Artists Stand Up For Covid-19 Relief By Audiovisual Compilation ‘Solace’
The audiovisual compilation ‘Solace’ is founded by the global community of musicians and visual artists based in NYC, the current epicenter of Covid-19.
This compilation features unreleased audiovisual art works, live recordings, and composition of 11 projects contributed by 14 artists who are based and from all over the world coming together to support the organization fighting against Covid-19, through our creative expression and fundraising.
100% of the proceeds will be donated to The International Rescue Committee (IRC). The IRC is providing lifesaving programs to the most vulnerable communities especially hit hard by the pandemic.
This project is entitled ‘Solace ‘ meaning comfort or consolation in a time of deep distress. ‘Solace’ is the reflection of what music and visual art has meant to people while being in isolation and social distancing during the pandemic. ‘Solace’ symbolizes the hope for a renewed creativity and inventiveness in all of us during this time of crisis.
Curated by Testu Collective + ÉMU, this compilation was born out of the need to express the immensity of the crisis and the profound loss that we all feel, but find hard to articulate into words. Music and art have been our solace. We hope that you might escape for just a bit through our sonic and visual pieces.
‘Solace’ available to purchase on Bandcamp :
https://testucollective.bandcamp.com/album/solace
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‘Solace’ Excerpt
This is an excerpt of the album.
The full version available on Bandcamp.
https://testucollective.bandcamp.com/album/solace
Track 01 : Silent Resistance by ÉMU
The first artist feature on our audiovisual compilation,’Solace’, is Maria Takeuchi aka ÉMU, a multi-instrumental music producer, audio+visual artist. She is also the co-curator of this compilation.
Comment :
Everyone is suffering while the pandemic, the problems are caught closer to our consciousness. We, humankind, have to use our ability to change our circumstances to coexist with nature, while sustaining our scar of the great sacrifice.
Deep condolences to the beautiful lost soul. Sincere gratitude to the people who put their lives to help others. While the creativity heals ourselves as an artist, I hope you may also find a small joy from our art.
Music and Video by ÉMU
www.maria-takeuchi.com
@emuaudiovisual
Track 02 : 20200426 by Impakt
The second artist feature on our audiovisual benefit compilation,’Solace’, is Sarah Pak, aka Impakt. She is a New York-based creative whose work includes audiovisual installations, pop music, and code.
Comment :
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been trying make sense of the strange mix of emotions I’ve felt throughout the pandemic. Frustration, a sense of helplessness and nihilism, obsessiveness, and every so often, a quiet sense of calm. I wanted to capture these moments in sound and image.
Music and Video by Impakt
linktr.ee/im_pakt
@im_pakt
Track 03 : Solar by Night Shining
The third artist feature on our audiovisual compilation,’Solace’, is Night Shining, the musical project of Mike Romeo. He is a musician, digital artist, and sound designer living and working in New York. His performances include live manipulated audio and visual elements running with custom built software.
Comment :
As a New Yorker I’m filled with pride yet I am fearful for the future of the city and surrounding areas. I grew up just outside the city on Long Island where unfortunately just lost an elderly family member to the virus. My performance ‘Solar’ is dedicated in memory of my Great Aunt Mary Rizzuto.
Music and Video by Night Shining
www.instagram.com/_nightshining/
Track 04 : Morena Sarzo x ONLAND
The fourth artist feature on our audiovisual benefit compilation,’Solace’, is Morena Sarzo. She is an Italian creative video director, who currently lives and works in Lyon, France. Morena’s poetic versatile productions continue, in addition to short films such as Soliloquio and Protagoniste, while involved in the field of 3D animation and 3D scanning.
Music by Venezia based ambient dronw artist, ONLAND
Comment :
The nocturnal road in front of my eyes, even if it were daytime, would still be deserted and silent. I listen to the “street”, what does this silence tell me? What is underneath it?
Our space has closed in upon us in our homes and the greenery and wildlife seem to have fewer boundaries: we should listen to their voice. I would like to learn this music, this new language (which is silence).
An inverted root, with an opposing movement pushes something beyond the human. Listen to this voice. Dream (at last) inside this voice. To see that the emptiness of man inside these voices is music. It opens another “way”.
Video by Morena Sarzo, Music by ONLAND
vimeo.com/user4021203
www.onlandsound.com
@morena.sarzo
@drone.guardone
Track 05 : Transience by Paloma Kop
The fifth artist feature on our audiovisual benefit compilation,’Solace’, is Paloma Kop, an electronic media artist born in NY.
Her work combines experimental hardware techniques and electronic signals with computer programming, digital image processing, and web-based media. Paloma is especially interested in feedback loops and other phenomena that can result in self-propagation and evolution through iterative processes. Layers of abstract audio and visual material form serene spatial environments that manifest in single and multi channel compositions, durational performances, and installations.
Comment :
I am currently an MFA student in my final semester of study. Over the past two years, I’ve been working toward a thesis exhibition this spring, which has now been cancelled. I live alone in the rural town where my school is. Now that all the undergraduate students have been sent home, it is very quiet and empty. I have been taking long walks in the woods. I am looking forward to moving back to the city and seeing my friends again.
Music and Video by Paloma Kop
palomakop.tv
@palomakop
Track 06 : 0515235620 by Toru Izumida
The sixth artist feature on our audiovisual benefit compilation,’Solace’, is Toru Izumida, an audio & visual artist who graduated from the Musashino Art University in Tokyo, Japan in 2010, and currently lives and works in New York.
His live A/V set is programed visuals have many layers reactive to live sounds. In 2019, he presented his live A/V sets at //Dreamlands presented by Testu Collective x Ideal Glass Studios. On the other hand, He is an organizer of 0 // 2019 Public Visuals that is the live A/V event in Brooklyn, NY. His visual artworks have been exhibited at World Art Dubai (2015), ISEA (2015), and as part of solo and group exhibitions in New York, Mexico City, and Tokyo.
Comment :
Stay home and have fun the audiovisuals! I made the track in 2011. And now I connected it with visuals made last year. 2020 is a very weird year. But other hands, it gave me the time to look back on my past.
Music and Video by Toru Izumida
www.toruizumida.com
@toruizumida
Track 07 : Sound Collage Dub 01 by circler
The seventh artist feature on our audiovisual benefit compilation,’Solace’, is Kiyonori Sudo aka circler. He is a multi-disciplinary creative, audio-visual artist, DJ, and event organizer, based in NY from Japan. He samples and creates a sound collage with nostalgic and ethnographic soundscapes with analog and digital gear.
Comment :
“Music is Power” When I can’t give you hug from Covid-19 pandemic, I can send our audiovisuals set.
Music and Video by circler
www.residentadvisor.net/dj/circler
@circlerrr
Track 08 : Fragility by insomniac hotel x xuzi
“Playing music from a young age, Alec Fellman aka insomniac hotel has always been drawn to the emotional connections and healing power of music. insomniac hotel creates using modular synthesizer and singing bowls, along with found/made natural objects, and conventional instruments.
The visual is created by xuzi, a coding artist with a delicate minimal touch.
The duo has been creating meditative, sensory experiences under the project Journeys in Sound and Light.”
Comment :
fragility represents the awareness of old, failing systems,
and the frailty of new ones born between their cracks.
Music by insomniac hotel, Video by xuzi
www.instagram.com/insomniachotel/
www.instagram.com/xuzi_af/
Track 09 : Gazes Grises by Gabor
Gabor creates ambient music with beautiful minimal sound elements for the comfort of ears and mood.
He is a co-frounder of French based record label Mesma Records, also a talented graphic designer.
Comment :
This is a song that I composed while in confinement in New York City—a place I’d never thought I’d experience so quiet. For once, it’s been easy to sit down and complete an entire piece from home, while elsewhere pain and turmoil persist.
I’m humbled to be part of such a project, put together by people who I admire—who have lately called to mind the idea of ‘Scenius’, coined by Brian Eno. How ironic, as we find ourselves now apart. All my thoughts go out to those suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic and to those working tirelessly, regardless of the conditions set for them or against them.
Music by Gabor
Photograph by Pinelopi Gerasimou
mesmarecords.bandcamp.com/album/bibelots-ep
@gabrielmester
Track 10 : phoneme 3AM by Fernando Molina
Fernando is an architect and audiovisual artist.
Develops his career as an architect working in the field of public and private work. Participates in national and international competitions being awarded locally and in Spain, Japan and the United States.
He develops audiovisual projects of a performative nature and audioreactive whose plural edges and even diametrically opposed, all go through a search in its visualization, design and morphology through the use of machines, media digital and computer.
His work has been exhibited and represented in Buenos Aires, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Barcelona, Rome and New York; and at the Mutek and Live Performers Meeting Festivals.
Comment :
… the intangible became strangely a threat, the invisible forced us to remain isolated and strips us naked …
For the first time we forced ourselves to see each other, to not be able to look away, in the least usual way.
Music and Video by Fernando Molina
www.instagram.com/fermolinabrac/
@fermolinabrac
Track 11 : surface tension by Testu Collective
The last track of ‘Solace’ is by Testu Collective, co-curator of the project. Testu Collective is an interdisciplinary art group founded by Dan Tesene and Serena Stucke in 2017. Formed in New York City, Testu creates experimental videos, live a.v. installations / performances, and concept soundtracks.
This duo has created incredible ideas and mind-blowing art works. Also they have been helping Atta Inc. by making the medical face shields and delivered 2000 to the front line health care workers in NY.
Comment :
The world has changed as we know it. The pandemic has allowed us to create and invent in ways we never imagined. This audiovisual piece is born from the tiny moments of escape that we’ve had to create music and visual art.
Music by Serena Stucke, Video by Dan Tesene
www.testucollective.com
@testucollective
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