Leaving by Ben Vida + Marina Rosenfeld
‘Leaving’ is a generative four-loudspeaker composition created for Skaņu Mežs by Marina Rosenfeld and Ben Vida, who perform as a duo and have recorded two albums in recent years, ‘Feel Anything’ and ‘Vertice’. Drawing from both records as well as a remote performance that was filtered through the empty volume of New York’s Fridman Gallery during the hot summer of the city’s Covid-19 quarantine, ‘Leaving’ is the artists’ meditation on the absence and presence, fragmentation and drift of our present reality — “a strange dialogue, dreaming of each other through communication of another order… (François Bonnet on ‘Vertice’)”
Recorded in 2020
All music: Bird Show (ASCAP) and Filiform Music (ASCAP)
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Marina Rosenfeld and Ben Vida began their work as a duo in 2013, with a premiering performance at ISSUE Project Room in Brooklyn, NY. They have since presented at GRM/Présences Electronique, Paris, France; MadeiraDig Festival, Fuchel, Madeira; Fridman Gallery, NYC and the Skaņu Mežs Festival, Riga, Latvia. As a duo they have released three records together, ‘Feel Anything’ (iDEAL, 2018), ‘Vertice’ (Fridman Gallery Editions, 2020) and ‘Leaving’ (901 Editions, 2021).
https://benvida.bandcamp.com/
http://www.marinarosenfeld.com/
901 Editions is a record label and an explorative space blending experimental music and contemporary art through CD releases, books and limited edition objects.
901 Editions is based in Abruzzo, Italy and it is curated by sound/installation artist Fabio Perletta.