Vinyl – Sergey Kostyrko: Settlers – INVERSIA 002

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Side A
Murmansk Soundscape

Side B
Sounds of Migration

 

Released 25 February 2022

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Settlers is also available as a bundle (€ 25) with INVERSIA001 (Transients I/O by Andreas Kühne)

Settlers, the latest release from sound artist & researcher Sergey Kostyrko, explores the social landscape of Murmansk – the largest settlement above the Arctic circle. Side A, Murmansk Soundscape, provides an uninterrupted window onto the city at work, a field recording cherry picked from extensive research trips around the area. Meanwhile, Sounds of Migration on Side B presents a curiously dynamic noise composition – curious because it’s an automated sonification: one unedited take of a modular synthesiser communicating with a data model.

The data voiced narrates a city and a region in flux, and in decline: the Murmansk population having dropped from almost half a million in 1989 to 300,000 in 2020, with a resulting deterioration of conditions for those left behind. These data flows are turned into sound by a custom interface interacting with the model and a modular synthesiser, all in real time: a deft noise composition and visceral expression of the city’s sparking complexity. Side A, Murmansk Soundscape, completes a complex portrait of the region, by immersing the listener there. The distinctive sonic landscape is marked by the sounds of trains, ships, harbour cranes and howling wind: a soundscape capturing the beating infrastructural heart of a city still buzzing with insistent activity, even as it slowly drains away.

Settlers was developed as part of Murmansk Prospekt, and commissioned by Sonic Acts [NL] and Fridaymilk [RU]. 

Additional information

Weight 285 g
Dimensions 30 × 30 × 0.5 cm