Artist: Sara Constant
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Recorded at The Tranzac's Main Hall (Women From Space Festival 2022 – Night 2), April 29, 2022.
For the past three years, the Women From Space Festival has been an excellent encapsulation of its moment. Coming on the cusp of the First Big Lockdown, the 2020 Festival is remembered by many as the last event of the beforetimes, while last year's "hologram edition" was an elegant solution to the flatness of livestreams. And now, this year's Festival had to bear all the relief and angst of "returning to live" at this uncertain mid-point of the pandemic. Presented with joy and community spirit over four nights, the Festival was a chance to run into seldom-seen familiar faces and to hear a dizzying variety of sounds.
One of the festival's highlights, this solo set featured the wonderful impracticality of dragging not one but two organs to a gig to use as drone generators, keys weighed down with stones. Constant embellished that with flute-souds (both wind and electroacoustic) before closing with some delicate speakercone feedback resonances.
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