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Cheryl E. Leonard // Schism TAPE

Cheryl E. Leonard // Schism TAPE

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A cassette released in May 2021 by Cheryl E. Leonard, an American-California acoustic writer who has been released by Eh? And others, limited to 5 pieces.Includes 150 songs from the noise drone-collage.Includes stones collected by the artist himself, handwritten message cards, stickers, etc.

Labels and other works Click here for more information. ///Click here to see more Mappa releases available at Tobira. 

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"Stumbling into the Age of Loneliness
I carry cloudy glass bottles to the edge of the Pacific.
After 100 years in dirt beneath San Francisco
they breathe fresh ocean air,
fill with the energy of breaking waves.

Microphones inside, ear to conch, I hear shadows:
Scurrying, wing flaps, chirps and chatters, whimpers and bellows.
So many creatures, once emerged from the sea, now gone.
How many vessels would the disappeared fill?
What is the weight of a lost species?

I make an offering of listening
to help me carry all these ghosts we made. "

⟶ Cheryl Leonard


Life through the computer. We all have had to grapple with it over the past year, as we attempt to wring as much meaning, intimacy, experience and variety as we can from our shiny boxes of electronics. Concerts, plays, ballet, meetings, dates, dinners, coffees and conferences all became just a click away.It was by turns revelatory, empty, full, sad and comforting. In Schism's title track Cheryl E. Leonard treats us to her own imaginings of the world within her laptop; a pulsating, flickering, stuttering morass of coil pick up recordings, set She asks: “What does it mean when our mediating technologies have both the power to connect us to and distance us from the ecosystems we are part of? ”Certainly this is a question which predates the pandemic, but it is one which we grapple with now with a set of new knowledges which speak to both the possibilities, and the shortcomings of a life lived digitally.

In addition to her laptop recordings Leonard also turns to mics placed inside bottles to render the second piece on this release, Eremozoic. In the context this simple gesture takes on new resonances; a separation, enclosure, limitation which captures and reverberates particular tones, while missing others entirely. When I think of the computer in this era, I think of it like this, it exists as both echo chamber and conversation; alienation and hope. I think many of us have felt the last year, a little like life was lived inside a bottle. With this release Leonard reminds us of what we lost during the pandemic, but more profoundly what we might lose more permanently as we continue into the context crisis.

⟶ Kate Carr
 

artist: Cheryl E. Leonard
label: Mappa Editions
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A cassette released in May 2021 by Cheryl E. Leonard, an American-California acoustic writer who has been released by Eh? And others, limited to 5 pieces.Includes 150 songs from the noise drone-collage.Includes stones collected by the artist himself, handwritten message cards, stickers, etc.

Labels and other works Click here for more information. ///Click here to see more Mappa releases available at Tobira. 

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"Stumbling into the Age of Loneliness
I carry cloudy glass bottles to the edge of the Pacific.
After 100 years in dirt beneath San Francisco
they breathe fresh ocean air,
fill with the energy of breaking waves.

Microphones inside, ear to conch, I hear shadows:
Scurrying, wing flaps, chirps and chatters, whimpers and bellows.
So many creatures, once emerged from the sea, now gone.
How many vessels would the disappeared fill?
What is the weight of a lost species?

I make an offering of listening
to help me carry all these ghosts we made. "

⟶ Cheryl Leonard


Life through the computer. We all have had to grapple with it over the past year, as we attempt to wring as much meaning, intimacy, experience and variety as we can from our shiny boxes of electronics. Concerts, plays, ballet, meetings, dates, dinners, coffees and conferences all became just a click away.It was by turns revelatory, empty, full, sad and comforting. In Schism's title track Cheryl E. Leonard treats us to her own imaginings of the world within her laptop; a pulsating, flickering, stuttering morass of coil pick up recordings, set She asks: “What does it mean when our mediating technologies have both the power to connect us to and distance us from the ecosystems we are part of? ”Certainly this is a question which predates the pandemic, but it is one which we grapple with now with a set of new knowledges which speak to both the possibilities, and the shortcomings of a life lived digitally.

In addition to her laptop recordings Leonard also turns to mics placed inside bottles to render the second piece on this release, Eremozoic. In the context this simple gesture takes on new resonances; a separation, enclosure, limitation which captures and reverberates particular tones, while missing others entirely. When I think of the computer in this era, I think of it like this, it exists as both echo chamber and conversation; alienation and hope. I think many of us have felt the last year, a little like life was lived inside a bottle. With this release Leonard reminds us of what we lost during the pandemic, but more profoundly what we might lose more permanently as we continue into the context crisis.

⟶ Kate Carr
 

artist: Cheryl E. Leonard label: Mappa Editions