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O​Ï​DA

by Matters

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  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    As a bonus item for each copy purchased, you'll be receiving an extended bookled with the texts in Ukrainian / English / Lithuanian for each of the walks.
    Purchasable with gift card

      €10 EUR  or more

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Oïda is a limited edition compact disc of 4 tracks, each of them are an English version of the urban walks / stories told by four Ukrainian artists that found themselves engulfed within the war. Each of the narrative is personal and reflects a fraction of their daily reality. Walks represent a space in time, however, any of them can be experienced by walking in any environment, as a way of bridging the spacetimes via empathetic entanglement.

    All of the money for the sales of this album (excluding the taxes to BC and Paypal that are automatically subtracted), both digital and physical copies, will go to support humanitarian organizations, such as Hospitallers battalion of medics, in Ukraine.

    Package: digiwallet, B/W print on recycled Umka Color 350 g/m2 cardboard reverse
    CD: red silkscreen ornament on transparent (silver) base
    Photo: authored by Dima Levytskyi, signed risography print on (Munken Pure Rough 300 g/m2), by @Hands On Press
    Poster: authored by Irina Rybakova, signed risography print on (Munken Pure 90 g/m2), by @Hands On Press

    Includes unlimited streaming of OÏDA via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    edition of 300 

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about

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.

credits

released December 21, 2022

Authors:

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Text, voice recording & editing, photo: Dima Levytskyi
Translation (EN to UA): Dmytro Kozak

2. & 3.
Text, voice, translation (UA to EN): Mariia Borysova
Music: Pavane for the Dead Princess by Maurice Ravel (1899)
Remixes & performed by: Ivan Skoryna

4. & 5.
Text, voice, translation (UA to EN): Svitlana Dovhan
Music: Oleksii Podat & Anna Dovhan

6.
Text & director: Ihor Babaiev
Voice: Lucy Zoria
Music: Daina Dieva
Voice recording: Yevhenii Chaban
Sound recordings in Bakhmut: Ihor Babaiev
Translation (UA to EN): Dmytro Kozak
Translation (EN to LT): Andrei Vazyanau
Photo by: Iryna Rybakova


Final mix & mastering: Ignas Andriuškevičius
Design & layout: Inga Navickaitė-Drąsutė, @ Hands On Press
Concept, curatorial work & production: Daina Pupkevičiūtė

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Matters Kaunas, Lithuania

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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