Lucrecia Dalt

Like the whirr of a wake-up call, Lucrecia Dalt’s metallic
compositions entice us to rethink the possibilities of materiality
and existence. The Colombian musician and sound artist has carved
out a place at the contemporary frontiers of avant-garde and
electronic music, hardware in hand, to channel age-old questions
into a distinct and transgressive musical language. Perhaps the
ability to dig a little deeper is hard-wired into Dalt’s creative
process through her background as a geotechnical engineer. Now
residing in Berlin, Dalt often seeks inspiration in the worlds of
fiction, poetry, geology and desire, excavating nuanced references
to untangle and respond to in her music. At times, this exploratory
impulse surfaces like an introspective call and response experiment
with her source material, forming new perspectives on ideas rooted
in Colombian mythology to German New Wave cinema. Dalt’s conceptual
blueprints are intimate and intricate, emerging like cyanotypes
cast in the sun. Around these frameworks she shapes her sound,
using analogue instrumentation, a vast array of synthesizers and
the processed glow of her voice. Dalt joined the RVNG family in
2018 with the release of Anticlines. Interspersed with enigmatic
metaphors, the record channels at its core the principle of
tectonic plates compressing stratified rock: old material is pushed
to the centre and sometimes becomes exposed. Guided by this concern
with boundaries and edges, Dalt reframes traditional Latin American
rhythms beside visceral tones of electronic composition and
fragmented spoken word, tracing new contours in the topography of
human consciousness. The poetic lyrics of Anticlines were written
collaboratively between Dalt and artist Henry Andersen, and the
accompanying artwork was realised by visual artist and ongoing
collaborator Regina de Miguel. With the release of Dalt’s seventh
album No era sólida (2020), another world is located in her
universe. In an embrace of introspection, Dalt sets out to capture
the moment when one becomes pure sound. This transcendent process
of creation summons Lia: an apparition of the artist as possessed
by mimetic impulses. Language is dissolved into an evocative
collection of glossolalia as the record swells with rhythmic
tremors and the lunar echoes of a lawless organism tethered to
sonic hardware. Navigating through each song as a different state
experienced by Lia, the album closes with spoken word reflections
on the existence of an unworldly lifeform seeded through sound. Her
sound work has been presented internationally in spaces such as
Issue Project Room, Pioneer Works in New York, Haus der Kulturen
der Welt in Berlin, Museum of Modern Artin Medellín, the Mies van
der Rohe pavilion in Barcelona, the New South Walles art gallery in
Sydney, among others. (introduction text by Futura:
https://futura-artists.com/lucrecia-dalt/ ) This episode von
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