2023

Remnant

music record
installation
performance-concert

‘Remnant’ is a piece which centers itself on a music record (an EP) and expands to a live format of performance/concert/installation.

This project started with the production of the music record, which expresses the crystallization of various natural elements through the use of several technological forms, human and non-human, reflecting processes associated with memory and transmutation.
It started with several field-recordings and footage made during the year of 2023 that were later recollected, computed and arranged, resulting in a sonic journey where memory, sensation, information and desire coalesce.
Computation of memory, absorption of information, fabrication of actions and liberation of energy. These processes reflect both on the systemic nature of all living beings and the interchange of information between them and the habitat.
This ends up echoing the result of the album, where spirit and the flesh, organic and inorganic systems, the empirical and the ethereal, are all faces of the same one universe.
This is the first EP by Filipe Baptista released under a label and was launched in digital format and in a limited edition green vinyl disc (12” 45rpm).

all tracks written and produced | Filipe Baptista
mastering | André Teixeira
cover artwork | João Pedro Fonseca
released by Zabra

The visuals for the project followed the same techincal and conceptual operations as the sound, evoking crystalized memories and digital artifacts of the places the artist visited while making the record. The videos that acompany the music were made through the recollection and transfiguration of 3D scans and video footage made by the artist himself, which live in a coded network.

directed, filmed, edited, 3D and coded by | Filipe baptista

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Upon the record release, the artist premiered an installation-concert-AV piece that expands the universe of this project, playing the record in a format that invites the audience to experience the piece in a more immersive and intimate way.
In this space lies a suspended rock with projected visuals, expressed through some of the keywords and concepts that are also in the basis of the sound universe of the piece: Apprehension, Reframing, Anamorphosis, Camouflage and Administration. It is following this matrix of gestures that the natural materials, here crystallized by digital technology, express the similar emotional journey that the artist imprinted in this work, allowing us, besides listening, to see the elements and recordings that made up the journey of creation of this project.
The installation format of this project was presented in several venues and festivals, such as Sónar Lisboa +D, Mono Lisboa / Lisbon Art Weekd and Lux Frágil.

concept, performance, music, programming, scenography and visuals | Filipe Baptista

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