Din Daa Daa / Ocean Refuses No River / Iyagi

Din Daa Daa is the alias of Berlin-based artist, Denise Ross. I’m not sure how long Ross has been making music, but her DJ career began in the early 1990s. Heavily involved in the world of art and design, Ross recently began working on sound installations. Her latest project “Ocean Refuses No River” takes its title from a poem by the Persian, Sufi poet Rumi, and in concept is a comment on our climate of constant conflict over borders, land, and the refugee crisis. The piece is split into audio – “Hadal” – and visual – “Photic”. The latter is a loop of figures dancing. Filmed in slow motion, up close but made distant, indistinct, filtered through glowing, diaphanous clouds of colour. The music is a 20-minute long composition, a suite of 5 seamless sections, where field recordings shift from fresh water trickling to surging surf, set to rapid metallic rattling and dubwise collisons, while mythological siren-like vocals draw inspiration from Shelia Chandra’s “AboneCroneDrone”. The…