aborigen. Savage moving in

Dedicated to the Narkomfin Building, in which the sound of an electric guitar travels through the communal and residential blocks.

You are listening to traces of aborigen’s presence within the walls of the Narkomfin Building. With aluminum guitar and snarling amplifier at the ready he wandered barefoot through the space on the first floor of the communal block and the aerial balcony linking the residential and communal blocks, dropping into a bathroom in one of the cells, from where he could hear the corridor (from where the cell could also be heard). Each space has its own phonation: in some places, sounds drown and vanish and in others they come together in an invisible picture that is hermetic and detailed. The work is recorded and mixed to take into account the acoustics of the building, absorbing the echo of the walls and the reflection of timbres.

aborigen’s audio-walk through the Narkomfin Building is a meeting between a cultural zero and an important cultural unit that reveals disrupted norms of noise and neighborly mimicry. When everyone can hear your every move, you tend to tiptoe.

Recording: Ivan Radzievsky
Mixing: Lev Zhitsky
Photo: Ildar Iksanov
Video: Pavel Kling

Photo: Ildar Iksanov