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Settlers

by Sergey Kostyrko

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Murmansk soundscape 10:31
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Settlers, the latest release from sound artist & researcher Sergey Kostyrko, explores the social landscape of Murmansk – the largest settlement above the Arctic circle. Side A, Murmansk Soundscape, provides an uninterrupted window onto the city at work, a field recording cherry-picked from extensive research trips around the area. Meanwhile, Sounds of Migration on Side B presents a curiously dynamic noise composition – curious because it’s an automated sonification: one unedited take of a modular synthesizer communicating with a data model.

The data voiced narrates a city and a region in flux, and in decline: the Murmansk population having dropped from almost half a million in 1989 to 300,000 in 2020, with a resulting deterioration of conditions for those left behind. These data flows are turned into sound by a custom interface interacting with the model and a modular synthesizer, all in real time: a deft noise composition and visceral expression of the city’s sparking complexity. Side A, Murmansk Soundscape, completes a complex portrait of the region, by immersing the listener there. The distinctive sonic landscape is marked by the sounds of trains, ships, harbor cranes and howling wind: a soundscape capturing the beating infrastructural heart of a city still buzzing with insistent activity, even as it slowly drains away.

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released February 25, 2022

Part of Murmansk Prospekt Commissioned by Sonic Acts & Fridaymilk Supported by Creative Industries Fund NL

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