Furnica

Concept, field recording and composition by Olga Kokcharova

The conceptual work by the Geneva-based artist goes back to a recording situation in which she recorded the sounds of an anthill in the forest. The ants invaded the recording device and gradually destroyed the technical components, leading to increasingly strong glitches that overlay and displace the sounds of the forest until the system collapses at the end of the recording and everything falls silent.

Vinyl, 12”, one-sided,
Screen printed, 12-page, multi-folded cover on grass cardboard designed and printed by Giuseppe de Giacomi
Accompanying text by Pali Meursault. (in E and F)

Mastering: Cedrik Fermont
Lacquer cut: Flo Kaufmann

Speckled Toshe – SPT21-1, 2022

Solo Mute Pan is a reinterpretation of the multi-channel sound installation Solo / Mute / Pan by Laurent Güdel and Olga Kokcharova, which was presented on two floors of the Centre Pasquart in autumn 2022. During the exhibition in Biel/Bienne, the two invited four artists working at the interface between music and visual art to a residency with a concert. This method was adopted again for the edition, and this time Anita, Clara Alloing, Vincent Grimaldi and Mara Krastina were invited to create their own interpretation.

The box set comes in a pretty cardboard box and is accompanied by a text by Antonio Albanese, written as part of the project for this edition. (‘Journal de l’institut pour la recherche appliquée en êkhosémiotique post-humanisme’, 69 x 109 mm, 28pages, perfect binding).

Side A

• Anita – La noire maison (12’34‘’)
• Clara Alloing – Dans la chambre (11’31‘’)
• Laurent Güdel – P/S/M (11’23‘’)

Side B

• Vincent Grimaldi – Inflexions tardives (10’37‘’)
• Māra Krastiņa – Alicu Enbe (4’26‘’)
• Olga Kokcharova – M/P/S (14’56‘’)

– With the support of KBCB: Kunsthaus Biel Centre d’art Bienne

– Graphic design: Vincent Devaud

– Mastering: Cedrik Fermont