Infinite Sadness by Liz Wendelbo
Liz Wendelbo is in the electronic music synth duo Xeno & Oaklander whose latest album ‘Vi/deo” was released in October 2021. "Infinite Sadness" is the first song on the album. "Infinite sadness" is also a scent Wendelbo experimented with as she was writing the song. Confined in the studio during lockdown, pipettes and oils lived in symbiosis with music synthesizers, patch cables and video cameras. Online streams were the only form of communication with our music audience. Wendelbo would bless the video broadcast with incense in the room and sprays of perfume as part of the performance. These elements of ritual are apparent in the scent with Angelica, Saffron and Frankincense. Wendelbo was also interested in making Melancholia tangible. She sensed sadness could be turned into an object. She materialized melancholia with the scent of smoke, this purgatory fog. She also read on the history of spices, theories of smell through time, and modernist representations of vibration, so she wanted to give the scent the musty bookish character of oudh mixed with the futuristic feel of lab made molecules such as the iconic Aldehyde C11. Ultimately she was looking for a way to be transported to a more beautiful world with the desire and belief that change is possible.
Liz Wendelbo is in the electronic music synth duo Xeno & Oaklander whose latest album ‘Vi/deo” was released in October 2021. "Infinite Sadness" is the first song on the album. "Infinite sadness" is also a scent Wendelbo experimented with as she was writing the song. Confined in the studio during lockdown, pipettes and oils lived in symbiosis with music synthesizers, patch cables and video cameras. Online streams were the only form of communication with our music audience. Wendelbo would bless the video broadcast with incense in the room and sprays of perfume as part of the performance. These elements of ritual are apparent in the scent with Angelica, Saffron and Frankincense. Wendelbo was also interested in making Melancholia tangible. She sensed sadness could be turned into an object. She materialized melancholia with the scent of smoke, this purgatory fog. She also read on the history of spices, theories of smell through time, and modernist representations of vibration, so she wanted to give the scent the musty bookish character of oudh mixed with the futuristic feel of lab made molecules such as the iconic Aldehyde C11. Ultimately she was looking for a way to be transported to a more beautiful world with the desire and belief that change is possible.
Liz Wendelbo is in the electronic music synth duo Xeno & Oaklander whose latest album ‘Vi/deo” was released in October 2021. "Infinite Sadness" is the first song on the album. "Infinite sadness" is also a scent Wendelbo experimented with as she was writing the song. Confined in the studio during lockdown, pipettes and oils lived in symbiosis with music synthesizers, patch cables and video cameras. Online streams were the only form of communication with our music audience. Wendelbo would bless the video broadcast with incense in the room and sprays of perfume as part of the performance. These elements of ritual are apparent in the scent with Angelica, Saffron and Frankincense. Wendelbo was also interested in making Melancholia tangible. She sensed sadness could be turned into an object. She materialized melancholia with the scent of smoke, this purgatory fog. She also read on the history of spices, theories of smell through time, and modernist representations of vibration, so she wanted to give the scent the musty bookish character of oudh mixed with the futuristic feel of lab made molecules such as the iconic Aldehyde C11. Ultimately she was looking for a way to be transported to a more beautiful world with the desire and belief that change is possible.