After periods when many things break down, new things need to be made from fragments. 'absent origin' uses the process of collage to make sense of such fragments. Burrowed deep in rolling hills of books and magazines of her source material, Mira Calix's studio took shape of a Scandi-Noir detectives office but in place of suspect is Calix herself cut and pasted into the artworks that circle this album. Immersing herself into the history of collage, she researched the various processes applied by artists, as well as the medium's history in relation to the 20th century and political upheaval. Every song on the album was created by applying a different collage process relating to a different visual artist, spanning the history of collage to contemporaries of the practice. The sonic materials are subjected to a myriad of processes; layered, synthesised, constructed and assembled into electronic melodies, textures and complex, frisky dance rhythms that are constantly shifting in surprising ways. 'absent origin' employs collage to make sense of the current moment of displaced voices, disjunction and political unrest.

Disc 1

Track name

Artist

1.A Mark of Resistance

Mira Calix

2.There Is Always a Girl With a Secret

Mira Calix

3.Silence Is Silver

Mira Calix

4.Bower of Bliss

Mira Calix

5.Wooddrifts

Mira Calix

6.Nkosezane - For My Daddy

Mira Calix

7.Like Jenga (Only It Reaches All the Way to the Sky and It's Made of Knives)

Mira Calix

8.Doggerland (Between the Acts)

Mira Calix

9.Fundamental Things

Mira Calix

10.Fractions Fractured Factions

Mira Calix

11.I'm in Love With the End

Mira Calix

12.Surrender

Mira Calix

13.GARGLE (Command V)

Mira Calix

14.Dishang Shuang (Edit)

Mira Calix

15.Transport Me

Mira Calix

16.An Infinite Thrum (Archipelago)

Mira Calix

17.The Abandoned Colony Collapsed My World

Mira Calix

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