Toothache Temple

Tooth Temple, Sri Lanka reimagined by Benjamin Minimum.

"First, I selected around twenty very short moments from all along the ceremony. Then I chose the very first sound and the last part (the noise of the audience) and created a free two-minute sequence describing the concentration/rehearsal time of the ceremony participants. Then I start to work on the ceremony in its entirety, leaving some initial sounds alone or hiding them but without breaking the true duration. Then I placed other sound, mainly from the initial selection, putting them back often at the initial time where they were picked."

"All the sounds used came from the original ones, sometimes as it were originally played, sometimes cut or pitch or reworked with effects, delay, reverb, eq… although by separating highs and lows, pungi and drums..."

"My approach was to mix the real sounds with interferences felt by a person in the middle of it, who was suffering from a toothache. Details are repeating, sounds disappearing, others hiding them. His mind tries to follow but the pain felt distracts his attention and details or other people presence and acts fires his imagination, but he is although living a mystical experience with all that."