Based on texts taken from the book “Akashic Diaries – Detroit Degree Zero and Other Crisis Writings” (published by Europia Productions at the end of April 2023, in e-book and paper format) commissioned to Biba Sheikh at the start of the Covid 19 lockdown in April 2020 (in the framework of the “No Lockdown Art” initiative initiated by Transcultures – Belgium and the European Pepinieres of Creation), Paradise Now (here in close collaboration with the sound architect Didié Nietzsche aka A LIMB) asked the author/performer to send him texts read at her home near Detroit, Michigan.
From these raw recordings, these sonopoetic and cinematic pieces have been developed, letting the text’s meaning and musicality unfold. Paradise Now and didié Nietzsche (aka A LIMB) sended sounds to each other by the Internet to gradually build this album of sonopoetic correspondence before being able to work a few days in face-to-face residency at the Transonic Lab/Transcultures (Belgium) in 2022 and early 2023.
“Akashic Diaries”, which is part of a hybrid publication project, is as much an invitation to reading as to engaged listening, and also its autonomy.
This album will soon be played in Second Life by Paradise Now and A LIMB. More information soon!
Listen the album on Bancamp:
https://transonic-records.bandcamp.com/album/akashic-diaries