MUSIC | 2023 | Album | Hunnia Records
Created for self-revelation and self-liberation, the album builds from my field recordings and lifetime archive of sounds – from pre-birth family tapes to the characteristic noises of three homes – over 60 hours in total. Without instruments or conventional rules, I wove compositions from everyday sounds in a documentary spirit, turning them into an inner journey through my past and present.
Veronika Szász – music, lyrics, music producer, field recordings, vocals, electronics, Máté Karakai – mixing, mastering, Hunnia Records – label
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I wanted a sonic fabric that extends the experimental, personal approach of Unfold (2018) and Unform (2020) while processing the essence of The Way’s (2022) English-language lyrics. The source material consisted entirely of my own recordings – some made by my parents even before I was born, later including my voice at age three on a Sanyo cassette dictaphone I began using myself at six. In 2021 I digitized and sifted more than 50 cassettes (about 60 hours) and also recorded the emblematic acoustics of my three homes (Napsugár sétány, B104, L33).
I avoided instruments and standard composing rules, using each sample in its original form even at the cost of tonality. Melodies were sung freely; the documentary ethos – truthfully preserving the sounds of my life – mattered most. Rhythms reflect my natural pulse, as if the music maps my inner flow. Along the way, I discovered how doors, windows, keyboards, fridges, brushes, and canvases had long been part of my sonic identity. The album is thus both experiment and self-knowledge: a weaving of everyday noise into personal narrative.
