akathisia by Mjellmë

Akathisia_Mjellmë

Carrots Tapes # 22

8 tracks of subtle sound modulations

mjellmë’s systemic music can be perceived as poetry, as sonic sound works and performative writing. their art is a combination of all these strata and data.

mjellmë (she/they) aka swantje lichtenstein

is a sound and performance artist, musician and poet. lives in berlin and düsseldorf. they merge language and music in a transtextual, improvised as well as choreographed and composed mode.

mjellmë’s work is based on deconstructed, modulated as well as generated natural and artificial voices, used to transfer meaning, knowledge, poetry and wisdom in a transformative way of understanding without concentrating on the analytical or intellectual meaning of words. transmedial writing with or as sound is an important conceptual idea of all tracks.

production with ableton live/max live, loop stations, several synthesizers and voice modulation systems and software.

stone sad (2018, produced and mastered in rundsamstudio, düsseldorf based on texts, thoughts and the voice of gertrude stein and mjellmë. stein is an idol of an early feminist, queer experimental writing, which was aware of the visual, rhythmical, semantical and syntactical side of language as well as full of aesthetic awareness and over boarding wisdom. working with rmjellmë and artificial voices)

2nd copy (2016, producedand mastered in rundsam studio, düsseldorf. the track is dealing with different generated, recorded and modulation voices used as sound base of this track. sampling, copying and quoting of ideas, sounds and words were put on a meta level as well as transformed into a new way of essayistic writing as sound writing)

akathisia (2017, produced and mastered in rundsam studio, düsseldorf. describes a movement disorder characterized by a subjective feeling of inner restlessness and the inability to sit still. the piece converts the transformation of the limitation of moving words and fast rhythms as a different perspective of disorders and disease as a productive form of body language)

fifu (2020, produced and mastered in düsseldorf. fifu means beat in yoruba as well as all sorts of abbreviation especially in the digital world. It stands for a term of understanding and misunderstanding at the same time. the love for opaqueness and complexity can be perceived in this track about translating voice and words into sounds as a surrounding and calming treatment for the soul. she track is also mystical and magical in it’s form and effects. the electronic effects and filters used on the recorded voices act like voices of ghosts and spiritual entities)

sexnbeauty (2016, producedand mastered in düsseldorf. the track remixes generated and natural voices of readings from the writercrauss (schönheit/beauty) and swantje lichtenstein (geschlecht/sex/gender for a live performance in ausland berlin)

poetecna (2021, produced and mastered in berlin. deconstructed and synthetic voice recordings as a form of musical poetry)

ex écrire (2016, produced and mastered in düsseldorf. synthesized and generated voices of writers f.e. ungaretti, trotzki, stein, deleuze, bataille,woolf, mayröcker, lichtenstein and others to create traces of writing, which can be listend to)

my gertrudi (2017 - 2018, produced and mastered in rundsam studio, düsseldorf based on texts and synthesized and modulated voices ofgertrude stein, mjellmë and artificial voices)

Carrots Tapes is an alternative label and artistic plattform focused on releasing sound artifacts (artists sounds, dilettante works, bizzarre and experimental electronics, soundscapes or non-musik) on cassette.

CT started in 2017, as a vehicle for making personal aesthetic proposals more visible in the everyday landscape.

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