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Julia Eckhardt

Blanca

Label: Another Timbre

Format: CD

Genre: Experimental

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Eight 5-minute compositions inspired by daily walks taken by Julia Eckhardt during a residency in rural Spain.

"In November 2022, I spent a month as an artist in residency at Centro Negra in the small town of Blanca in the South-East of Spain. I undertook a daily protocol of walking without plan or destination which took me into the wide, majestic, and slightly intimidating hills outside the town. Each day, after a set amount of time I stopped to make a field recording and a detail photo, and upon my return to Centro Negra, recorded an improvisation on the viola echoing the energy of that accidental place. Recording, image and improvisation became three ways of creating imprints of memory. Improvising felt similar to walking into the unknown; adventurous and slightly fearful at the same time, with the wind in the wide and karstic landscape, unhampered by the sparse vegetation, being a constant presence. Eight of these improvisations became the compositions on this release in which the wind patterns of Blanca are a guiding presence."

The disc contains a booklet with a selection of the photographs Julia Eckhardt took on her walks.

Details
Cat. number: at244
Year: 2025
Notes:
Blanca for viola (2024) Special thanks to Elena Azzedín and Hanna Szabo, and the whole of Centro Negra/AADK in Blanca for their support and hospitality. Blanca was premiered on June 7th 2024 at Chapelle du Grand Hospice in Brussels, in the series eye ear organised by Florence Cats. Recorded and mastered by [...] at Chapelle du Grand Hospice in Brussels, autumn 2024.

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