Anthology for Listening Vol. II – Un Air

Un Air

Markus Lipsoe

Un-Air is an ongoing research project, which investigates the atmospherics of memory through sound, text and moving images. So far, the concept has developed into sketches of videos, which works with the idea that sound essentially juxtaposes multiple memories from places experienced. The project deals with the conceptual idea of writing from listening, applying found text and minimal imagery supplying nuance affective possibilities and sometimes critical social context. A contemplative text-piece on listening, associative triggers, memory – relates to the personal or private, or more specifically, the first-person experience basis of a phenomenology of sound and listening. It consists of meditations on the occurrences of life movingly interwoven with memories, associations, desires and reflections. It has so far resulted in a video-essay that examines the way in which the memory, imagination and subjectivity of a wandering listener elaborate the character of sound. You can say that sound functions as a ghost in this piece.