Matilde MeirelesTwo (Another Way)

In advance of Matilde Meireles’s Four Tales, this single contains an alternative edit of tale Two. Two (Another Way) is an improvisation based on a series of loops of made from movements of water; raw electromagnetic pulses recorded with an electromagnetic sensor and a VLF antenna; electromagnetic pulses transformed into drones, rhythmic pulses and imagined animal calls.

While Two created a continuous sonic journey between two locations along the River Lagan, Belfast, Two (Another Way) suggests that listening itself can unfold in multiple ways, uncovering different sonic flows within the urban-aquatic entanglements at the heart of Four Tales.

Two emerged from the listening sessions Matilde created for DRIFT, a collaborative floating architectural installation and public space that fostered new perspectives on city-river connections along Belfast’s River Lagan during summer 2024. Commissioned by Belfast City Council, DRIFT brought together OGU Architects, MMAS Architects and Matilde Meireles.

Matilde Meireles is a sound artist and a field recordist whose work often “spins like the reel of an unseen film” (Chain DLK). Her work is deeply exploratory, blending improvisation and other sonic flows with multiple approaches to field recording. Through these immersive sonic drifts, she attunes to and reveals entanglements across various sonic spectrums, scales and temporalities of the spaces around us.

Her practice takes shape through live performances, album releases, multi-channel installations, community-driven projects, workshops, academic and creative publications. Her work has been broadcasted on BBC Radio 3, Resonance FM, NTS Radio and radio stations across Europe and North America.

Her previous album Loop. And Again. (Crónica, 2024) weaves intimate recordings of Belfast’s telecommunication infrastructure with ambisonic field recordings and hydrophone recordings from the River Lagan — described as “part social experiment, part sonic ecology” (Bandcamp Daily) that reveals “golden sonic magic” within the city's electrical hum (The Wire Magazine), that “should get the rest of the world listening to Belfast, too” (Bandcamp Daily).

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