DISPLACES by Francesco Fabris
DISPLACES represents Fabris' most personal musical journey to date, inspired by the concept of hyperobjects and cartographic practices. The album sculpts a high-dimensional phased time-space composed of concrete materials and digital archetypes in a state of constant displacement. It delves into the symbolic and philosophical realms of mapping as one of the greatest sense-making mechanisms for life, in dialogue with object-oriented environments, superimposition and non-locality applied to cosmic, temporal, and emotional memory.
The sonic ecosystem expands on the image of navigating a path through a set of places, from the microcosm of quanta to the macro force of dark matter, from underwater depths to overland terrains, encapsulating the cyclical flow between birth and death, both in ecological and anthropological sense. The intersection of these shifting states is explored through the extensive processing of the langspil, Iceland's only traditional instrument, intertwined with manipulated field recordings of biophonies and geophonies captured across Icelandic and Venetian territories. These recordings form the backdrop for a meditative process that relocate familiar objects into unfamiliar realms, reflecting on the transformative power of self-reflection while encapsulating the fragmentation and entanglement found in nature and the human state. The record plunges the listener into a disconcerting and physical soundscape, as a “ghostly spectrality that comes in and out of phase with normalized human spacetime,” evoking sensations of suffocation and release as each layer continuously unfolds the palimpsest of the enclosed labyrinth.
Tracklist
| 1. | Extraction of the I | 4:59 |
| 2. | Xanadu Phasing | 4:30 |
| 3. | Barricading the Ice Sheets | 4:42 |
| 4. | Monolith I | 4:19 |
| 5. | A Quake in Being | 5:10 |
| 6. | The Map is the Territory | 5:26 |
| 7. | Wolf-Rayet | 4:30 |
| 8. | Monolith II | 1:32 |
| 9. | Topography of Extinction | 6:10 |
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Credits
Written, produced and recorded by Francesco Fabris at Greenhouse Studios (Reykjavík, IS), BNKR Lab (Bassano del Grappa, IT), CEMI Studios (UNT, Texas, USA) and various outdoor locations between 2016 and 2024.
Mixed by Ben Frost and Francesco Fabris.
Mastered by Valgeir Sigurðsson at Greenhouse Studios, Reykjavík, IS.
Additional production by Valgeir Sigurðsson and Ben Frost.
Additional programming in “A Quake in Being” by Daniele Fabris and Giovanni Corgiat.
Additional programming in “Extraction of the I” by Josh Wilkinson.
Artwork sculpture, photography and design by Mik Boiter and Francesco Fabris.
Additional design by R. Michael Hendrix.
The title “Barricading the Ice Sheets” derives from the research work by Oliver Ressler.
The title “A Quake in Being” derives from the book “Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World” by Timothy Morton.
Thank you: Famiglia Fabris, Karina Safaoui, Maria Cuevas, Colm O’Herlihy, Eeriee, Blair Alexander, Sandro Mussida, George Clift, Joshua Byrne, everyone at State51, Brain Marrow and Bedroom Community.
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Interdisciplinary artist, composer, and musician working with live electronics, audiovisual pieces and multimedia installations.
His practice explores the translation of natural environments into abstract sonic and visual forms, merging digital and machine-driven processes with acoustic ecology, sound physics, field recordings, spatialization and data sonification.