OÏDA by Matters

All walks produced during May - September 2022 in Ukraine, during the full-scale Russian invasion into the country.

OÏDA, from Catalan, means hearing. The four pieces of this album are soundwalks, prepared by Ukrainian artists that now are also activists and humanitarian volunteers. This album is an invitation to walk together, stepping lightly, accompanied by Dima, Mariia, Svitlana, Ihor, Ivan, Oleksii and others. Listen to these walks with an open heart to take in those shared intimate lives exposed to and transformed by the war.

Each of these walks narrates the timespace in the ongoing war: the transformations of urban space, human relationship to it, relationship to themselves and with other humans, the uneasiness of uncertainty as well as lessons in loving. The walks take different shapes: that of a moment frozen in a photo, that of a dance, a walk over a city, or of a series of voice messages filled with longing and loss amid the rubble and bomb craters.

It is a documentary storytelling project meant to find a way to bridge experiences between distanced bodies, social realities and landscapes. In a desensitizing world of spectacular violence we propose to cut the circuitry of impersonal voyeurism and take time to listen to a human voice.

Thank you for taking time to walk with us.

Matters is a platform for industrial culture. Our line or work over 2018-2022 was helping nurture adventurous sound(art) community members via exchange, mutual learning, concert organizing and such. These are audible traces that remain. Tangible traces are to be found at kmn.lt mediatheque.
Project is part of Kaunas ECoC 2022.

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