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Siavash Amini

Caligo

Label: Room40

Format: CD

Genre: Electronic

Preorder: Releases July 121th 2025

€13.50
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"What remains after mutilating and reassembling an essential historical recording? How is it connected to a particular event in a grotesque and cyclical novella riddled with medical procedures of an aesthetic and deforming nature? Malakoot – this spiral, centres on a decision made one afternoon by a character. On a similar afternoon, full of anxiety, pressed by an unknowable presence in this city , I decided that the soundscape for such an inspiring work of fiction was a mutilated one; things collapsing in on themselves, self-decapitating, full of cuts and sutures.

The material for all the surgeries was two of the earliest solo piano recordings in Iran's history , played by an incredibly ordinary but, at the same time, fascinatingly suspicious character. The procedures were performed both on the snippets and cuts of the recordings themselves and with the help of various digital methods, on synthesized resurrections made from their transcriptions." - Siavash Amini 

Details
Cat. number: RM4249
Year: 2025
Notes:
Monochrome printing, embossed, matt celo coated edition with insert. All proceeds from MONOAkuma will be used to fund research and preservation attempts for the Tasmanian Devil; which in recent years has suffered greatly due to effects of a transmissible facial cancer. Recorded live at MONO, Institute of Modern Art Thursday May 10 2012, Brisbane.