represents an escape from linguistic and urban rationality: a search for primary and sensory contact with the environment, where sound becomes a device for accessing other dimensions, between intimacy and transcendence. The result is a layered, introspective, and disturbing listening experience that traverses liminal emotional states in search of a secular and contemporary rituality capable of generating meaning, healing, and catharsis.
The element of ritual is central: each track is configured as an act of invocation, a sound liturgy composed of voices, silences, natural noises, and distorted acoustic signals. The acoustic landscape of Monferrato is therefore not just a backdrop, but an active agent in the construction of the sound experience—participating in an interaction that tends toward the fusion of subject and environment.
In continuity with the cassette release of the same name published by Falt, this new iteration of Hot Conversation deepens the process of hybridization between environmental recording, vocal improvisation, and compositional treatment, situating itself in a liminal territory between sound art, acousmatic music, and vocal performance.
https://falt.bandcamp.com/album/hot-conversation
Hot Conversation is a sound research project with strong conceptual connotations, exploring the relationship between language, nature, and perception through a radically personal and poetic approach. The work is based on a take of field recordings made in Monferrato with a portable recorder (Zoom), raw material that was then processed into a composition to generate an immersive and transfigured acoustic dramaturgy.
The starting point is the invention of an improvised and abstract language, a sort of expressive glossolalia, with both a communicative and ritual function. This sound code, devoid of recognizable syntax, acts as a vehicle for an erotic/esoteric relationship with the natural environment, activating an altered perceptual dimension in which the voice (human and non-human) dissolves into the sounds of the landscape.
The matrix of the project is surrealist: the intent is not so much to document a place as to transfigure it, evoking a parallel reality that emerges through the interaction between sound and imagination. In this sense, Hot Conversation is part of the tradition of situated sound practices, but alters their documentary assumptions in favor of a psychedelic, visionary, and deeply subjective experience.
The album represents an escape from linguistic and urban rationality: a search for primary and sensory contact with the environment, where sound becomes a device for accessing other dimensions, between intimacy and transcendence. The result is a layered, introspective, and disturbing listening experience that traverses liminal emotional states in search of a secular and contemporary rituality capable of generating meaning, healing, and catharsis.
The element of ritual is central: each track is configured as an act of invocation, a sound liturgy composed of voices, silences, natural noises, and distorted acoustic signals. The acoustic landscape of Monferrato is therefore not just a backdrop, but an active agent in the construction of the sound experience—participating in an interaction that tends toward the fusion of subject and environment.
In continuity with the cassette release of the same name published by Falt, this new iteration of Hot Conversation deepens the process of hybridization between environmental recording, vocal improvisation, and compositional treatment, situating itself in a liminal territory between sound art, acousmatic music, and vocal performance.