I created this work while contemplating my perception and attitude towards the city of Sofia, where I had been living for more than a year and a half by that time. I walked the streets, recording various sounds: trams, the subway, passing cars, as well as the atmosphere of parks, busy and quiet streets. In the end, I assembled a mosaic from this. The video sequence turned out to be quite simple, but it conveys the feeling of hidden energy and electricity present in the city. ...
In the winter of 2023, I visited the ski resort of Bansko in Bulgaria. Although there was little snow and we didn’t go skiing, this short trip gave me a rich collection of sound material. With a recorder in hand, I explored the city streets, capturing all the interesting sounds: from the ringing of bells to the creaking of wooden stairs under the feet of my friends descending from the mountain. Upon returning home, I created a musical composition from these field recordings. For the visual accompaniment, I experimented with neural networks for the first time, using Stable Diffusion Deforum - one of the first models for generating video. ...