Gilunu – meaning »to be immersed« or »submerged« in Sinhala – plays with our total and constant immersion in sound by exploring resonance and space as instruments through a live performance installation. Radio Lab winner Isuru Kumarasinghe from Sri Lanka proposes to continue his explorations on the resonance of sympathetic strings and space activated by voice and Esraj, using its resonance along with field recordings as the sonic source of an eternal resonating chamber.
The artist writes: »I understand the idea of the resonating chamber to be like a portal: when we step into a space or a place, where the resonance is changed or enhanced, we naturally feel like engaging with that resonance (…) to see how the space transforms the sound and how in return it transforms us. It becomes like a portal into a different world, as part of this world, just for this moment.« The radio piece will be a re-imagination of the experience of what it is like to enter and be transformed inside a resonating chamber.
The Radio Lab is a project by Deutschlandfunk Kultur – Hörspiel / Klangkunst and CTM Festival in collaboration with Goethe-Institut, ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst, Ö1 Kunstradio, and The Wire magazine. Kindly supported by HEDD Audio.
