A beautifully chilling droning leitmotif, occasionally betrayed by a too few many sound effects—clacking train tracks, mobile phones, a cat meowing.
Very creepy rooms, filled with bad memories and stale air. There’s dust on the lampshades, damp under the wallpaper and bugs in the damp under the wallpaper. Italian sound artist Deison has recorded four pieces in empty hotel rooms from Venice to Los Angeles, four set pieces which share common ground with suspense movies in which rooms themselves are co-stars.
Older, run-down hotel rooms, not acoustically-adjusted, modern franchise chains, suggesting poor guests and guests with something to hide or to hide from, some shame, some crime. Art thrives on a certain amount of ambiguity, and that’s what Quiet Rooms contains—a certain amount. Its simple conceit is a beautifully chilling droning leitmotif, occasionally betrayed by a too few many sound effects—clacking train tracks, mobile phones, a cat meowing. However, the dust-mote drone that follows Deison like a blue malaise from room to room and across continents develops with excruciating patience over all four tracks till it gathers into a small vortex, collapsing all four rooms into one.
Quite Rooms is available on Aagoo. [Release page]
