Novas Frequências x Fact: Barulhista x J.P. Cuenca – Descarrego
YouTube footage and electroacoustic timbres combine on this piece from Brazilian festival Novas Frequências’s 2020 edition.
In the second of a series of works from Brazilian festival Novas Frequências’s 2020 programme, Fact presents Descarrego, an original audiovisual work by sound artist Barulhista and writer/filmmaker J.P. Cuenca. In the piece, which takes place on a computer desktop, YouTube footage is assembled and juxtaposed over an atmospheric soundtrack.
The duo says of the work: “The only way to be saved from the abyss is to look at it and probe it and lower it, as an antidote and ascesis. Then go up, down to the other side. Brazilian electroacoustic timbres, underground drones, Alva Noto playing capoeira.”