Amazonian Traces of Self
Yifeat Ziv
Amazonian Traces of Self
Boomkat Product Review:
Utterly absorbing recording of experimental vocalist Yifeat Ziv sounding into the Amazonian rainforest, following from her brilliant contributions to David Toop’s super trippy ‘Apparition Paintings’ from early in 2020
‘Amazonian Traces of Self’ was created as a response to the artist’s experience in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest as part of the Labverde artist residence in 2019. It premiered at a David Toop event at Cafe Oto, and is based on a live performance she made at IKLEKTIK in London. Ultimately it sounds like recordings from another time, place or planet, imagining the rainforest’s inherently complex geometries as a natural sounding board, filter and FX unit where her voice can totally get lost and wander with delirious results. Honestly it sounds like we’ve just undergone a heavy DMT ritual and the forest is speaking to us from all directions.
"The forest reverberates my voice. The density of the trees and the thick canopy reflects sound waves and creates an echo as if I was singing in a closed space, maybe a chapel. I didn’t expect it. This echo feels like a mirror, it feedbacks my vocal intervention, reflecting traces of my own sound pollution in the Amazon’s dense soundscape."
--- Yifeat Ziv
"Yifeat Ziv’s voice has intensity and precision but what I really love about it is a searching quality, the feeling that it questions itself as it moves around in space, so the strength of it is not dogmatism or force but a genuine curiosity about where it goes, how it absorbs and is absorbed by other sounds, objects, materials and emptiness."
-- David Toop
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Boomkat Product Review:
Utterly absorbing recording of experimental vocalist Yifeat Ziv sounding into the Amazonian rainforest, following from her brilliant contributions to David Toop’s super trippy ‘Apparition Paintings’ from early in 2020
‘Amazonian Traces of Self’ was created as a response to the artist’s experience in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest as part of the Labverde artist residence in 2019. It premiered at a David Toop event at Cafe Oto, and is based on a live performance she made at IKLEKTIK in London. Ultimately it sounds like recordings from another time, place or planet, imagining the rainforest’s inherently complex geometries as a natural sounding board, filter and FX unit where her voice can totally get lost and wander with delirious results. Honestly it sounds like we’ve just undergone a heavy DMT ritual and the forest is speaking to us from all directions.
"The forest reverberates my voice. The density of the trees and the thick canopy reflects sound waves and creates an echo as if I was singing in a closed space, maybe a chapel. I didn’t expect it. This echo feels like a mirror, it feedbacks my vocal intervention, reflecting traces of my own sound pollution in the Amazon’s dense soundscape."
--- Yifeat Ziv
"Yifeat Ziv’s voice has intensity and precision but what I really love about it is a searching quality, the feeling that it questions itself as it moves around in space, so the strength of it is not dogmatism or force but a genuine curiosity about where it goes, how it absorbs and is absorbed by other sounds, objects, materials and emptiness."
-- David Toop
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