AUDE Listening Session: Burial, Untrue (2007)

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Age

Ages 18 and over

Duration

70 min

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AUDE Listening Session

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What do we do? AUDE is a cycle of immersive listening sessions where sound is the protagonist and listening is collective. Monday to Wednesday in Barcelona, at Bridge 48 Studios — and also in Madrid, at Hotel UMUSIC Madrid. Each session revolves around a complete album, listened to from start to finish, without interruptions, in an environment designed for auditory concentration: sofas, dim lights and blindfolds available for those who want to expand their sound perception even further. When sight is switched off, the ear becomes cinematic. Attendees are seated on sofas surrounded by speakers distributed to appreciate every detail of the album. When the lights go off, the journey begins — a whole album, from start to finish, as you have never felt it before. The session lasts 70 minutes. No phones. No distractions. Only sound. Mobile phone-free experience. Its use is not allowed at any time. London, November 2007. Nobody knows who Burial is. William Emmanuel Bevan has been producing in absolute anonymity for years — no photos, no interviews, no concerts. When his first album caught the attention of critics, speculation about his identity became part of the conversation. Some even thought it was Thom Yorke using a pseudonym. Untrue is his second album. He produces it in 2007 using Sound Forge — an audio editing software that no producer of his caliber would use, with such a basic interface it seems designed for something else. He does not use synthesizers. He does not use conventional instruments. He works with samples — voices extracted from R&B and house records, subjected to pitch shifting and time stretching until they become unrecognizable as origin but unmistakable as emotion. The result is dubstep, UK garage and ambient mixed in a way that had no precedent in 2007. Bass you feel in your chest. Fragmented voices that sound like calls from another room, from another time. An atmosphere q

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