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Title:  Ondamendia Artist:  Oier Etxeberria Label:  Arto Artian Format:  3" CD+postcards Price:  € 5.80   Mp3 samples: none

Title Description:
A collection of 9 postcards and a miniCD with a soundwork of 17?32? called C14. This folder reproduces using parody the edition that the doctor and engraver H.Wilkinson did just before the first Carlist war. The preservation of certain formal elements (which actually contains new elements) take this project to be read topoanimically the visited places. The music composition that comes with the images Ða collage from Basque folk songs- is a engraving or recording almost physical, which made some people to define it as unbearable.

Ondamendia (catastrophe in Basque) is a recent work by the multidisciplinary artist Oier Etxeberria questioning the general health of Basque culture. Ondamendia is a collection of parodies of Basque iconic images in the format of postcards accompanied by a 20 minute-long 3? CD of concr�te music called C14. The name is taken from Carbono 14, a radioactive isotope of carbon which is used to measure the age of an object in archaeological research. The title is an ironic reference to the ancestry of Basque Culture (Euskara the Basque language is the oldest living language in Europe). C14 combines fragments of typical Basque folk sounds made by Txistularis (flute players), Bertsolaris (poetry improvisers) and some classic songwriters from the Basque Country such as Mikel Laboa and Benito Lertxundi. These fragments are
sometimes processed and mixed with other sounds more related to contemporary life such as advertisements and cash machines. Running alongside this is an underlying narrative of an autopsy performed on a body. It seems dead, you hear the doctors comment, but sometimes it seems to re-animate.Ê (É) (The Wire)

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