“Geology of Absence” registers like tremors beneath still water. Irene Gaumé’s video pairs Arvin Dola’s suspended tones with ghostlike geologic forms that shimmer and dissolve, stone becoming trace becoming memory. The imagery glows with soft iridescence, as if sediment holds light the way certain silences hold sound.
Dola’s composition settles in layers, each one finding its weight before lifting into air. Something loosens in the space between notes. There is no resolution here, only the slow weathering that leaves textures behind, the way absence carves itself into presence. Sound and image suggest not emptiness but transformation still occurring, still echoing, deep beneath the surface of what we think we know.
This is music that moves like geological time, patient and inevitable, leaving its mark in places we cannot see until much later, when the light shifts just so.
O Ghost will be released on digital formats via Dragon’s Eye Recordings and on vinyl by Espacio Vacío on September 19.
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Wow, this one’s gorgeous! Love the imagery, too – it could be any scale
Nice one