upsammy and Jonathan Castro present ‘Dwell,’ an AV mix mapping the psychological resonance of area through noise.
On Germ in a Population of Buildings, her 2nd album and launching for PAN, Thessa Torsing, the Amsterdam-based artist understood as upsammy, digs even evenmore into her mindful engagement with area through sound, casting detailed sonic geographies through synthesis, tasting and field recoding. It is an album “rooted in her interest for unclear environments in consistent shift,” an elaborate workout in mapping complex surface in oscillation and in doing so revealing the sound, to obtain the title of another of her tasks, of ‘placeness produced.’ Her fixation with states of flux is shared by Peruvian multidisciplinary artist and partner Jonathan Castro.
“Rhythm is a medium of modification,” he informed It’s Nice That, “it makesup a shift – from worry to happiness, from apathy to awareness, from a basic motion to choreography or routine motions, natural and inorganic, varying from dance to breathing, prayer to meditation, drumming to the noise of a heartbeat.” When it came time to put together a live program in assistance of the album, Castro’s synthesis of digital and biological images, scraped and blurred together in pixellated layers, made noticeable the textures and surface of Torsing’s productions. “This video is a extension of the task,” discusses Torsing of ‘Dwell,’ “where we checkout various areas and their affectivity through noise and image.”
Showcasing 4 initial upsammy tracks and a brand-new model of Castro’s live visual system, which was established in partnership with Tharim Cornelisse, ‘Dwell’ is explained by Castro as an “assemblage of our deep interest and affective bond with environment.” Drawing from the verysame well of natural noise style, spedup licks of percussion, sun-dappled synthesis and pitch-shifted whisper that Torsing plumbed for Germ in a Population of Buildings, we are welcomed to review the sounds and psychological resonance of that area. “Sometimes these places are really particular and identifiable, however they can likewise be a texture or represented by a sign,” she describes. “Each place brings a significance which is revealed by various products or voices within the music. Archetypal sounds are utilized as