these sounds were originally composed in 5 channels, to be the soundtrack of the iceberg interactive installation that was presented as a solo show at the zipper gallery in são paulo, between june 21 and august 11.

an excerpt of the original soundtrack was published on vinyl in an edition of 10 copies. the vinyl is complemented by an augmented reality app for ios and android, called iceberg. the app is activated by pointing the camera of the mobile phone to the vinyl label.

this version of the album published by contour editions as a moving image, includes excerpts from the original tracks, new compositions, and new combinations of the original tracks.

the moving images are based on a video created for the installation, thought to be projected on the floor. the video includes the augmented reality labels on tracks 03 and 05. its possible to access the experience by downloading the iceberg app available from the apple store and google play store.

the following text was written for the solo show:

iceberg -- poetic license functions like a hiatus in the atrophy of a social, political, military or economic crisis. through the gratuity or the absurdity of the poetic act, art provokes a moment of suspension of meaning, a brief sensation of senselessness that reveals the absurd of the situation and, through this act of transgression, makes you step back or step out and revise your prior assumptions about this reality. and when the poetic operation manages to provoke that sudden loss of self that itself allows a distancing from the immediate situation, then poetics might have the potential to open up a political thought. --francis alys

•an iceberg is a mountain of ice that, after breaking loose from a glacier, wanders around the oceans and seas until it disappears. islands, even continents adrift, the icebergs are fascinating, fragile and powerful; beautiful and daunting. they are ephemeral and elegantly materialize nature in its course.

the image of the iceberg raises countless thoughts in my mind, but what really awakens my curiosity and my imagination is the fact that the largest part of an iceberg remains hidden, dormant, and invisible to our eyes. this aspect led me to elaborate a series of allegories – for example, that the unconscious was the invisible part of an iceberg called consciousness. we know that our senses are able to assess a limited portion of the environment’s information. what we can access is necessarily smaller than what we could actually know. thus, provoking the curiosity to search for the occult side of things and phenomena would be an essential strategy for our survival and expansion.

it is based on suppositions such as these that, in this new series, i wish to reflect on the historical time in which we live in, a time ruled by the critical conflict between men and technology.

the non-linear narrative proposed by this body of works suggests an iceberg that opposes the “natural intelligence” developed by homo sapiens during millennia to the artificial, synthetic, exponential and singular intelligence of current computers.

coda:

human beings are basically water and, like icebergs, we break loose from our matrix to escape the frictions in life until our bodies succumb.

i have never seen an iceberg, though i am one.

fernando velázquez