THE BLACK SIGNAL

Fragments of Sensing Satellite.

Aug 01 2022
Fallon Mayanja
Sound artist and performer. Fallon explores new ways of listening, with the aim of cultivating alternative understandings and perceptions of self, others and environments.

Disrupting conventional approaches within immersive sonic explorations, and manifesting the relationship between fictional existences and cultural experiences, the work taps into voices, rhythms, sonic cosmologies, and vibrations of multiple worlds. Through narratives that have survived Chaos, the artist constructs poetical club landscapes and support systems of black diasporic experience.

Mostly using electronics and technology as tools to share, feel and listen, the artistic production leads to an analysis of the audible and the inaudible, the unspoken and the unspeakable and to the sensible and the sensitive inside and outside sound. Fallon’s work lays on interstices and connections to understand the place of voices, the role of silence, the activation of sounds, both an exploration of senses and narratives.

Member of the Black(s) to the Future collective.

Arts of the Working Class #22

Lorsque j’ai entendu ruisseler sous ma chair ces eaux
qui se font mer - qui se font taire
J’ai tenté d’explorer leurs mondes en plaçant mon vaisseau dans la variable

En quête de mots
gravés dans les fiches d’un passé éludé
j’ai construit les lignages d’un routage ajustable
qui dirige ce flot

Marchant tout droit vers cet océan d’étoile
je me suis vu dans le ciel construire une nouvelle toile
devenir luminescent
en drainant tout ce qu’il me restait de sang
pour sentir ma lumière émaner jusqu’au soir
et mon coeur lui - rester noir
obligé de faire pleurer sa sève
de couler pour atteindre ses rêves

Quand l’eau à tout noyé pour aller nettoyer
la lave s’est installé pour alors réchauffer
Nous laissant dures nous laissant sures

Sur cette terre rouge
marquée par les corps qui ont traîné en son sein
saignant d’abondance et soumis à l'errance
C’est en ces lieux que le soleil brûle d’impuissance

Alors je reste terre et air
je laisse ma chair à mes autres merveilles
en plongeant dans les étoiles je deviens lave et étincelle
à séparer la fleur du sel je deviens brave et essentielle

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This Contribution was released with the support of Rudolf Augstein Stiftung, Bundesverband Soziokultur, Neustarthilfe, Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.

Aug 01 2022
Fallon Mayanja
Sound artist and performer. Fallon explores new ways of listening, with the aim of cultivating alternative understandings and perceptions of self, others and environments.

Disrupting conventional approaches within immersive sonic explorations, and manifesting the relationship between fictional existences and cultural experiences, the work taps into voices, rhythms, sonic cosmologies, and vibrations of multiple worlds. Through narratives that have survived Chaos, the artist constructs poetical club landscapes and support systems of black diasporic experience.

Mostly using electronics and technology as tools to share, feel and listen, the artistic production leads to an analysis of the audible and the inaudible, the unspoken and the unspeakable and to the sensible and the sensitive inside and outside sound. Fallon’s work lays on interstices and connections to understand the place of voices, the role of silence, the activation of sounds, both an exploration of senses and narratives.

Member of the Black(s) to the Future collective.
Arts of the Working Class #22

THE BLACK SIGNAL

Fragments of Sensing Satellite.

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