Swamp Consciousness

An ambient soundscape exploring swamps. An observation on an enchanted landscape and a reflection on the unknowability of the world

Following the example of artist Petr Shvetsov, who created a series of works based on the painterly study of swamps, Masha listens into the gooey mud and gives voice to the dark and unstable landscape, with its non-human inhabitants. Visual and sonic figures explore the possible semantic dimensions of metaphysical bogs: natural ecological ones as well as fairy-tale mystical and disturbing, existential bogs. Behind the patterns and lenses, and behind the colorful volumes and textures, one can distinguish the trickle of groundwater, the chatter of insects, and the subdued hum of the real, manifested in the materiality of sound.

Cover image: Peter Shvetsov, From the series Swamps, 2009

About the Artist

Masha Volum is a multi-genre DJ interested in electronic music in all its manifestations. She is a resident of the ABCD and Pole musical communities.