Phoney by Sound compositions on mobile telephone

PHONEY
Sound compositions on mobile telephone

Carrots Tapes #33
34 min.


Phoney presents 15 compositions by poets and artists created from recordings made with mobile devices. Audio recordings from different contexts. Wild sounds, sonic constructions, mundane recordings, conversations and noises.

Mobile devices have become a standard on our daily lives. We wonder what are the limits of these seemingly ubiquitous devices that allow us to be spontaneous and have democratised data recording as well as storage technologies. Does storing anything, in a disinterested way and at almost no cost, puts everything in a cloud of banality?

We have become compatible with devices that were initially developed for communication but have ended up being something else. These indispensable and ubiquitous objects are also tools that provide immediate and practical access to trivial aspects of everyday life. Every touch on the screen becomes new data for platforms that frantically extract resources from an exhausted world.

In a text written several years ago, Hito Steyerl proposed some keys to read ‘the poor image’. Echoing relationships, we propose here the audio of the smartphone as ‘a poor sound’ and repeat her keen observations: ‘these recordings can show the extraordinary, the obvious and the incredible, as long as we are able to decipher them’.

This compilation is intended to be a futile attempt to slow down trivial moments. To re-semanticise those free and anarchic fragments that emerge from the digital utopia to disrupt the equations. To highlight the ephemeral. To restore uses and meanings to these sound fragments through a candid, sensual, joyful language.

Artists: Janosch Perler, Edgardo Rudnitzky, Eduard Escoffet, Rag*Treasure, Felipe Cussen, Martín Bakero Carrá, Steffen Martin, Leopoldo Estol, Felix Koch, Dominic Oppliger, Julián Galay, Mal Lector, Ginés Olivares, Klaus Erika Dietl, Andrea Marioni, Looprimos.

Carrots Tapes is an alternative label and artistic plattform focused on releasing sound artifacts (artists sounds, dilettante works, bizzarre and experimental electronics, soundscapes or non-musik) on cassette.

CT started in 2017, as a vehicle for making personal aesthetic proposals more visible in the everyday landscape.

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