SEMI SILENT

Melting Candles

Intimist take on the sonic space of Antim's monastery yard in Bucharest.

Amid Bucharest's appartment buildings, in the beginning of October, the Antim monastery.

Among birds nesting in the bellfry - the sounds of cars and ordinary conversations.

Candles that are melting, snuffed by a fast naughty boy.

Old wood, budged by an elderly carpenter.

“How dreadful to be a mother... or father."

Sașa-Liviu Stoianovici includes in his artistic practice diverse mediums - modified electronic devices, wood, cheese, polenta, traditional musical instruments, sound and video. His installations search for the interference points between archaic peasant objects and new technologies.

At the end of August, when the market is abuzz with preserves fever, and mounds of eggplants, tomatoes, bell peppers overflow generously on the stands, it can be useful to meet someone who knows the ways of the place since many decennies. Mr. T was born, has lived and raised his two children merely 15-20 minutes away from the market.

Mihaela Dedeoglu is a cultural journalist and produces a radio show on Radio France Internationale Romania. Since 2007 she hosts a daily cultural news talk show whose identity is intimately linked to contemporary creativity, the creative space in Eastern and Central Europe and links to the rest of the world.

The busiest railway station in the country, the North Station of Bucharest is a space of constant agitation, eclectic and emotional. Traveler concentration is highest in the space between the information desk and the railway platforms. At any moment in this center of lines of flux are heard the voices of people, sounds associated with their luggage, and the trains with the conductors’ whistles. In this sound documentation I remake the acoustic trajectory of the anonymous traveler through this vast communicating space.