Cadeu - EX (2022)

EX became cadeu's playground to explore the idea of using language as an artistic tool in the realm of club music. Throughout the record, language is interchangeably revealed in both deconstructed and habitual ways, letting the meaning in and leaving it out, attempting to spell a message and suddenly losing it only to become another instrument in a track

Language as an artistic tool has been widely explored in conceptual and particularly in sound art for more than a century: from the phonetic poems of Dada, to Stockhausen’s experiments with text and voice, to contemporary electro-acoustic works in this day and age.

Relations between languages and their sonic characteristics was the main focus of cadeu's Master’s degree and the result of a three-year-research and experimentation. Why do languages sounds just like they do? What does constitute a linguistic soundscape? In 2021’s ambient mix UI cadeu examined several languages in a deconstructed mode. The words were torn apart into particles that are deliberately devoid of any meaning, but still retaining the character of a language. Conceptually the approach was based on the idea of l’objet sonore introduced by P. Schaeffer, by means of which he regarded sounds as independent acoustic events, detached from their sources, deprived of the original meaning and intended for listening, charged with acousmatic experience.