SOUND AND VISION FOR DYSTOPIAN MEDITATION
Abre Ojos is the creative practice of Australian artist Scott Baker, who tinkers at the intersection of sound and vision through technology. Based on Djiringanj Country in a small seaside village in Australia, Baker’s performances and installations merge modular synthesis and generative visuals into evolving soundscapes and filmic journeys.
Since the early 2000s, Abre Ojos has released a body of work that includes the acclaimed Gates CD/DVD and numerous live recordings that use modular synthesisers to fuse drone, ambient, and ritual sound with hypnotic visuals.
With the demise of the DVD, releases are now through Youtube which has over 100 (and counting) audiovisual journeys. These are not 3-minute pop songs as food for the algorithm, these are tracks to ask you to slow down and step out of the Shorts attention span and step into long form hypnotic psychedelic doom rituals.
