Safe in Sound: Morichales
09.24.25
A mix of original sonic offerings and curated music. An audio altar to provide protection to listeners.
This month Addae plays the Chris Gude film ‘Morichales’ in its entirety scored by Max Gude. Max is a composer whose influences are vast but is largely inspired by nature.
In Venezuelan Guayana, large gold reserves lie beneath “moriche” palms, attracting multitudes of miners from across the region. A narrator travels from far-flung mines in the jungle to the banks of the Orinoco River, trying to understand the uncertain fortune of the miner. His reflections combine illustrations and photochemical paintings to draw a map of the mining and commercialization of gold in Venezuela while beginning to question humankind’s extractivist relationship with nature. Filmed over the course of thirteen years, ‘Morichales’ is a journey immersed in the anxious quest for treasure.
