Sound

Amsterdam 2022

Jaques Derrida wonderfully described in the relative unknown cult film ‘Ghost Dance’ that anything recorded may it be sound, film or even the transmission of a voice in a phone-call, is granting us the opportunity to capture ghosts. Even creating them and or eventually becoming them.

Sounds have always played a big role in Panday’s art practise. Being born and raised in the Netherlands in the eighties, and being of West- African(Guinee- Bissau) and South-American (Surinam) descent, exposed her from an early age to a wide array of sound & music. Some of which culturally imbedded, dictating her relation to it.

During her contribution as the lead-singer of the underground psychedelic art band MARELIBERVM in 2014, she quickly rediscovered her voice and her love for music, becoming a human antenna. Within that rediscovery and research, the curiosity for new and old sounds and all things considered lost & found, prevailed in a natural flow. Becoming the ghost.

[Lost tapes]

Fun-fact; As a small child living together with her mother, Panday recorded several cassette tapes, all filled with content for her own radio-show. It was named ‘The Children’s Radio’, its content formed a program entirely build on a playful set, developed for an audience of her peers at the time. Attempting to coordinate the program, she wrote out the full episodes in a small uncostly notebook. The commercial breaks (including jingles), the songs playing, the interviews and guests, were all performed by her at the age of 6. This content however would always remain private and the cassettes were overwritten.

In the spring of 2023, the artist will release a series based on the ‘Lost Tapes’ incorporating its methodology and its fun-factor to create ‘Kids Kassettes’. Kids Kassettes will appear as a podcast in a limited monthly series on the blog section of this website.

Below you will find some previous sound related works of the artist.