3 DEC 2020 · An atmosphere is a space that is at once processual and indeterminate. Meteorologically speaking, it is a turbulent zone of gaseous matter surrounding the earth through which human and non-human lives move. In an affective sense, it is something formless yet palpable, an environmental immersion which moves through, between, nearby and within bodies while remaining suspended in air, ethereal. This project seeks to bring together the meteorological and the affective through a series of free improvisations beginning from Joy Division’s song “Atmosphere”, in response to the micro-political climate that surrounds us. As Gilles Deleuze writes, affective atmospheres are singularities which enter into virtual conjunctions and at the same time constitute a complex entity - like points of melting, boiling, condensation, coagulation. “Atmospheres” is also an attempt to create a common territory where we can expand upon and reconfigure a set of motifs and refrains both musical and extra-musical by stretching them, slowing them down, molecularizing their sonic textures and inhabiting them in the manner of a desert, a mist, a glacier, moving between wave and particle. This first improvisation was performed and recorded in Palermo by Graeme Thomson & Silvia Maglioni on electric guitar, synthesizer and laptop before being subjected to further processing.

27 NOV 2020 · An afternoon in a community garden in the South of Rotterdam. A corner of a garden left untended. An experiment in transference using found materials in our surroundings. Rotten leaves, shredded pine needles, a pile of logs and small branches, fallen nettle. Decaying matter builds support structures for emergent lifeforms. From the ruins emerges new life.  An untended corner of the garden in South Rotterdam has been left untended by its stewards, to observe what happens over time. Using materials from our immediate surroundings we perform a small intervention. After we are finished we record an improvised retelling of our experiences before parting ways.  Carmen José Quintanilla and Michelle Teran

26 NOV 2020 · At the threshold between 2019 and 2020 a group of land protectors, educators and artists came to gather. They stayed in a house with a beautiful little garden in the town of Lecce, in via Masaglia. This sound postcard is from that garden, taken one year after that gathering: a garden where salvia and rosmarino are whispering; where gardening tools are being touched; and where a khaki tree, a melograno, and a pine tree murmur while watered.

23 NOV 2020 · Here I would like to share what my closest allies have revealed to me: despair and hope. A fallen almond tree, still living, told me its nightmare about a burning forest. Next time perhaps an olive seed will tell me the story of its metamorphosis into a tree. Emilio Fantin