VOX AERIS (voice of bronze)
— a sound performance exploring the transition between the exterior and interior space of the church.
We have compiled two sound maps: a map of bell ringing and a map of the church’s inner atmosphere—singing, candles, footsteps, echo, and silence.
The bell in the work sounds like an external voice directed at the city, while interior sounds become an inner layer of the space and its memory.
The performance is structured as a gradual immersion: from an open ringing to a muted sound within, from a ritualistic action to a personal experience blended with natural sounds.
The album consists of 5 tracks:
(1) Before the Prayer (2) Bronze Litany (3) Stone Echoes (4) Between the Pillars (5) Rain Psalm
First state of the album: quiet anticipation, natural ambiance, a space before the main sound emerges.
The album is structured as a sonic investigation of sacred space through varying degrees of presence.
We are interested not just in the sound itself, but in how it shifts depending on distance, medium, and neighboring sounds—water, wind, birds, voices, footsteps, echo. Therefore, the album’s dramaturgy is built upon the gradual transformation of perception. The same motif—the church as a sound source—is unveiled differently each time.
Each track becomes a separate attempt to hear the space anew.
We approached the church as a living acoustic body. It was important for us to hear everything surrounding it: the air before the impact, the echo after it, the footsteps within, drops of water, human voices, the pauses between sounds. Thus, the church becomes a space that can be navigated by sound.
Each track on the album captures a different level of approach to this space. In some places, the sound nearly dissolves into nature; in others, the bell comes to the forefront, and in still others, only echoes and human remnants remain.
The listener finds themselves within an acoustic environment, where the space gradually unfolds through small, almost accidental sounds.