Portals + Ropes

Description

With Portals, Jana Irmert creates a work composed entirely of recordings made in the Amazon rainforest, in Brazil and Colombia. By transposing imperceptible frequencies — ultrasounds, aquatic sounds — she reveals the abundant activity of insects, frogs, bats, and freshwater dolphins. Irmert exhibits and recomposes these sound materials in an approach that is both respectful and personal, offering a fascinating immersion into a non-human, mysterious, and speculative world, at the heart of a threatened ecosystem. With Rope, 7038634357 offers a piece suspended in an uncertain, tense yet fragile time. True to its title, the work is inspired by the figure of the rope, an intertwining of natural and synthetic fibers held together by tension and friction. The slow and measured progression leads from the thresholds of the perceptible towards dense and heavy electronic textures, in constant balance between restraint and threat. A melodic motif eventually emerges, bearing an impossible consolation. In this tension between formal elegance, sonic gravity, and emotional intensity, Rope achieves rare power. Together, these two works reveal sonic explorations that shift our listening and open passages to unsuspected worlds.