MUSIC VIDEO to VOID ID
in collaboration with Camila Magrane / www.camilamagrane.com
made possible by the Matchbox Commission [CounterPulse / Kinetech Arts / Zero 1], 2019
SPOKEN WORD
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Welcome to my band qualia-c!
Outlandish? - Every song is different, has odd instrument combinations and plays with underlying psycho-sonic vibrations. Various music genres are used as expressive medium in experimental narratives: Electronic, cinematic landscapes are interspersed by archaic and anarchic rhythms, alternative riffs, folklore and world music snippets, spoken word, classical variations, wanna be Jazz, Goth, Industrial and Noise. Breath, melodies and voice are experimental articulations of emotions and thoughts that have nowhere else to go.
‘qualia’ is a term used in philosophy meaning “the internal and subjective component of sense perceptions, arising from stimulation of the senses by phenomena.” That is also the definition of what you will witness when you listen to qualia-c …
My first album “amare qualis - birds of paradise on a capitalist planet” is pure inner sensing in the aftermath of a love story gone awry. The music was produced pre-COVID and is dealing with matters of the heart on an interpersonal, spiritual and sociopolitical level. It tries to understand the roots of ghosting - the abandonment of relationships, the connections we feel and make, which just do not pan out. Today’s heartbreak is an old story with a new narrative: the one of ghosts. What if we take ‘ghosting’ literally and ask if it is ghosts who are stricken by unresolved inherited stress and trauma - if it is the lingering presence of the past that make lasting, healthy connections hard to find. This album is a journey inwards, a journey on a personal path to meet one’s shadow side and let it speak, scream, mourn and find hope.
Paul Roessler from Kitten Robot Studios in Los Angeles who played a prominent role in the LA punk scene in the 1980s (The Screamers, Nervous Gender etc.) calls it “Tanja Music”. After getting to know the compositions while mixing and partially recording them at his studio, he wrote: