Edición del trabajo audio visual Vikingland 2016 de Ulobit en el sello Audiotalaia.
“Vikingland is the outcome of the exploratory process by Ariel Ninas, Horacio Gonzalez and Xoan-Xil López. This process is the combination of live electronics, real time video processing and the sonorities of the hurdy-gurdy, a medieval instrument present in popular and traditional music along Europe.
The spark that triggers this collaborative project is “Vikingland” a film based on tape recordings of a sailor working at sea by the beginning of the 90s. The tapes and the obscure story behind those lost tapes are the starting point of a project that constructs, depicts and illustrates a whole new story carved in sound, glitch and visual distortion.
Ulobit, use that raw material to build an audiovisual aesthetic around a concrete situation or real-life event. Their work consists on re-apropiating the original material to blur it under contemporary imaginery and technological advance. The interesting point of it is that by doing so, Ulobit serves of a very unique and traditional instrument. It seems that the hurdy-gurdy its a companion in a journey from future to past. Somehow, the particularities of such instruments evoke the need of stepping away form digital culture, seeking for a forgotten past of video tapes and VHS textures.
Through that journey, analogue video serves as the anchor with the past, always splattered by the uncertainty of digital glitch, a reminder of the actual moment. In such a perfect match, the electronics establish a mood and linkage with the nowness. The hurdy-gurdy travels through time, sound and image creating a mesh braiding and tiding all together.
Ulobit, is a very good example of a compact project, a finely crafted proposal that has been evolving through the years and its sending us again, a message that audiovisual experimentation in our country can be found at its finnest”.
All tracks were created, performed and recorded by Ulobit.
Ariel Ninas: Electroacoustic hurdy-gurdy
Horacio González: Video (openFrameworks)
Xoán-Xil López: Electronics (Pure Data)
Collaborators aCentral Folque.
Mastered by Lawrence English.
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www.folque.com
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