Electronic Press Kit
Screen Glare
16-05-2021
The lights of your city flicker even when you are no longer there to feel their glow.
Screen glare is an 8-part sound journey inspired by how light is used to signify the ownership of space. Lighting can completely change the way we perceive space. Individuals control the lighting of their living spaces to fit different activities, businesses illuminate their stores to increase consumption, and governments use lighting to influence social behaviour. Lighting is a highly politicized medium, but it often evades scrutiny because it's taken for granted. Screen Glare aims to open a window into light's political and social significance through the emotional power of sound.
The album transposes the experience of sifting through different lighting environments into sound. Each track sonifies a slice of one's daily routine through the lens of light, from waking up and seeing the morning light filtered through your eyelids, to passing under the yellow street lights in front of your local train station, to watching a movie on your phone before you go to sleep. Each of these unique light environments become sound, and their juxtaposition aims to uncover a novel sense of awareness of how light affects our daily lives.
Screen Glare was composed by Berlin-based sound artist Felipe Vareschi. In the process of making the Album, Felipe developed custom software instruments inspired by the physical and social properties of light. These instruments are now freely available on the Artist's website. Screen Glare releases on the 16th of May 2021 on Bandcamp.
Artist Bio (short form)
Felipe Vareschi is an experimental electronic musician and performer currently based in Berlin. Their music explores the relationship between people and objects, with a particular focus on the interactions between individuals, technology and nature.
Felipe Vareschi is developing a new musical language aimed at understanding and describing how people relate to their surroundings through technology. They implement an experimental approach to sound creation, where interactions between pieces of equipment, sound objects, and performers mimic social human-object interactions. These techniques cover a broad range of approaches, including Generative Algorithmic Composition, Gestural Performance, and Field Recording.
Felipe Vareschi’s music presents itself as a continuous aesthetic study on contemporary social structures. Felipe strongly believes in music’s unique power to provoke discourse around the underlying systems that guide our everyday life.
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