Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Jean-Louis Huhta: EXOTICA 2014

TALK TO ME IN MY DREAMS
Thursday Feb / 6th /  7.30pm
































A mixed-media collaboration between Nanna Dalunde, Jean-Louis Huhta and Rodell Warner
FOUND  OBJECTS, FLAGS, FIELD RECORDINGS, FILM, PROJECTIONS AND MODULAR SYNTHESIZER.

















Partners Nanna and Jean-Louis have been on a tour performing in NYC as Dungeon Acid at the music festival, Swedish Energies, after that they participated in the Ghetto Biennial in Port au Prince Haiti, with Per Hüttner and our X-Klubb collective. On December 17th, they came to Trinidad and were hosted at Alice Yard and began interacting with various artists and musicians.

















Jean-louis has family in T&T  and went to school in Arouca in his childhood.
"A lot has changed since then" he observed. "Together we explore memories impressions, how the sea was and is now,  recording sound, filming and building the world of Exotica 2014...It's a play on a  music style from the 50's... A time travel, a scene from the future where a plastic bottle on a beach 
is a mysterious piece of nature or technology, the sounds of the birds become integrated
with the machines mimicking nature...A meditation on the time it takes for the sea to shape corrals... 
Shapes from the deep sea speak to us in our dreams telling their stories..'Sunken City' a tune recorded in the 60's by composer Les Baxter . The 5 minute piece  has been stretched to three hours in duration The character of the music changes drastically into a spooky angelic kind of soothing drone..."