Spillover by Pierce Warnecke + Matthew Biederman

Spillover is an audiovisual performance, and this is a physical archive of the project.

Near rural Montalegre, an entire mountain may be destroyed
to facilitate a proposed lithium mine. Situated only a few
kilometers from the Rabagao drinking water reservoir, are
the villages of Carvalhais and Rebordelo with the mountain
between them. While on one hand, initiatives are painted
green, but with extraction of any kind, there are irreversible
impacts on the landscape, culture and people to be
considered.

Borders are edges, divisions that separate two distinct
zones: be they political, geographical, historical, social,
cultural, geological, tectonic…They can be natural or
manufactured, progressive or abrupt, actual or perceived,
physically visible or drawn on a map, imaginary or real.
Through the use of aerial and land based photogrammetry
as a means to visualize and sonify both real and perceived
environmental limits provides a metaphor for a systemic
shift and a point of reflection of our relationship with
environmental extraction. Speaking to the potential
ecologically disastrous imposition of the mining and
processing of lithium, Spillover investigates the divisions
that separate us from our natural surroundings and the
interplay between nature, culture, politics and economics.

Commissioned by Index 2022, Braga PT by Luis Fernandes

NB: These are just the audio compositions, the full limited edition release is available on Metalabel Through Permeated Transmissions :

https://permeatedtransmissions.metalabel.com/spillover

The 25 physical editions contained a USB project archive in stone containing the full AV composition, the separate audio tracks, images and scores used to record and perform Spillover, as well as 6 printed cards, in a small cardboard box.

The recording and production was made possible by a grant for La Maison de la Musique Contemporaine (MMC) in Paris.

Sound and video, electronic or not, sometimes composed, sometimes improvised, sometimes loud, sometimes less.

Music on raster and room40 and more, booking at DISK agency.

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