Kosaya Gora. Paperwall story

This audio work compiled from personal archives reflects the historical and cultural multi-facetedness of the Narkomfin Building.

Kedr Livansky and Flati, the members of the musical project Kosaya Gora, have created a collage from films found in family archives, their own field research, and new music recorded after visiting the Narkomfin Building. The melancholic soundscape brings together voices from the past with an uneasy sound fabric of the present, coinciding with a sense of dissonance and non-linearity of time in a building that preserves the traces of its complex history. There, where the historical and cultural layers coexist simultaneously (like old wiring alongside contemporary decoration), the past comes back to life. It also comes to life on the level of combining audio recording techniques. Here you can find recording on old reels and using a smart phone dictaphone.

paperwall story is a dream, a reverse dark fantasy of the avant-garde artist and poet Velimir Khlebnikov about the «radio of the future,» which spreads «flocks of news from the life of the spirit,» human speech, and the unearthly singing of «lightning birds,» but which has an enchanting force.

Photo: Courtesy of the indie project Kosaya Gora