Name: Absent Origin
Brand: Mira Calix

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CD-WRP-341

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Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2021-11-12

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

801061034122

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Mira Calix

Genre US

Electronic

Label US

Warp Records

Mira Calix (born October 28, 1969, Durban, South Africa – died March 25, 2022, Bedford, England) was an electronic musician and sound artist. Born and raised in South Africa, she moved to London in 1991. She promoted the Telepathic Fish parties and was a publicist at Warp Records from 1994 to 1997.

Calix had several releases on Warp Records and collaborated with various artists. She also created music for installations, sound sculptures, and worked with opera and theatre companies such as Opera North and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Throughout her career, *Mira Calix* made significant contributions to the electronic music scene. Her unique style drew inspiration from genres like IDM (Intelligent Dance Music) while pushing boundaries with experimental sounds. With a diverse body of work spanning across different mediums, *Calix* left an indelible mark on the art world.

absent origin is the latest album by multi-disciplinary artist Mira Calix via Warp Records.

'Like Duchamp, I had started out wanting to, 'make an album, or box, of approximately all the things I produced'. In the end, I realized - as much as a collage is the coupling of two or more realities, it also offers the means to examine the materials and culture of an era, questioning and expanding its borders.' Mira Calix

Every song on the album was created by applying a different collage process relating to a different visual artist, spanning the history of collage to contemporaries of the practice. The sonic materials are subjected to a myriad of processes; layered, synthesised, constructed and assembled into electronic melodies, textures and complex, frisky dance rhythms that are constantly shifting in surprising ways. absent origin employs collage to make sense of the current moment of displaced voices, disjunction and political unrest.

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