Apsides is the debut full length album from acclaimed multimedia artist Victoria Keddie (Barbican Centre [London], The Kitchen [NYC], Museum of Art and Design [NYC]). Each of Apside’s seven electronic soundscapes derive from the orbiting of space debris as it is tracked in real-time using Keddie’s custom built software. Data of proximity, distance and attitude variance are rendered into sound through analog synthesizers, signal generators, sampler, voice and more. The rawness of electricity is sculpted into thematic patterns, melodic shapes and textured environments while straddling a compositional line between chance and control. Musical reference points include Laurie Spiegel, Maryanne Amacher and Delia Derbyshire. Thematically, Apsides depicts a sonic portrait of the interaction between humankind and its culturally entrenched position among technological systems and media ecologies, a relationship merging the animate with the inanimate in a congealed ‘machinic’ exchange between signal and receiver.

released October 2, 2020
Victoria Keddie: analog synthesizer, voice, custom digital software
Mastered by: Jessica Thompson Audio, LLC.
This project was initiated with the support of the Kone Foundation, Finland.