Release Date: 08 April 2021
Label: Sa Recordings / Spitfire Audio Holdings
Packaging Type: Custom Packaging
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5024545922011
Genres: Electronic Experimental
Description
Hainbach erected three huge sculptures (or ‘totems’) from obsolete, once high-end research equipment, taken from nuclear research labs, particle accelerators and grandfather’s sheds. These forgotten relics of scientific progression and milestones of human evolution were repurposed by the artist and given a new lease of life in a completely unforeseen capacity; as musical instruments dubbed the ‘Landfill Totems’.
The juxtaposition of religious, totemic imagery and electronic landfill is, in part, meant to act as a commentary on the environmental cost of progress; what was once the pinnacle of technology quickly becomes unviable and destined for the scrapheap except for the intervention of Hainbach, upcycling and redesigning them as pillars and shrines to the idea that progress doesn’t always have to cause destruction.
Tracklisting
Lea Bertucci
Oliver Patrice Weder
Yair Elazar Glotman
Nyokabi Kariuki
Hainbach
Henrietta Smith-Rolla
Marshall Vincent
Mabe Fratti + Concepcion Huerta
Gordan
Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith
Nurse With Wound
Mieko Shimizu
Filax Stael
The Residents
Fernando Perdomo and Matt Tecu
Bill Gould / Jared Blum
