ALVA 3 is a book and a music release produced in collaboration with sound artist Xenia Lopez.  The music consists of songs and vocal compositions accompanied by piano. 6 different voices guide the listener through fragmented narratives, which explore the paranormal as a place of kindness that one might devote oneself to, when there is no space given within the normal.

The publication is based on musical compositions which were initially presented in the video installation ALVA II (2019) first exhibited at Kunsthal Aarhus and again during CLICK Festival and Video Art Festival Turku in Finland. The publication contains lyrics as well illustrations which were developed in continuation of the universe explored within the video work ALVA II.

ALVA is a continuous project. With emphasis on the voice understood as a prosthesis separated from the body, the ALVA project works with the paranormal, in addition to working with the idea of the voice as a ghost, and reproductions as phantoms. In ALVA, we follow Mlle: a voice that travels in a ghost box (a device for communication with other dimensions and a medium through which voices without bodies can speak). Mlle encounters a 4 headed hydra-monster playing the piano, a cabbage head, hydroponic eco-systems, water and vocal tracts.

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CREDITS

Drawings: Sophia Ioannou Gjerding.
Music: Xenia Lopez.
Text: Xenia Lopez and Sophia Ioannou Gjerding.
Vocals: Camille Doussy, Holger Hartvig Nielsen, Cæcilie Trier, Ribka Maria Pattinama Coleman, Francesca Burattelli, Robin La Ree Berry and Aoife Slevin.
Piano: Malthe Rostrup.
Mixing: Xenia Lopez.
Mastering: Hari Shankar Kishore.
Printing and binding: Obra Press.
Typeface design: Kasper Pyndt (Approximate Type).