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what remains
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What remains,
when nothing is left.
The poem that we chose for this piece is really important to me. It represents a shift in my writing, away from a detailed maximalism to a visceral, minimalist simplicity. There’s a component of something Zen (as in calligraphy) about it. Each poem is like a snapshot, a photo taken from the hip. A tiny found object. A spontaneous koan. Decontextualised, fragmented and incomplete by design. Open, spacious and accommodating.
Ramón and I have been talking about collaborating on something for ages! We share a lot of the same obsessions: from green tea, through all types of experimental noise, drone metal, a minimalist approach to collaging etc. When he told me about this piece, the only obstacle for us was finding a day we were both free.
Transposing this poem into Ramón’s compositional framework was easy. It was very intuitive. It felt like I was using the same approach that I had used to write it. The process was very meditative. Drone music has this mind-altering quality about it. Your sense of hearing gets amplified because of the repetition, and you tend to lose track to time. We had to record this straight through a total of three times, as the piece is based on 3 simultaneously playing takes. We also had to synch with each other and hit the same points in time (vocal delivery and freeze). It really was an exercise in presence.
Lukasz Polowczyk
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when nothing is left Zürich, Switzerland
Ramón Oliveras feat. Lukasz Polowczyk
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