dusk –––––– dawn by Pablo Diserens

A ready-made composition of moonlight in the company of objects found in the mind’s eye. Detached figures of significant contrast merge with hyperbolic waves of white furrows.

The accidental evocations of the undercurrent as silent evidence, convincing illusions of our interior and their exterior. An apparent shift in the position of stationary instrumentation occurs as semblances of life blare awake. We walk along the rotation of the world, reality is only momentary.

Originally conceived and shown as an acousmatic sound
installation, dusk –––––––––– dawn invites the audience
to listen to a city from dusk to dawn by embodying a
figure who wanders from one acoustic encounter to another.
What happens to the urban soundscape once its human
population is asleep? Putting the emphasis on the little
heard sounds of a city, this field recording composition
allows listeners to dive in buildings’ drafts, bats’ calls,
empty train stations’ ultrasounds, singing escalators,
talking swans, humming electrical junction boxes, and
birds’ dawn choruses. Documentary at times, surreal at
others, the piece proposes an electroacoustic excursion
by mixing and processing a set of sounds recorded at
night in the city of Berlin during the lockdown and
curfew period of spring 2021.

Recorded and composed by Pablo Diserens
in Berlin, Germany — June 2021

Recorded with Sound Devices MixPre-6 II,
Sony PCM-D100, LOM's Usi Pro, and LOM's Geofón

Mastered by Adam Badí Donoval

The piece repeats on both sides of the cassette.

Nocturnal listening on headphones or conventional speakers recommended.