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BARDOfolded (2012​/​2019)

by Judith Egger & Michael Northam

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This collection of sound works have been created for the performance "Bardo" by the visual artist Judith Egger (vimeo.com/62514147).

Circling around states of the in-between and of transition, the term “bardo” refers to the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol: “Liberation Through Hearing During The Intermediate State”), a collection of Tibetan Buddhist termas from the 8th century. The text focuses on the interval between death and rebirth in which different states of consciousness are achieved. These “gaps” or phases of uncertainty can not only be experienced after death but are an essential part of life itself.

Judith Egger establishes three-dimensional miniature settings in her oral cavity – a sensitive place between inside and outside where not only breath and sound leave the body, but communication is generated. The open mouth becomes a stage, a theater revealing various scenes. Transferred onto the big screen by cinematographer Maria Rilz.

Mystic, enigmatic and visually stunning: This is how Judith Egger’s performance “Bardo” can be described.

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released February 6, 2020

The recordings here are documents of two live performances which have been mixed (folded together) by the composer and musician Michael Northam during a short residency at Eva and Guatam's house in Kushal Nagar, Karnataka, India - January 2020.

The original performances took place:

26.10.2012 at MUG in Munich, Germany with Maria Rilz, camera

and

13.9.2019 at Sala Equis, Madrid, Spain
in collaboration with Galería Aural, Alicante, with Jota Morote, camera

both supported by the Kulturreferat München

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michael northam

Active & published internationally, for the past two decades Michael Northam has been cultivating a personal style exploring experience through the sound. His compositions are based on alternative techniques for sound recording & mixing where improvisations on unusual electro-acoustic instruments, including self-designed ones, are interwoven with recordings from various locations around the world. ... more

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