Apophenia

'Apophenia' suggests possible and reimagined South American geographies. Along

with atomized field recordings and sound samples Ale Hop recollected from video

archives from her homeland, Peru. The composer interweaves unknown territories

by mimicking mountains and oceans, but also grey skies and violent cities, with

droning and shrieking textures of electric guitars mixed with spoken chatters

and sizzles. The LP is accompanied by two black and white images from the

Peruvian photographer Gihan Tubbeh that withhold the same poetic nature of the

music through visual rhymes expressed on fragments of landscapes.

Ale Hop is a Berlin-based artist, researcher, and experimental instrumentist

from Peru. She composes electronic music, by blending strains of noise, pop,

avant-garde, ambient and a complex repertoire of extended techniques for

electric guitar and real time sampling devices that she uses as her sound

vocabulary to craft a performance of astonishing physical intensity, saturated

of layers of distortion and stunning atmospheres. Additionally, in her current

A/V performance, Ale Hop assembles soundscapes that are related to the

contradictory memories she keeps from Peru, from the violence and turbulence

that she grew up, in uncertain times in Lima, through contemplative territories.