On Names by Sofia Carbonara

Limited-run cassette can be purchased directly from Alien Passengers.
Video with Matt Lima Films available on Vimeo.

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ON “ON NAMES:”

I recorded the voices of my parents (Joaquin & Daniela) reading off phonemes (the sounds in words) from Spanish, Italian, and German in search of what my name was made out of. I took this to the vibraphone.

Crawling inside a mouth, inner metal parts sang. On Names is the time I spent there.

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ON THE ALBUM ART:

The mobile pictured was imagined by me and carefully constructed by Zoe Cutler, with me as her assistant. This object was passed on to Ana-Hansa Ogren, who crafted an image from the object (with text added by Mike Collino of Alien Passengers). In Ana’s words:

“I've been thinking…on relationships between our neural pathways (synaptic maps that are constantly morphing based on our experiences and environments), rhizomatic thinking and creativity, deltas and tributaries, and root/branch systems (trees and plants shoot energy pathways in multiple directions) that all came together in this image. To me [this image] simply communicates the deep and all encompassing wildness that language and more rigid forms of communication operate in, [in] the context of infinite complexity [that] is the environment...comparatively rudimentary technologies (like our languages) create unnecessary complexity which often dilute rather than enrich our experience of that environment in order to use them as tools of power…”

Sofia Carbonara is a percussionist
based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. They perform with mixed-chamber ensemble Virago, collaborate with theater, dance, visual art, and poetry, and write and perform their own compositions. You can reach them at sofiacarbonara.com.

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