In April 2021, during the COVID-19 lockdowns, late Israeli multidisciplinary artist Maya Attoun (1974-2022) invited musicians-sound artists Adaya Godlevsky and Lior Ashkenazy to perform a live soundtrack for her exhibition, Solar Mountains & Broken Hearts, displayed at Magasin III gallery in Jaffa. The exhibition was inspired by the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia in April 1815, which darkened Earth and led to a year known as “Year Without a Summer”.
This powerful volcanic eruption which caused worldwide climatic anomalies pushed Lord Byron to write on the following year his apocalyptic poem “Darkness”. That eruption also triggered horror stories, written by Byron’s closest friends. Mary
