performances

WE SPEAK THE AIR WE BREATHE

2021


A choreographed sequence of white noise makes audible how sound propagates and interacts in relation to the architecture of the place.

The title of the work refers to the condition of interdependence that permeates all relationships. Streams of white noise become modified in relation to the surrounding physical space which sound encounters as it propagates. As we breathe the air we speak… drawing air inwards into our body and exhaling it outwards from our lungs back into surrounding space.

The performance in the video happened in 2021 but its first versions and research date back to 2014.

Performance: Davide Tidoni
Performed by Abigail Aleksander, Amber Meulenijzer, and Franziska Windisch
Video: Sander Tas with Davide Tidoni
Sound: Davide Tidoni

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HIGH TIDE

2020

photo by Katinka Meersy
A loudspeaker projecting white noise is slowly taken by the high tide. As the tide rises, the white noise gets modulated in relation to the movement of the water. As sound disappears, a feeling of separation and withdrawal fills the audience witnessing the loss.

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AS THE SOUND BURNS

2018
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CEASE TO EXIST

2017

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photo (1,2) by Pieter Kers | Beeld.nu
A loudspeaker blows up and falls apart. The silence that emerges after the explosion emphasises the transition from presence to absence…

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THE BLOWS FROM OUTSIDE

2016


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 it dies
photo by Katerina Tamvaki

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ALL OF A SUDDEN

2016

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A microphone is placed on the asphalt at the side of a road. The microphone is pulled to the other side of the road trying to reach the audience. The microphone continues to try to cross until it is hit by passing cars.

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HIT THE TARGET

2016

Catch me if you can

A performer walks in a space holding a snare-drum in front of his face. A thrower positions himself opposite to the performer and sets off a number of fire rockets aiming to reach the snare-drum and listen to the sound of the hit.

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FROM A DISTANCE

2016


A loudspeaker is carried through a specific path/trail.
A series of both fixed and sweep tones are 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 tones 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.

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FIRE FROM WITHIN

2016



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. MORE IMAGES HERE

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THREE DOGS

Intervention on Patelnia Square, Warsaw, 2016



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

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INTERSECTIONS

2015


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”).

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HOW FAR CAN I GET

2014
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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”)

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MY TARGET IS YOUR EYES

2014

A Slingshot And I 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.

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