Irmert,Jana - The Soft Bit (Ltd.Blue Vinyl) (Sealed) (LP)

JANA IRMERT – THE SOFT BIT "The compositions for this album were shaped over the course of one year, at first without a concept or storyline as a starting point. Yet what I became increasingly interested in was a kind of sensory aspect of sounds. I felt I wanted to get closer so the sounds, feel their structure and surface and how they contrast each other." stick your hands into the sand and feel the grains against your skin. "Throughout the musical process, I used materials like metal, water, sand and air in a very direct and maybe more raw way to create and record sounds than I did in previous works, where I had often manipulated field recordings that had a more ambient character and thus strongly carried the location of origin in them.So in a sense, for the compositions of this album, I used sounds without a place, or just an expression of the sound of the particular material itself." submerge yourself in water and listen to the sounds you hear. "It turned out the processed sounds resulting from hard materials would often have soft and tonal qualities whereas those made from "soft" materials like water or air would ultimately be of percussive or harsh and noisy character. Finishing the compositions was like feeling along the surfaces of the single pieces with closed eyes, making out their shape and outline inch by inch. Maybe this is why to me, some of the compositions feel solidified like pieces of rock, while others seem to be ready to evaporate into air." stand as still as you can and feel the air moving against your face. "THE SOFT BIT" VIDEO: https://youtu.be/rGwQNbi9b5M JANA IRMERT Jana Irmert is a sound artist and composer based in Berlin. Her sonic explorations take on various forms – from live performance and multichannel composition to joint projects with filmmakers, dancers and visual artists. Being interested in phenomena like temporality and impermanence, alienation and the ecological crisis, she creates atmospheric audiovisual and sonic spaces ‘that work with dis/harmony in such a way as to mirror our imperfect world at the moment.’ (TJ Norris, Toneshift). Jana Irmert has released two albums and an EP on Fabrique Records which received critical praise from various music blogs and magazines and have been internationally broadcast on RAI 3, Resonance FM, ORF Radio ?1 and BBC Radio 3 amongst others. For her soundtrack for the feature documentary “Stress” by Florian Baron she received the German Documentary Film Music Award in 2019. In 2021 she has been nominated for an Icelandic Edda Award for her sound design on J?hann J?hannsson's film "Last and First Men". http://www.janairmert.com Packaging Details: - ltd. blue vinyl - sealed TRACKLISTING 12“ VINYL: Side A 1. Lament (6:32) 2. Against Light (6:21) 3. The Soft Bit (6:54) 4. Of Air (4:09) Side B 5. Without Thought (6:30) 6. Underneath (5:34) 7. Granite (1:56) 8. Everything Minus All (8:39)