“… the physicality of the listening experience becomes all the more emphasised I think through working spatially. As composers we always think of course spatially, we don’t just hear this dry thing in our head, the music does not live until it is moving and it is being carried through space and the physicality of…
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spirits in the house
The Labor of Art.The Labor in Art.The Art of Labor.The Art in Labor. This Light… The souls that inhabit the space. Still. The vigilant observing workers, the artists of their craft, continue to keep their watchful eye over their space of work. Now space of and for work(s) of art. Same piece, same performers, same…
A moving book. A book that moves.
PLAY/READ is an installation. But really… it is so much more. A spectacular experience. It is a moving book.As if you are reading the book, but there are no words.So you are watching the book.And it is all spoken.So you are hearing the book.But also it is a loop and you are not sure what…
… only the mobiles were exactly what they were, and nothing else.
“The man said: “That was what they were supposed to do… ” He said: “Everybody saw something different after all depending on the way they looked at the mobiles… only the mobiles were exactly what they were, and nothing else…” from “Works of Calder” by Herbert Matter Calder loved all kind of experiments… with music……
Brain – the most marvelous machine in the known universe
“Traveling across 500,000 neurons, the images took two years to complete. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Dunn and Edwards developed special technology for the project. Using a technique they’ve called reflective microetching, they microscopically manipulated the reflectivity of the brain’s surface. Different regions of the brain were hand painted and digitized, later using a computer…
a romance in lower mathematics
“Based on the book by Norton Juster from 1963, this 1965 short film won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film. Created by classic animation artist Chuck Jones, the story was inspired by the Victorian novella “Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions,” in which the protagonist visits a one-dimensional universe called Lineland, where women are…
The birth of the Clapping (music)
“A late evening in Brussels, 1972, Steve Reich attends an ill-performed night of flamenco in a cheap nightclub. He and his ensemble deride the playing, grimace through the singing but are suddenly struck by a moment of epiphany as the dancers bring hands together in the corrillo for a section of Palmas. Walking out into…
Sound of Space
Although space is a vacuum, sound does exist in it. Not as pulsing waves through the air how we perceive it, but as electromagnetic vibrations -electromagnetic waves that pulsate at the same wavelength as the sound waves… so we can actually hear the sounds in(of)space. The specially designed instruments on several NASA probes, including Voyager,…
Hands of Bresson
“The things one can express with the hands…” – Robert Bresson “A work of archival criticism that forgoes the language of rigour for that of rapture… here are hands – votive, tender, purloining, trembling – that make me want to raise my own hands in gratitude to this mysterious poet.” – Sukhdev Sandhu, Sight &…
the man who planted trees
“The Man Who Planted Trees (L’homme qui plantait des arbres), also known as “The Story of Elzéard Bouffier, The Most Extraordinary Character I Ever Met, and The Man Who Planted Hope and Reaped Happiness”, is an allegorical tale by French author Jean Giono, published in 1953. It was adapted to this animated short by Frédéric…