Marta Zapparoli here with Interdimensional Generated Space (DISSIPATIO diss012) …this talented Italian sound artist and radio performer has done a deal of research into the Northern Lights, one of Planet Earth’s more amazing phenomena, which apparently generates natural radio signals on the VLF frequency. Her plan on this record is create a simulated version of same, which she does with a mixture of field recordings from Norway, lights, motors, detectors, antennae, and her own crystal radio set.
A lot of the physical sciences being demonstrated here are beyond my limited intellectual reach, but Zapparoli knows exactly what she’s doing and describes the entire point of the performance in concise matter-of-fact terms. For my part, I like the idea that she might be revealing “invisible forces”, and is attempting to present a “new experience of space, time, and human scale”. I’m reminded to some extent of the work of Disinformation in the 1990s, another sound artist who grasped at any VLF sound he could manage to capture in tangible form, building up his glimpses of an otherwise imperceptible world around us.
Marta Zapparoli is no mere process artist though, and on this release she’s working on building a bridge between the natural world and the technological one, with very credible results. (11/12/2023)