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PROTO​-​CIUDAD

by Jake Morton & Visuals Void

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1.
Floating Figures On The Shoreline 03:47
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2.
International Alert 02:52
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3.
Constant Expansion 03:11
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4.
Puerta Ala Cruz 02:37
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5.
Bronok Grips Mountain (Visuals Void Mix) 04:36
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6.
Street Level 02:52
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7.
Human Bin Valley 03:14
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8.
Bughliar Beach 03:48
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Floating figures on the shoreline above the Exhaust-Lands, the city Puerto-La-Cruz looms overhead. After the fallout of the Orbital Wars in 5058 radiation has polluted the earth’s atmosphere and Kessler Syndrome has ruined the shared dream of constant expansion. Without progress to eat the overpopulation and hyper-inflation, the very tensions our cosmic expeditions sought to resolve, have seen the elite colonize the skies while the afterthoughts of this conflict are left in sky-scraper shadows. Out of sight and out of mind, the street level denizens are exposed to atmospheric radiation poisoning, generational genetic mutation and left hopeless in the scrapyard known as Human Bin Valley. “Off Station” poverty is omnipresent and human trafficking is common as body modification artists fight for survival in a cannibalistic attention economy. Anyone born able bodied performs within a competitive ceremony to fight for the prospect of being taken “On Station.” Most “abled” fall into spirals of narcissism, mania, power failure, and depression. Furthermore, those who reach the top of the scrapyard become glorified garbage men, recruited for orbital debris collection from the fallout.

Proto-Ciudad is a collaboration between visual and aural artists to create an experimental electronic soundscape and collection of sci-fi found-footage accompanying the narrative above. Adán Guevara strikes the digital canvas with a heavy inspiration from surrealist architecture collectives, such as ARCHIGRAM, to create harrowing depictions of the late stage capital colossus. Adopting Deantoni Parks’ “Technoself Method”, Jake Morton combines field recordings from both Venezuelan and Australian metropolis and coastal environments with hyper-compressed sounds of the drum kit, all in real-time. Guevara’s surreal architecture wraps fear and desperation into the illusion of skyrise living. Morton’s soundscapes hold the listener under waves of hopelessness, as they imagine a fictional habitat where progress is poison and safety is lottery.

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released September 6, 2022

Graphics - Visuals Void
Music - Jake Morton

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