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New release: CAA—59 Tuula Närhinen

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April 24, 2025


The CYLAND Audio Archive presents its next release — CAA—59 Tuula Närhinen is available on bandcamp.


CAA—59 Tuula Närhinen

Drop Tracer (excerpt) 06’31”

This sound excerpt is from the installation Drop Tracer. To make this record, Tuula placed a DIY contact microphone under a 35mm glass slide. The glass slides were sensitized with soot and exposed to rain. Falling on the soot-coated glass surface, the raindrops left visible traces even after the water had evaporated. A contact microphone caught the impact of the collision and transduced its vibrations to the audio input of a mini tape camcorder. 

The work draws from a method devised by the meteorologist Vincent J. Schaefer. When a drop of rain hits the glass, air trapped under the droplet lifts tiny particles of soot that precipitate as clearly discernible explosion patterns on the surface of the slide.

Tuula Närhinen, Drop Tracer, sound and video installation, 70 glass slides, four 105×155 cm pigment prints enlarged from the glass slides, the contact microphone with an unexposed soot-coated glass slide, a candle, a matchbox, HD video [00:49:20, colour, sound, loop], 2011
Tuula Närhinen, Drop Tracer, sound and video installation, 70 glass slides, four 105×155 cm pigment prints enlarged from the glass slides, the contact microphone with an unexposed soot-coated glass slide, a candle, a matchbox, HD video [00:49:20, colour, sound, loop], 2011


Tuula Närhinen is a visual artist and scholar. Re-adapting methods and instruments derived from natural sciences, Närhinen facilitates the generation of inscriptions by harnessing natural phenomena for processes of image making. Along with displaying the conception of the tracings and recordings, her installations showcase the DIY instruments implicated. She lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. /tuulanarhinen.net/

Text by Tuula Närhinen

Curated by Sergei Komarov and Lidiia Griaznova

Mastering, lathe cut by Sergei Dmitriev

The CYLAND Audio Archive (CAA) is a division of CYLAND MediaArtLab, created to investigate archiving and exhibiting methodologies of sound art. This archive is a continuous process of working on a structure of various subgenres of sound art, making compilations, and cataloging the growing archive. To date, there are 59 releases, including works by more than 80 artists. All the records are available for listening on cyland.bandcamp.com.


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