Freda D’Souza has released and remade via Bandcamp, a looping sonic poem drawn from her audiovisual installation of the same name. Built as her final project for the Audiovisual Cultures MA at Goldsmiths, the installation treats time as fluid and layered rather than fixed — “an act of resistance against enforced clock time,” in her words. We reviewed her debut EP, Windowledge, in 2023; this is a stranger and more expansive piece of work.
and remade began on a houseboat in Mersea on the Summer Solstice. D’Souza spent roughly ten hours there recording sound and writing poetry every hour across sunset and sunrise, waking with the birds as the tide moved in and out around the boat. To fold that day’s rhythm into the recording, she wired a second-hand cassette player to a solar panel through a voltage regulator, so the tape slows as the sun sets and speeds up as it rises. “The sun’s rhythm is sonified,” she writes.
She then fragmented the poem, looped it over birdsong, and layered it with slowed and sped-up versions of itself before adding violin. On a loop — the form it’s built for — it runs slowest when the voices fall into sync and fastest when the music swells and the birds return. The title comes from its closing lines: “As time dresses and undresses me, / I am made and remade continually.”
For this release, D’Souza turned a snippet of the accompanying film (watch below) into a cyanotype stop-motion film, cyanotype being a photographic process developed in sunlight. Every download comes with a single frame, randomly selected, that she calls “an eternal film in itself.” Because cyanotypes fade in the sun and recover in the dark, no two buyers’ frames will change in quite the same way over time.
“and remade” is out now, order via Bandcamp: https://fredadsouza.bandcamp.com/album/and-remade
D’Souza wrote about the project at length on her Substack back in 2024, read it here: