The Next Two Weeks
Posted in: Current Speculations on January 24, 2010
Reconstituting the Studio
I have three new projects going on in the next two weeks. The first is an installation and performance in a small church in Weimar, Germany called Zwischen den Jahren 2010:
Zwischen den Jahren 2010 is a tribute to the Weimar punk band Die Madmans in the form of a memorial, a remix, a sound installation, and a listening party. The installation of the reworked songs of Madmans in the context of their former practice space in Jakobsaal makes audible the contrast between two logics: the history of space and the memory of events. The continuous return and disintegration of sound demonstrates both the intensity and fragility of this confrontation.
The memorial consists of two record players positioned at either end of Jakobsaal. Each of the record players plays, continuously, a piece of music that has been re-composed using samples from the songs of Madmans. These songs are pressed into soft plastic dub plates made of acetate. As the records play and replay the sound quality of the recording begins to decay until there is nothing left but a soft static. Like individual and collective memories of a certain place, this memorial is prone to degradation and decay. Eventually all traces of what once happened in this place will disappear.
The installation will be open on Wednesday, January 27 and Thursday, January 28 from 7pm to 10pm. There will be an opening party on Thursday at 6pm. The location of the installation is Jakobsaal im Pfarrerhaus am Jakobskirchof 9, Weimar, Germany.
The second project is the first installation of a project called Psyte that I have been working on for a while. The score uses the architectural dimensions of the space of its performance to generate its musical content. Though intended for a live band I have modified the score for four automated CD players. The installation will happen in the soon to be demolished Haus 4 of the Bauhaus Universität in Weimar and will be open Friday, January 29 and Saturday, January 30.
On February 4 I will be traveling to Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovinia to present the work done for Zwischen den Jahren 2010 and to complete a different installation of the Psyte project at the Sarajevo Winter Festival.
Photos forthcoming.