Blanck Mass
In Ferneaux

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The possibility of growth, always defined by our connections with others, held in limbo. Sartre said that “Hell is other people,” but perhaps this is the Inferno of the present: the space of sitting with the self.Neuester Soloausflug des Briten Benjamin John Power als Blanck Mass. Auf „In Ferneaux“, dem Nachfolger des 2019 erschienenen Albums „Animation Violence Mild“, erforscht der Soundtüftler aus Worcester Schmerz in Bewegung und baut audio-räumliche Kammern der Erfahrung und Erinnerung. Das Album ist in zwei lange journeys unterteilt, die die Erinnerungen an das Zusammensein durch die Komposition eines nostalgischen Reiseberichts bündelt. Dafür greift Power in seinem Soundarchiv auf zahlreiche Field Recording zurück, die der Brite in der letzten Dekade während seiner Reisen um den Globus gesammelt hat. Diese intensiven Reisen werden von unterschiedlichen Stimmen, Orten und Empfindungen heimgesucht, die aus dem Trauma eines persönlichen Trauerprozesses entstehen und mit dem Aufbau sowie der Entladung großer klanglicher Spannung einhergehe.

In Ferneaux explores pain in motion, building audio-spatial chambers of experience and memory. Using an archive of field recordings from a decade of global travels, isolation gave Blanck Mass an opportunity to make connections in a moment when being together is impossible. The record is divided into two long-form journeys that gather the memories of being with now-distant others through the composition of a nostalgic travelogue. The journeys are haunted with the vestiges of voices, places, and sensations. These scenes alternate with the building up and releasing of great aural tension, intensities that emerge from the trauma of a personal grieving process which has perhaps embraced its rage moment.

An encounter with a prophetic figure on the streets of San Francisco presented the question of “how to handle the misery on the way to the blessing.” This is the quandary of the impasse we now all find ourselves in, trapped in our little caves, grappling with the unease of the self at rest – without movement, without the consumerist agenda of “new experiences.”


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