Searching for Beauty is a book project / album resulting from the residency of musician ChâteauGhetto in Johannesburg in 2017 with their poet friend Gilles Furtwängler, as well as a number of artists, musicians, and poets they became friends with there. This book contains a Bandcamp download link. It is a spoken word project of poetry intertwined with field recordings and ambient music. All suggesting wandering the streets of Johannesburg, a tragedy, a certain theatricality, hence the idea of the cinematographic form. The book, for its part, deals with the idea of credits, laying bare this information and the texts chanted, thus creating an artistic object interweaving names of instruments, street names, descriptions of sounds, transcriptions of conversations, and poetic texts.
— Editions Ripopée
