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Scenes of Contemporary Living 2023

by Nothing Sounds

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I. Under the Covers (A Call for Help) 07:12
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II. With Each Breath, Mould Fills My Lungs 20:00
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III. Frosted Glass Cage 22:10
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IV. Preparation (Blood Tied) 14:56
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V. Everything Melts 23:54
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VI. The House of Null (What Does a Body Mean?) [Part 01] 17:29
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VI. The House of Null (What Does a Body Mean?) [Part 02] 17:51
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VI. The House of Null (What Does a Body Mean?) [Part 03] 21:44
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VI. The House of Null (What Does a Body Mean?) [Part 04] 11:06
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∞. This House 03:05
lyrics
There is blood on my hands I don't know where it came from I am in my bed My head pounds My eyes are foggy Shapes bulge from my walls Crystallising to scabs of an unknown origin I peel myself from the bed Placing my bloodied fingers on the walls I trace the perimeter of the scabs Almost sensually, almost sexually I move to its center Even with my gentle touch I feel the grit of the growing mass scrape against my nails And it does grow More and more my walls grow unfamiliar A sense of unease sinks in I must know what lies beyond the mass My index and middle fingers force themselves against the wall Pressure mounts My joints crack My nails split But with enough pressure They penetrate the barrier My fingers twist familiarly The hole spreads Eventually, my whole hand fits inside So I remove it Black It covers my hand Any movement causes a cloud of soot to trail from it But I must not stop I must know what lies inside these walls What poisons this place of comfort I struggle to my knees I push my face against the hole I do not like what I see I am afraid My fingers instinctively latch to my biceps Scratching, scaping at my flesh I must know what is inside I must know if it is true But I see it It is the same I am poisoned I am rotten A shell holding nothing but decay This house is the same We are symbiotic It is a part of me And I have become a part of it Rotted and poisonous is all we are Taking all who enter us with warmth Only to drain them of life There is no saving me There is no escaping this now We must be destroyed For my own good For the good of everybody that I love

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Shown at the exhibition Exposure 2023 at Massey University.

A retrospective of sorts, Scenes of Contemporary Living 2023 sees Zero looking back to one of her earliest series, the original SoCL (as heard on Collected Sound Works, 2021), and attempts to give it and its ideas a resolution.

This series, as always with the Nothing Sounds project, explores the affective qualities of trauma. Specifically for this project, she is looking at the ways in which trauma, and other mental health issues, change the way people exist in the world, how they function, how they see and hear the world. It is constructed from samples of field recordings of everyday life, layering, cutting, and manipulating them meticulously as a means of producing harsh, dissonant, and unstable sounds, obfuscating their original sources to varying degrees.

The project, like all of her work, has a semi-autobiographical component that revealed itself through the production of of the work, building an internal narrative around trauma-based guilt, ideation, and self-hatred; paralleling her own feelings and experiences of this with the flat she lives in and its less-than-healthy living conditions. This inspired, alongside her research into acousmatics, the cyclical nature of the work, ending at the beginning and starting again - the endless cycle of trauma never relenting.

For the most ideal listening experience, it is recommended that this is experienced at a loud volume with headphones, a decent stereo system, or a PA system in a small, dark room.

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released November 6, 2023

All works constructed, performed, and produced by Zero, 2023 EV.
All words by Zero.

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Zero Wellington, New Zealand

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Based in Pōneke, Aotearoa, Zero is a multidisciplinary artist and musician working under a number of aliases, most predominantly Nothing Sounds. Her work explores the intersection of gender and trauma, trying to convey the nuances of trauma and the various contexts of particular experiences through sound. ... more

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