Synthetic Bird Music
The trees disappeared, as did the inhabitants. Global forest cover has declined by about 10% over the past 20 years, and a third of bird species are expected to disappear by the end of the century. Jakub Juhaszek, head of the Slovak publication of label cards, knows this. Over the years, the record company has built a hall of mirrors of atmospheric and experimental compositions; A glance at his catalog shows him diving into a haunted cave, exploring the rust and snow of the chapel. This work is dedicated to loneliness, intimacy and muffled electronics. Mappa's latest release, Synthetic Bird Music , features 32 pieces of electronic and experimental music with a strong connection to nature. His work ranges from old to new, but has a common interest in organic and electronic synthesis. These are the voices of musicians around the world against the ongoing climate disaster.
At the beginning of the 20th century, professional whistlers - whistlers - performed vaudeville and went into the forest, mocked thrushes and played with nightingales. Synthetic Bird Music carries this torch with new relevance, evoking the singing of birds that do not exist and accompanying those that do exist. Slow songs and mesmerizing synth work dominate, while elegiac keyboards cut down on the crowd they tend to emulate. In “La Guardian de lasondas radiuses 1” (“Guardian of the Radio Waves”), Macaquinha del Amor (aka Tomas Tello) covers the calls of birds with a blanket of static and high frequencies. Chmota's "Irekle Qoştar" takes a bird's song and amplifies the distortion until it becomes the transmission of a dying radio amateur. Much of the collection works like this: it's a swan plunging into the uncanny valley between the real and the imaginary, the beautiful and the disturbing.
The music of synthetic birds defines the world of visions of birdsong and their accompaniment: industrial sound technology ("Vögel Unserer Heimat" Native Instruments), the lost atmosphere of the Fourth World ("Harpusta / Tarjous" Tomutonttu), avian post-rock ("Sonderbare Baldruin"). Ereignise am "Lake Hillier") and a terrifying synth workout ("Wild Birds of Bluesealand" by Mike Cooper). The album brings together artists from many places - Bratislava and Berkshire, San Francisco and Sydney - but each work is unspoken. ... it seems like part of a narrative, an atlas full of imaginary landscapes.
