the swimming pool - an original sountrack
an original soundtrack for director carmen dusmet carrasco
[Made exclusively from manipulating my voice]
The Swimming Pool was developed over the course of a two-year domestic ethnographic research involving many travels to Southern Spain. In an attempt to find what it means to practice care, Carmen Dusmet Carrasco developed an obsession with capturing her mother’s precarious journey towards retirement. What began as a socio-economic study of female poverty in Spain led to an intimate negotiation of a mother-daughter relationship.
Projecting the imagination of a younger generation onto a future that is unfolding, the film is an intergenerational prism. In its rawness, it unapologetically poses a confessional question: How can younger generations take care of the elderly while safeguarding their own future?
SIDE A - The swimming Pool soundtrack
1. Texture I
2. Liminal I
3. Fire Melody I
4. (Self) Portrait*
5. Self Presentation I
6. Self Presentation II
7. New Year
8. The Swimming Pool
*(Self) Portrait - was previously released on Pan y Rosas in 2018
SIDE B - Parallel soundtrack & unfinished propositions
9. Texture II
10. Liminal II
11. Fire Melody II
12. Improvisation for the Veil Portal
13. Submerged Landscape
14. Deoxygenate
15. Surface
© all rights reserved, released June 6, 2022
Soundtrack Composer - Lola de la Mata // Mastering Engineer - Andrew Larrabee
Text Response to Soundtrack - Geoff Cox // Artwork - still from film, Carmen Dusmet Carrasco
text response from Geoff cox
GEOFF COX has collaborated with film directors Lucile Hadžihalilović, Claire Denis, John Hillcoat, Jukka-Pekka Valkeapaa, Alicia Duffy, Robert Morgan and Peter Strickland, the artist Brian Catling, and musical groups Nurse With Wound and Cyclobe. Books include Haunted Air (photographs from the collection of Ossian Brown, introduction by David Lynch), Tony Clark’s Myriorama, Third Life (photography by Norbert Schoerner), Anna & the Witch's Bottle and Anna & the Juniper Dog, Ian Johnstone - The 23 Stab Wounds of Julius Caesar, and the forthcoming Formless Irregular (published by Strange Attractor Press).