Leaving

Packaged in a six-panel digisleeve with an eight-page booklet
‘Leaving’ is a generative four-loudspeaker composition created for Skanu Mezs by Marina Rosenfeld and Ben Vida, who perform as a duo and have recorded two albums in recent years, ‘Feel Anything’ and ‘Vertice’. Drawing from both records as well as a remote performance that was filtered through the empty volume of New York’s Fridman Gallery during the hot summer of the city’s Covid-19 quarantine, ‘Leaving’ is the artists’ meditation on the absence and presence, fragmentation and drift of our present reality — “a strange dialogue, dreaming of each other through communication of another order… (François Bonnet on ‘Vertice’)”
Marina Rosenfeld and Ben Vida began their work as a duo in 2013, with a premiering performance at ISSUE Project Room in Brooklyn, NY. They have since presented at GRM/Présences Electronique, Paris, France; MadeiraDig Festival, Fuchel, Madeira; Fridman Gallery, NYC and the Skanu Mezs Festival, Riga, Latvia. As a duo they have released three records together, ‘Feel Anything’ (iDEAL, 2018), ‘Vertice’ (Fridman Gallery Editions, 2020) and ‘Leaving’ (901 Editions, 2021)