Là - album release
Presented in collaboration with Futura Resistanza, S.M.A.K., Messidor
Courtisane is een platform voor film en audiovisuele kunsten. In de vorm van een jaarlijks festival, filmvertoningen, gesprekken en publicaties onderzoeken we de relaties tussen beeld en wereld, esthetiek en politiek, experiment en engagement.
Courtisane is a platform for film and audiovisual arts. Through a yearly festival, film screenings, talks and publications, we research the relations between image and world, aesthetics and politics, experiment and engagement.
Presented in collaboration with Futura Resistanza, S.M.A.K., Messidor
Là is an immersive, politically charged sound journey — a lament for the Al Naqab desert in Palestine. A result of a collaboration between Sirah Foighel Brutmann, Eitan Efrat, Laszlo Umbreit and Ot Lemmens.
The album combines acoustic instruments like flute and cymbals with processed electronics and mechanical sounds. The track Ensemble is made of sound recordings from eleven 16mm film projectors, playing simultaneously, and in intervals, creating a texture centered around a single pitch — La/A. The tracks For Her, There and No, are recordings of live sessions played by Laszlo Umbreit and Eitan Efrat.
The album features an extended text by Rose Higham-Stainton titled Strategies for Survival, spread across a 12-page booklet. Futura Resistanza gave Là a home. This live concert, played by Laszlo Umbreit and Eitan Efrat, is an elaboration on sound formations from the album, played by acoustic and electronic instruments.