Reordering Light Industries

Reordering Light Industries is a collaboration between Swiss-born artist Aris Perdioli and Italian-born artist Felipe Vareschi. Their album examines the interaction between spaces designed for humans and spaces intended for machines. In particular, the duo investigates how machines alter our spaces and what tensions exist between having to cohabitate with machines.

The album was built through a series of performances in which the two artists intertwined their electronic instruments, with the goal of relinquishing control of the composition partially to each other and partially to the instrument. These performances were then spatialized in various residential and industrial environments and re-recorded. Starting from a point of improvisation, the duo used artificial sounds to excite imagined and real spaces around them.

The 36-minute piece continuously moves growling synthesised sound from impossible metallic spaces to large outdoor environments. Electronics take centre stage in the composition, Hard-edge drones and throbbing bass passages tear their way through “real” locations and overwhelm the human-made noise of these spaces.

Previously the site of the artists’ music studio, all spaces used for recording this album are now demolished and repurposed for industrial use. The project is a direct result of the complicated relationships involving spaces where artists are allowed to create and the industrial and urban realities that surround and confine them.