“The unknown beyond” is an ongoing project-research started in 2014. The project is focused on several outdoor recordings during travels and artistic residences around the world. It is about exploration, interception, and recordings of the invisible spectrum of our sonic reality: EMF (electro-smog, the invisible electromagnetic radiation resulting from the use of both wireless technology and mains electricity EMF ), radio waves communication, and Natural Radio Phenomena VLF (electromagnetic signal emissions which originate from natural phenomena, weather, lighting, northern light, meteor echoes and more). I’m interested in the inaudible surrounding our daily life coming from the sky and the outer space, the origin and transmission of these electromagnetic radiations, their relation and contamination, the electrosensitivity effects on humans senses, their constant mutation in space-time, and how these signals are changing our political and social reality. This series of “Electromagnetic Portraits”, are the invisible electromagnetic web navigating in cites and wildness around the world which I record with different professional tools like detectors, radio receivers, antennas, (some of them self-build), and landscapes interventions, using trees as natural antennas and so on.
With these portraits, I aim to compose electromagnetic / stories, to tell the uniqueness and variable intensity in each location, space, and time. The first composition of this series was made in 2014 and focused on Cres Island (Croatia). Subsequent recordings and presentations of my compositional work have been made during art residences in Krems (Austria)2016, Druskininkai at DAAR art residences(Lithuania)2017, New York (USA)2016, Hoven House art residences – Vall Pellice, Rora'(Italy)) 2019, Kreta Island 2020 (Greece), Poschiavo at Uncool art residences (Switzerland)2021.
Audio :
Selected (Electromagnetic Portraits) :
Krems: https://soundcloud.com/martazapparoli/krems-radio-wave-portrait2017-extract
New York:https://soundcloud.com/martazapparoli/emf-signals-around
Poschiavo: https://soundcloud.com/martazapparoli/posciavo-a-radio-portrait-uncool-artistic-residency-2021
Kreta Island 2020 (Greece)
