UNT 8
Rooms in Negative – Lucky Boys
– Info
Cat. No.: UNT 8
Artist: Rooms in Negative
Title: Lucky Boys
Format: Cassette
Edition of 100 solid white cassettes with a unique overpainted cover made by the artist on cotton paper.
– Credits
Recorded & composed between 2018-2019 by Andreas Ragnar Kasapis.
Released December 16, 2019.
– Tracklist
A1. Deret Beyern
A2. What One ?
A3. Drastie Venklause
A4. Refrigerator
A5. Rubber Hands
A6. Soft Legged Wrench
B1. Lucky Boys 1
B2. Boxie Krause
B3. Stubble
B4. Lucky Boys 2
B5. Vitrine
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– About
Rooms in Negative is Andreas Ragnar Kasapis, a prolific Athenian artist actively involved in painting, sound, text and publishing. In 2018 RiN put together a strip down audio set up consisting of a guitar amp, a tablet pc, a microphone and a loop station. Using this minimal set up he slowly crafted audio loops to accompany him through his painting sessions. A single loop could last as long as he was in his studio painting, reflecting on areas of interest through themes of repetition, oscillation, layering, echoing, hiss, surface noise, intermediate spaces, the nuance of memory and the pliancy of perception. These themes slowly but steadily came into balance with the accompanying audio loops, creating an alternate reality in which the image and the sound became indistinguishable and practically fed from each other.
Lucky Boys is a selection of these loops -turned into recordings- that were made between 2018-2019. Through the 11 tracks that consist Lucky Boys, RiN presents an incredible skill in dealing with isometric systems of sound that have a strong sense of spiral repetition, gravitating towards mystical and infinite compositions. Layer after layer, the sound comes through as waves of alternating emotions and forgotten dreams. There is an aura of affirming melancholy on these compositions, a re-visitation of utopian soundscapes, existing as improvised memories and perception shifts of what is real and what not.
– Short Bio
Selected solo & group exhibitions: Songs 2018 (HERO Gallery Amsterdam) Breakwater 2015 (alternative exhibition space), How can one remember thirst 2011(Loraini Alimantiri Gazon Rouge Gallery), Bones are tight 2008 (Loraini Alimantiri Gazon Rouge Gallery), Numb 2006 (Loraini Alimantiri Gazon Rouge Gallery). Notable group shows include: Documenta 14 (Odeion, Athens 2017 / Neu Neu Gallery, Kassel 2017), Reverb: New Art from Greece (SMFA, Boston 2014), Hell as Pavillion (Palais de Tokyo, Paris 2013), Anathena (Deste Foundation Athens 2007. He has also participated in the 2nd Athens Biennale.
mimes(μίμοι) (self-published, 2017), poetry, Andreas Ragnar Kasapis / Konstantinos Hadjinicolaou
RiN previous releases include Rooms in Negative (12”, EP, self-released, 2010), Rooms in Negative 2 (CDr, Album, self-released, 2011), Geeshie (4xFile, EP, Sleep Sound Society, 2016).
– Order
Price: 8 euro + shipping
(Registered mail with ΕΛΤΑ (Greek Post Office). Individual Tracking numbers will be sent off on shipping day. If you live in Greece, please contact us for other payment/delivery options at info@untitled-1.org)
