Leslie 骋补谤肠铆补 and the Sun Ra Archive: Specters of Saturn
Specters of Saturn inaugurates a new stage for the Space for Sound Experimentation, which will now commission pieces based on archival research conducted through the framework of media archaeology. This exhibition presents the Mexican artist Leslie 骋补谤肠铆补鈥檚 intervention in the Sun Ra/El Saturn Collection鈥攁n archive of around 600 tapes and cassettes by the jazz musician Sun Ra鈥攖hrough synthesizers, electronic processing and artificial intelligence.
The archive presents a challenge for listening, selection and mediation, which Leslie 骋补谤肠铆补 articulates in a sui generis fashion by exploring the collection鈥檚 marginalia, rather than its famous tracks or jam sessions, creating a type of sonic diary with no particular order, avoiding a strict genealogical reconstruction. In this marginalia, 骋补谤肠铆补 encounters the phantasmagoria of the archive: the accidents of an unpolished sound document and the accidents to which the tapes were subjected due to the passing of time, before their digitalization.
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Specters of Saturn inaugurates a new stage for the Space for Sound Experimentation, which will now commission pieces based on archival research conducted through the framework of media archaeology. This exhibition presents the Mexican artist Leslie 骋补谤肠铆补鈥檚 intervention in the Sun Ra/El Saturn Collection鈥攁n archive of around 600 tapes and cassettes by the jazz musician Sun Ra鈥攖hrough synthesizers, electronic processing and artificial intelligence.
The archive presents a challenge for listening, selection and mediation, which Leslie 骋补谤肠铆补 articulates in a sui generis fashion by exploring the collection鈥檚 marginalia, rather than its famous tracks or jam sessions, creating a type of sonic diary with no particular order, avoiding a strict genealogical reconstruction. In this marginalia, 骋补谤肠铆补 encounters the phantasmagoria of the archive: the accidents of an unpolished sound document and the accidents to which the tapes were subjected due to the passing of time, before their digitalization.
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