Is it a game of Chinese whispers? An autopoietic feedback loop? Exercises in commodified memory? Is it the hydrological cycle translated into the circulation of auditory experiences in culture?

In music and sound art, places and spaces are most often perceived through the prism of acoustics or phonographically captured sound objects, which are then compiled into field recording compositions or soundscape compositions. However, we can also find more abstract, post-conceptual approaches here. Soundreaming belongs to this area. The project constitutes sound dreams on the one hand, but on the other hand reamed sounds, a kind of dream woven from sound material that has been radically processed. The sound material here is created through a loop of mutual artistic translations by Jacek Doroszenko and Ewa Doroszenko, an artistic duo. First, field recordings and preliminary sound materials are created, which are then interpreted into visual works, which are later reinterpreted as graphic scores.

As a result, the individual compositions are layered with:

• edited, looped, sometimes processed field recordings,
• instrumental and object-based parts,
• electronic parts, sometimes melodic, at other times operating with grains of noise or glitch.

And yet, from beneath all these layers, the source sound artefacts peek through, leading the ear and mind back to the contexts indicated by the titles. The layers of mediation bring the project closer to the complex ideas of abstract representation of space under Robert Smithson's land art conceptualism, or the neo-avant-garde use of maps or photographs to create graphic scores, than even contemporary field recording practices.

This brings us back to the questions posed at the beginning:
what is Soundreaming?

This is a collage narrative based around the sounds of a non-existent place, suspended between field recordings captured during the Artist-in-Residence stay in Linz, as well as the different ways in which they are individually perceived and mediatized. The individual pieces are sonic aural after-images of places, or perhaps after-hearings, which are, after all, two different things. Perhaps they should be thought of as post-field compositions. In the project, the web of mediation and reinterpretation expands even further by inviting selected artists who have subjected material provided by Jacek Doroszenko to their own processing. The networks of dialogue, references and resonances grow, swell, build up, fold.

Looking into The Dictionary of Imaginary Places by Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi - is Soundreaming inviting us to Lucan's Island of Dreams? Certainly not to Alfred Kubin's Dream Kingdom. But perhaps to Tekla from Calvino's Invisible Cities, a city of constant endless construction, transformation, and reaming?

text: Antoni Michnik

CD1
Soundreaming Volume 2: Overlooked Horizons

Jacek Doroszenko

1. Away From Home Yet Feeling at Home Everywhere, feat. Chris Hernandez
2. The Promise of Sublime Words
3. My Temporary Shelter When It Gets Hot
4. Command Center
5. Elegy of the Synthetic Landscape
6. Power Plants
7. Die Universität der kürzesten Wege
8. Transferring Familiar Views
9. The Problem of Floating with the Horizon
10. Momentary Objects
11. Rondeau

CD2
Soundreaming Compilation

Various artists

1. Anna Zaradny – Full Super Moon 777
2. Yann Novak – Paradoxical Antagonist
3. Autistici – Facticity remix
4. Zenial – Cathedral
5. Ampscent – Through the Medium
6. Giulio Aldinucci – Come Nuvola
7. Jacek Doroszenko feat. Ewa Doroszenko – Home is a Nomad
8. Jacek Doroszenko feat. Grzegorz Doroszenko – Interludium
9. Jacek Doroszenko feat. Chris Hernandez – Away From Home
10. Robert Worby – Over Anticipation of the Future

• compositions, performance and production, Overlooked Horizons: Jacek Doroszenko
• compositions, performance and production, Soundreaming Compilation: invited Artists
• voice, Away From Home Yet Feeling at Home Everywhere: Chris Hernandez
• mastering: Jacek Doroszenko
• voiceover & proofreading: Chris Hernandez
• text in the booklet: Antoni Michnik
• website of the project: soundreaming.org
• graphic works: Ewa Doroszenko
• cover design: Pineum

Soundreaming Volume 2 – press release

Ewa Doroszenko, Układy melodyczne, 2022, 70 x 50 cm, printing on photographic paper

→ soundreaming.org