Waste is proud to premiere the full version of "The Ungrounding," a psychedelic collaboration between Queens-based electro-spiritualist Alexandra Drewchin, AKA Eartheater (Hausu Records) and Los Angeles-based multimedia alien Amia Yokoyama. Drewchin’s intergalactic soundscape meets Yokoyama’s Precambrian visual constructions in a Petri dish microcosm of driftwood ghosts and murmuring gemstones.
It is a place of liquid intuition and geological spirits, where a cellulose sun shines on biomorphic spiders and into deep craters of gelatinous bliss. On this “Fantastic Planet” located somewhere between ephemeral dream and tactile nightmare, saltless oceans and viridescent skies give shelter to sea urchins made of static, and sentient clay villi swirl and bulge with knowing grace. Meditate in the soft nucleus of this mystical stem cell as language disintegrates into primordial echoes and the duo slurp you into their realm of childlike reverie.
Shot using a combination of stop-motion animation, hi-8 tape, and HD video, Yokoyama crafted “The Ungrounding” at Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency in the Mojave Desert “whilst dreaming of infinity pools and surrogate configurations of life.” She approached Drewchin to score the film, and their collaboration yielded two versions, “one where the video follows the music and another where the music follows the video,” the first of which premiered on The Fader.
Through an opalescent window into the stalagmite-filled caverns of her mind, Yokoyama explains that “the figurative images in the video are not any specific lifeforms from this world. They are neo-age shape-shifters, faceless desiring-machines that feed on bones and capacitors, sucking up artifacts from another time in order to initiate the process of The Ungrounding.” See more of Amia Yokoyama and Alexandra Drewchin’s work here:
http://iamamia.com/
https://soundcloud.com/alex-drewchin
