Bias by Giovanni Lami

Through its focus on process and materiality, Bias opens the practice of sound ecology beyond the acoustic to consider the audibility of the chemical composition of soil. From scraps of muddied media buried across three sites in Austria, Greece and Italy, Lami crafts a series of melancholy studies which seem to question the inevitable legacy of human culture and industry in the geological strata.

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Artist Statement
The research I’m carrying on from years is a sort of investigation of sounds in-between sounds you can get if you put your focus on small sound-areas, details you can reach during the play, far away from the simple surface of sound. It's like “explode and explore” an instrument, a substrate, a device, or a mix of them, but first of all it's a matter of practice in itself. The magnetic tape is a substrate for rough, dirty and indefinite sound surfaces that evolve while time is passing, I just need to create the conditions to let it happen and to accelerate this process.
It’s like a garden, where everything grows by itself and you need to make just a few things, to see what is going to happen most of the time.

Edition of 150 CDs numbered copies packaged in oversize 7” sleeves with a 16-page risographed booklet featuring accompanying visual works by Lami and a commissioned text by Francesco Bergamo.

Sound artist and musician who work within soundscape and sound-ecology boundaries since 2009/10.
His research is related with the study of resonant surfaces in the field, degradation processes and the limit and interferences of each device used to record or reproduce a sound.

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