Tribes, ceremonies, communication with spirit worlds; some might call it cultural isolation. While there is cultural isolation, there is also globalisation. Globalisation is the exact opposite of cultural isolation, indeed it is a world trend that rapidly changes cultures and makes them assimilate in most parts of the world. Therefore, the world becomes a global neighbourhood with the advent of the internet, the widespread use of mobile devices and the increased use of social media and networking. The effect of such powerful technology has so far had some positive and negative aspects, which is affecting all of us beyond our different ethnical cultures. It can create separating borders as well as connecting bridges between human beings.

We might think to be all connected, when excessively we dive into some kind of isolation from our own cultural groups. We are influenced from a Western world encouraging us to follow some models, which are not suitable for all of us, often disconnecting us from our original identity. When looking at some other cultures from the Eastern world, their strong and deep philosophies and beliefs are slowly disappearing these days, yet they influence us on some spiritual level. Since the world has always been a varied, complex and dynamic place to exist, it’s important to remember the complexity of the multiplicity of such a topic. Neither culture is better nor worse than the other. As Wade Davis said “The world in which you were born is just yet one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being like you. They are unique manifestation of the human spirit.”

Brave New Worlds is a sound immersion where sonic worlds encounter each other. An invitation to remember our identities. Eastern instruments as Gong, Tanpura, meeting technology as bass frequencies, field recordings and drones. Experimenting with the possibilities and borders of their own codes and uses, expanding their own boundaries all mixed between a conventional and ritualistic set-up.

Fidel Eljuri is an audiovisual artist living and working in Quito, Ecuador. He creates immersive experiences that explore the relationship between the cosmology of man and the natural environment over time. He is the 1st audio visual artist to be signed to the genre-bending ZZK Records label.

Sabrina Gricourt (1988 - Bordeaux, France) studied at the conservatory of electro-acoustic music and contemporary dance in France. She is a self taught sound artist who has trained in sound therapy, energy healing and shamanic practice. She is the founder of Sonic Body a holistic sound healing project. She holds groups ceremonies in Berlin and Leipzig. Sabrina uses media in order to create a field of contact where people are able to get in touch to a larger world of perception. Identity, senses, timelessness, contemporary global political issues and her exposure to a diversity in ethnic cultures are the core of her researches and creations. In various experimental ways, she explores the possibilities offered by manipulating real sounds and revealing some of their microscopic innards. The sonic landscapes created through her own recorded sounds, drones, bass frequencies, gong and tibetan bowls invite us to a full sensory experimentation. Her work is developed with an ongoing concern for our relationship with the space and vastness of the world and with nature itself. Manipulating the patterns of time with the view to lose control and leave room to fully allow space to envelop our senses for a full reconnection to the present and our origins.