Ojú Oró, three pieces by Brazilian artist Ajítẹnà (Marco Scarassatti) featuring special partnerships offers a dive into his partilhar sound world.

The first, Ojú Oró, Strength and Sorrow, is part of the recent album Notes from a distant listening, released by Sirr-ecords label, and featuring Maya Quilolo. This work emerges as a poetic construction of lived, intuited, and imagined spaces, shaped by listening, memory, documentation, archiving, and invention. It is a journey through the layers of listening, the ways of recording, and the attempt to create a listening situation based on sonic fragments gathered from real places, recordings of improvisations, and (re)visits to a repertoire of recordings found in my personal archives—transforming the ordinary into raw material for invention.

The second sound piece is Arisca, from the yet unreleased album Beira, an improvisational album recorded and produced remotely, the result of a collaboration between singer Inés Terra, who explores a multitude of vocal sounds, and sound artist Ajítẹnà (aka Marco Scarassatti), who plays on this track the instrument he invented, called ẹlẹyẹ, or bird-trough. Beira will be released soon by the Scatter Archive and Brava labels.

At last, Txãi kamã kuru, from the album Ni yuxibū xinã rewe, by Ibã Huni Kuin, master of chant from Huni Kui indigenous amazonian people and Ajítẹnà and released by Sirr-ecords. Ni yuxibū xinã rewe which in Portuguese means Sounds of the Spirit of the Forest, emerged from an initial contact between Ajítẹnà and Ibã, in 2016 when recording the chants of Nixi Pae (Ayahuasca), in Porto Seguro, Bahia., Brazil.

Ajítẹnà Marco Scarassatti is a sound artist, composer and researcher whose work spans through unique constructed sculptures and instruments, installations and sound emblems. He is a lecturer at the Federal University of Minas Gerais – UFMG, Brazil