photo by Katink Meersy
A loudspeaker projecting white noise is slowly taken by the high tide. As the tide rises up the white noise gets modulated in relation to the movement of the water.
performances
HIGH TIDES
CEASE TO EXIST
photo (1,2) by Pieter Kers | Beeld.nu
A LOUDSPEAKER BLOWS UP AND FALLS APART…
THE SOUND STOPS ABRUPTLY
HEART STOPS WHEN DEATH COMES
THE BLOWS FROM OUTSIDE
photo by Katerina Tamvaki
A MICROPHONE IS TREATED WITH HOT WAX DROPS AND EVENTUALLY SET ON FIRE…
the mic is exposed
no armor to wear
facing the world
a punch in the chest
each touch is a mark
each flame is a trace
its body a map that accumulates
the sound it makes
a desperate cry
feeling all those blows
until when it dies
ALL OF A SUDDEN
A microphone is placed on the asphalt at one side of a road.
It is slowly pulled towards the other side of the road where the audience stand.
The microphone keeps on going until it gets killed by the passing cars.
It’s like your loved one being struck on his/her way back home.
It’s like you passing away, all of the sudden…
Catch Me If You Can
A listener walks in a space holding a snare-drum in front of his face.
A thrower position himself opposite to the performer and set off a number of fire rockets aiming to reach the snare-drum (listener) and listen to the sound of the hit.
From a Distance
A loudspeaker is carried through a specific path/trail.
A fixed tone is played back through the loudspeaker at fixed intervals and predetermined dynamics.
A group of listeners position themselves in a specific spot in relation to the path of the loudspeaker and the acoustic/spatial surround.
The listeners perceive the tone in relation to their distance from the loudspeaker.
The tone appears and disappears responding to the topography of the place, the specific path of the loudspeaker and the atmospheric conditions.
The piece has been performed at the mountain festival Alture, ValTrompia, Brescia. For the occasion, a series of long sine sweeps and silences were played back from a loudspeaker that was carried from the malga Pontogna (1384 mt) to the top of the Gölem mountain (1957 mt). The piece/walk was about 50 minutes.
FIRE FROM WITHIN
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A selection of firecrackers, fire fountains and fireworks are light up from within a drum set.
The explosions grow up to the point where they cannot be contained anymore.
The drum set gets on fire and burns down.
The piece reflects on the dramatic end of a body (drum set) that has been fed with fear and doubts about realizing his/her right to self-empowerment and freedom.
THREE DOGS
Polish translation of Ronald Reagan’s joke about american and communist dogs. The audio was played back in loop for 1 hour on Patelnia Square, Warsaw on the 4th of july 2016 in the occasion of the NATO summit in Poland.
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Here’s story about three dogs.
An American dog, a Polish dog and a Russian dog.
They are all having a visit, and the American dog was telling them how things were in his country.
He said, “You know, you bark… after you bark long enough, then somebody comes along, gives you some meat.”
And the polish dog said, “What’s meat?”
And the Russian dog says, “What’s bark?”.
Ronald Reagan – President of the United States
Intersections
A loudspeaker is installed on the side of a straight road. It diffuses a constant stream of white noise. The loudspeaker is positioned in such a way that the projection of white noise is perpendicular to the direction of the cars. The audience stands opposite to the loudspeaker on the other side of the road.
When a car drives on the road, it intersects the projection of white noise. In this way the audience can perceive a cut in the white noise continuum. The sequence of cuts is organized in relation to the number, speed and size of cars that pass on the road.
The intersection between white noise and cars generates sound effects of masking, cut-out and cross-fade
Rough docu video here:
https://vimeo.com/138603693 (password “ciao”).
How Far Can I Get
A performer rotates a microphone in the air. At each turn the microphone cable is stretched a few inches more. The performer continues this way until the microphone crashes against the wall.
The performance is a metaphor about becoming aware of one own’s limits. The impact of the microphone to the wall represents the understanding of one own’s vulnerable nature.
Video – Research Material: https://vimeo.com/114553487 (password: “nevertoofar”)
My Target is Your Eyes
photo by Luca Ghedini
A thrower equipped with a slingshot tries to hit a microphone.
The impact of the hit is amplified and diffused at high volume from a loudspeaker.
The amplification of the hit allows the thrower to experience the “sensitivity” of the microphone, or in other words: to understand and share the feelings of another body.
Propagation of Sound
A choreographed sequence of white noise makes audible how sound propagates and interacts in relation to the architecture of the place and the movements of the performer.
Fundamental parameters for developing the performance are: 1) architectural features (walls, colums, openings, …); 2) direction and movement of sound (360° rotation, direct/reflected, filtering, speed of movement); 3) the positioning of the audience (positioning within a certain perimeter, distance from the performer).