"Ode to Water" by Dr.Goldfinger (field recordings, shortwave frequencies). Light by Vladimir Grafov. It was a live performance at Spectral Perspectives mini-festival, an immersive event of music, light, sound, aroma and taste. (29.07.2017 at Lely, Amsterdam)
Dr. Goldfinger mixes sounds of mountainous rivers and small streams recorded in Siberia, culminating with the white noise of Katun River in Altai and finishing with a thunderstorm in Khakassian village.
Filmed by Arnold Folkerts
Message from the initiators: imagine yourself deepening in a lucid dream, where all your senses are enhanced, where you reflect on them, juggle and play with them. Where you experience the synesthetic qualities of senses by hearing the light and smelling the music. Where you transform yourself by conducting senses and emotional responses while enjoying aesthetic stimuli.
By common knowledge, human perception relies on hearing, taste, smell, vision and touch. We will put this simplistic statement into a subtler empirical context that we call Spectral Perspective. During the event we’ll be carefully combining aesthetic elements of music, sound, light, taste, smell and space to induce a broad spectrum of emotional and mental states.
Our approach is based on the belief that all our receptors sense
waves of various frequencies, just like we see the colours or hear timbres. The senses of different frequencies will intervene and interfere
with each other; they will resonate and phase.
The senses are given to us to orientate better within our reality. They form our reality and consequently they form us. The more our senses are developed the more prolific a vision of reality we can grasp.
Senses are the instruments of our perception, why not be the master or at least a friend of them? Just like a Kung Fu master listening to the sound of reality in the trilling of a dewdrop on the edge of the leaf.
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