![]() “And the Amazon was at the centre of that conversation”.Ĭapturing audio for Broken Spectre brought Frost to new technologies outside of the musical world. Following this project, Frost explains, “Mosse took what I think he initially believed was some well-earned time off”, and began a project in the Ecuadoran cloud forest, making “beautiful flower portraits”.Īround this time, Jair Bolsonaro was elected into power in Brazil, a milestone that Frost describes as “fast-tracking a process that had already been underway for many decades in the Amazon”. “It became quickly clear that addressing the climate crisis had to be the next project, it became the only conversation,” Frost says. The pair, alongside the cinematographer Trevor Tweeten, teamed up again for Incoming, a multi-channel sound and video installation which subverted surveillance technology to document the refugee crisis across the Middle East and Europe. This mutual admiration led to Mosse and Frost’s first collaborative project, The Enclave, an audio-visual piece that casts light on the overlooked humanitarian disaster in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 180 Strand, Richard Mosse – Broken Spectre He wrote back to me straight away, and there was an obvious interest in each other’s work.” To Frost, despite their work taking different trajectories over the last decade, there has always been a “direct conversation between the two of them”. “I saw some of Richard’s early work in a gallery in New York, and I took it upon myself to just send him some fan mail, essentially. Kelly Doherty catches up with Ben Frost amidst the project’s ongoing premiere at the 180 Studios.īen Frost and Richard Mosse’s extensive working relationship began because of mutual admiration. Paired with Mosse’s visuals, Broken Spectre is an urgent and overwhelming project that seeks to cast an eye upon climate change. Captured over 3 years across the Brazilian Amazon using a combination of analogue tape and an Ultrasonic recording system, Broken Spectre gives a voice to the wildlife and nature that is suffering because of environmental breakdown. Ben Frost recently released Broken Spectre, his first album in five years, as an accompanying soundtrack to long-term collaborator Richard Mosse’s exhibition of the same name.
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