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Almost once around the world

Almost once around the world

Project | Video (2024)

An acoustic diary
for the Medienwerkstatt Wien series POSITION-N
Videos: Almost once around the world

All image and sound recordings: Elisabeth Schimana
Exceptions: the historical Russian instruments (ANS Synthesizer, Rhythmikon, Theremin) are from the picture archive of Andrei Smirnov
Sound mixes and edits were created as part of Ö1 Kunstradio broadcasts.
Video editing: Tim Oppermann

From Zealandia, a simulation of the world without mammals and named after the unrecognized geological continent in the Pacific Ocean, which also includes New Zealand, via the Lithuanian borderland to Belarus, into the canyons of Sao Paulo and on to Mexico City and Oaxaca, the Mexican city where music lives on the streets, via Moscow and Odessa to the European continent and back to the southeast to Yogyakarta on the Indian Ocean. The photographic and video snapshots that accompany this acoustic diary are just as trashy as the sound recordings.

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  • Zealandia 2018

  • Borderland with Belarus 2017

  • Sao Paulo 2016

  • Mexico City 2015

  • Oaxaca 2015

  • Moscow 2002

  • Odessa 2013

  • Indian Ocean 2019