'Anemoi is a composition created entirely from material gathered using a 4' square loop antenna during an electrical outage caused by a narrowly-missed hurricane in rural Florida. As part of an artist residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Summer 2008, I created a square loop antenna capable of detecting any changes in the electromagnetic field within 10 miles: lightning, other atmospheric conditions, and of course any source of electricity nearby. Shortly after constructing this antenna, the electricity for the entire complex went out due to a tropical storm passing overhead. Anemoi is an attempt to recreate my experience of gathering recordings during this storm: rain, lighting, moments of total stillness, whipping winds, tree branches scraping against each other, struggling with the antenna to avoid tuning in radio stations, and finally, the restoration of electricity to the surrounding environment.'
-Notes by the artist.
Composed and realized by Mark Cetilia, 2009. Source material recorded at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, August 2008.
Produced and mastered at Ha'rakevet Studios, Tel-Aviv, January 2009.
Maybe the name Mark Cetilia doesn't ring an immediate bell, but he is a member of Mem1, part of Redux, curator of Ctrl+Alt+Repeat festival and travels the world to do residencies. 'Anemoi' can be seen as a sort of conceptual work. Cetilia created a square loop antenna 'capable of detecting any changes in the electro magnetic field with 10 miles: lightning, atmospheric conditions'. Shortly after he created this antenna, power was cut because of a tropical storm flying over. In his piece he tries to recreate that experience, picking up all those signals, and avoiding any radio sounds. The first ten minutes sound like long wave crackles and then dies out. In the second half a more drone like sound builds slowly up and then dies out again. Quite a nice atmospheric (pun intended) release. If you wouldn't know any better, you could all too easily think this is some laptop musician doodling around with plug in stuff, but after you read the story on the cover you know better. Great piece of a nice concept turned into a nice piece of music. That's something more people should do.
Artist: Mark Cetilia
Title: Anemoi
Format: Digital + 3inch CD
Catalog: nspace04
Release: 2009
