The US sound artist and producer presents a psychedelic new video made in collaboration with Rey Sapienz & Chrisman
“When streaming took over, I was a little disappointed,” admits Miami based multidisciplinary sound artist Suzi Analogue, speaking to Neil Kulkarni in The Wire 466. “I came up in the cassette tape era and I have always loved physical music. For Infinite Zonez I wanted a physical iteration of my Zonez 1–4 series of mixtapes, so I sifted through 44 tracks and with the help of Matthew from Disciples we found the ones that would sound great on vinyl.”
Infinite Zonez is a retrospective collection of pre-pandemic tracks by Analogue, who is also the founder of experimental electronic label Never Normal. In her Wire interview the producer outlines her artistic concept of zones – informed by geographical locations and their inhabitants, technology and energy – and how this underpins her practice.
Conceived and filmed by Congolese audiovisual artists Rey Sapienz and Chrisman, the video for Analogue's track “Stay Ready/Ur Dreamz” was largely shot on tour in Kampala, Uganda. “The two envisioned shooting a raw moment of me in some kind of psychedelic Analogue dream in our environment,” she explains over email. “We shot at night, even filmed me riding on boda boda [motorcycle taxi], and invited friends to the collective space to have a party, shadowing how we are used to coming together in the night with our beats. Additional footage was shot in Miami on 35mm by Alexandre Merbouti.”
Read Neil Kulkarni's interview with Suzi Analogue in full in The Wire 466. Subscribers can also read the feature via the online library. Infinite Zonez is released by Disciples.
