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Portals / Rope

by Jana Irmert / 7038634357

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Jana Irmert - Portals 16:05
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7038634357 - Rope 20:47

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Jana IRMERT « Portals »
Produced entirely from sounds recorded in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil and Colombia, Portals evokes the hidden world of sounds that lie beyond our perception. Whether concealed in ultra-sonic frequency registers or in the depths of the aquatic medium, these sounds bear witness to an unsuspected and teeming animal activity. Insects, frogs, bats and freshwater dolphins move about, hiding from our eyes and ears. Revealing this palette of sounds, in particular through transposition, and placing it back in the realm of the audible, Jana Irmert invites and guides us on a fascinating exploration of an unsuspected, speculative and non-human world of sound, which she exposes and recomposes in a way that is both respectful and personal, accompanying this teeming and fascinating sound material in a musical gesture of great clarity. Portals is an attempt to access the evocative power of an Amazonian forest on the brink of catastrophe, through a decentring of the listening experience delicately composed by Jana Irmert.

7038634357 « Rope »
With uncommon mastery and precision, Rope unfolds in a suspended time that seems nonetheless ominous. As its title suggests, Rope explores the formal figure of the rope, as an interweaving of synthetic and natural fibres that hold and amalgamate, held together by the forces of tension and friction. The rope itself, as Neo Gibson explains, is knotted at regular intervals along its entire length, so that you can hang on to it. Rope unfolds slowly, evolving from the threshold of the perceptible towards denser, more ballasted electronic textures, but always on the brink of an upheaval to come. Then a melodic motif appears, seeming to carry within it an impossible consolation. In this respect, Rope balances strikingly between formal elegance, sonic gravity and an emotional charge that is almost uncontainable.

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released October 3, 2025

Jana IRMERT « Portals » (2024)

Written and produced by Jana Irmert as a multichannel work for 36 speakers
Commissioned by INA grm
Composed from ultrasound and hydrophone recordings made in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil in 2022 and Colombia in 2023

Mixed by Jana Irmert / Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi / Cut by Andreas Kauffelt at Schnittstelle, Berlin, 2024
Photo by Kasia Zacharko / Sleeve design by Stephen O’Malley

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7038634357 « Rope » (2024)

Produced 2024 by Neo Gibson for INA grm

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi / Cut by Andreas Kauffelt at Schnittstelle, Berlin, November 2024
Photo by Carter Seddon / Sleeve design by Stephen O’Malley

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