Jonathan Uliel Saldanha

𝙅𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙐𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙡 𝙎𝙖𝙡𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙝𝙖 𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙨 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙘 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙖𝙥𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙮𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙢𝙮𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 *Surface Disorder*, 𝙖 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙡𝙗𝙪𝙢 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙡𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙚-𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙚 𝙚𝙭𝙝𝙞𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙋𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙤 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙇𝙞𝙨𝙗𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙣 2024-25.

Dense and unflinching, the record is built on permanent tension, reflecting the exhibition’s immersive, polyartistic environment where music, voice, and image converged into visions of dystopia. Rather than shy away from catastrophe, Saldanha embraces and amplifies it, sculpting sound into a ritual of coexistence with the torment of a collapsing world.

“Information From Angels” sets the stage with a 15-minute stretch of spectral electronics, voice-as-oracle, and shifting harmonic layers, pulling the listener into an unstable dream state between prophecy and overload. “Swarming The Pit” follows as a fevered swarm of textures — metallic particles, engine roars, rubbery pulses — an updated musique concrète driven by urgency and chaos. The closing “Wolf & Virus Dialogues” binds synthetic voices and distorted resonance in a fractured meditation, unsettling and spectral, hinting at viral adaptation and the uncanny terror of self-replication.

As with his projects HHY & The Kampala Unit or The Macumbas, Jonathan Uliel Saldanha proves here that his sonic language is singular: synthetic, ritualistic, and deeply visual. *Surface Disorder* is not a soundtrack of escape, but a vivid descent into the dystopian present — a work of resilience, myth, and sonic confrontation.