#david velez

[dancingaroundtheworld]

Rob Hamish by David Velez

[minhamemoriasuja]

"bed time" photographed by David Velez

[newlexlothario]

[inspirednarcissus]

Hugo Campos by David Velez.

[reborn2abundance]

[dustedmagazine]

Bruno Duplant & David Vélez—des-illusions (Unfathomless)

des-illusions by Bruno Duplant & David Vélez

Sound artists Bruno Duplant and David Vélez are well matched. Each is an artist whose work processes the world around them and their reactions to it. And they share an awareness of the personal dimensions of collaborative creation. Duplant, a multi-instrumentalist and composer from France, has made scores that doubled as letters to the artist who has expressed interest in performing said score. And Vélez, a Colombian who has recently spent several years studying in England, made his understanding of the tension between Duplant’s hopelessness about humanity’s prospects and the defiant hopefulness expressed by making new work a guiding force in his contributions to des-illusions.

According to the album’s liner notes, which you can read on its Bandcamp page, the impetus for this collaboration was a conversation the two men had about making music in a time of environmental and social crisis. Collected sounds — birdsong, bugs, rain, running water, the conversations of passing people, machinery — figure prominently in the two-part, 43-minute-long piece, which is bisected so evenly (the running times are exactly 22:00 and 21:00) that one suspects that this CD might once have been planned to be an LP. But so do played sounds, particularly pulsing and tolling synthesizer voices. Both have been subjected to interventions, having been looped, chopped and filtered so that their combinations constitute a sound environment quite distinct from the ones that were sampled to make it. The played sounds don’t mix with the environmental ones so much as they bob on top or alongside them, which might represent the relationship between humans and the world they strive to manipulate and manage. But if this is a soundtrack to our currently combusting world, it imposes a very specific combination of moods, simultaneously forlorn and persistent.

The experience of this recording may be modified by skipping the accompanying notes. Separated from their description of intent, this music’s crepuscular vibe might dominate, and hip sleep specialists could plausibly prescribe it as a possible aid for those seeking slumber. This is not, however, a failure on the part of the work to communicate, but evidence that the collaborative impulses that brought it into existence include the listener.

Bill Meyer

[nestito702]

“Boys just want to have fun” photograph by David Velez

[sublimeretreat]

David Velez's Beta Vulgaris was included in the article "Plants on Disk: A User's Guide to Music Made from Flora" written by Carlo Patrano in the June issue of The Wire -> https://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/473

[david6of7]

Rio Samba Rose

Photography by David Velez

[allnewbeansfw]

cade

[minhamemoriasuja]

"boys just want to have fun" photographed by David Velez

[frankkingakingproduction]

Frank King - a King production

Male Models • Men’s Fashion • Male Celebrities • Fitness Models

[glimeres]

Into The Woods (2022, Broadway) - Digital Booklet Pics

[marvelsgirl616]

Same energy

[unladyboss]

NeW YORK FOR TINA MARRERO. CULT OF LOVE PLAY

Tina/Liza was in NY. Wonder if she saw any costars there...

Anyway she went to see a play called 'cult of love'

[david6of7]

Jasmine

Photography by David Velez