Pixelache travel guide part 3: in the here and now – selected audio works

In the here and now is a collection of selected audio works for Pixelache Festival 2021, curated by festival co-director Laura Gustafsson:

This travel guide differs from the two earlier in that it encourages listeners to sit still and open their senses to the surroundings. Leo Pahta’s Itäinen Mynämäki MW 96 has been recorded on a specific site that gives the work its title (let’s say it together: Itäinen Mynämäki). Julian Scordato’s soundscape composition reminds us about sonic ecology and how soundscapes, too, may become extinct. Center for Genomic Gastronomy combines a relaxing meditation practice to waking up and smelling the air pollution. After the revealing smog smelling session we take an escapist break, a walk through “electronic forest of things”, finally returning to here and now, letting Veera Launonen guide us to her hometown to contemplate the (often small) things that create a livable city. 

-- Laura Gustafsson, Pixelache co-director

List of audio works:
Leo Pahta: Itäinen Mynämäki MW 96           6:50
Julian Scordato: Study for a landscape #2         10:00
Center for Genomic Gastronomy: Guided Smog Smelling — a 3 way meditation series 24:00
Leo Pahta: Sylva Sylvarum         10:07
Veera Launonen: Sinä olet helmi           3:06

Pixelache Festival Radio is broadcast on {openradio} June 6-13 in partnership with Pixelache, Korppiradio, Oodi library, M-Cult. http://burn.pixelache.ac