27th August 2023
Matilde Meireles will launch her new album, Vanishing Points, at Lisboa Soa Festival in Lisbon, Portugal. The album will be released by Crónica Electrónica on the 22nd of August.
Vanishing Points is a documental drift that explores how everyday urban flows intersect with our own personal rhythms as we move through urban environments. For this album, Matilde Meireles interchanged between her smartphone and a small hi-spec field recorder connected to an electromagnetic sensor and stereo microphones to record her movements through different spaces. These included the quiet space of her home; the old railway line where she often runs; the busy trains as she commutes; the crowded London tube lines; and the flows of people and traffic in the dense urban environments of Brixton and Bristol. As she traverses these spaces, it becomes clear how everyday scenarios brim with life, energy and activity. These flows are a consequence of our participation in contemporary societies. Such an intense sonic abundance highlights the unsustainable future of urban environments. But what we can learn from these movements and how can we contribute to alternative futures?
For her album launch at Lisboa Soa, Matilde will introduce Vanishing Points by reinterpreting the composition with new recordings of her movements in Lisbon, the city where she comes from. In this cumulative process these moments intertwine to create a ghostly map of Matilde’s everyday movements.