Christine Odlund - Phenomena

Digipack w/booklet. Christine Ödlund is a sound- and visual artist based in Stockholm, Sweden and ”Phenomena” is her debut album. Ödlund is educated in Electro-Acoustic Music at EMS, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and Konstfack – all in Stockholm. Her organic electro-acoustic music is drifting slowly over dark depths and is surprisingly detailed, surprisingly lyrical. It seems to communicate with ancient powers, forgotten gods and animals… It’s hard not to drift away and into yourself when listening to ”Phenomena”. It holds echoes of old school industrial music, musique concrète, Swedish EAM but also something very personal and very own. ”Phenomena”is of course presented together with an exclusive digipack with Ödlund’s images as companion to the compositions. Christine Ödlund is a very important addition to the Swedisch contemporary electronic music scene! Discover! A short interview with Christine Ödlund: How was your creative process in making ”Phenomena”? In my artistic work with audio and image, the perceptual exercise is trying to focus on the space between the two art forms in search for additional hidden senses, dimensions or unknown laws of nature. Phenomena has been made in this creative space between sound & image. Is the music compsed for your video works or visual art? In these post-apocalyptic landscapes, the music is materializing into thought-forms, lightnings and other natural and paranormal phenomena. How is the relation between your visual art and your music? There's a close relationship between image and sound in my art. Not in a synesthetic scence but as  a way of exploring nature and the supernatural. What’s your inspiration? Please give us a few names. Eliane Radigue. Marianne Amacher. La Monte Young. Ain Soph - especially their dark ambient compositions. Some of the Black Metal today is also very inspiring. Dario Argentos film Phenomena, where one of the protagonists played by Jennifer Connely can communicate with insects! Jean-Pain Levé for his surreal nature films. The Zone in Stalker by Tarkovski have had a great impact. Healer artist Emma Kunz. www.christineodlund.se

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