IL TEMPO INSASSATO CHE PUR SCORRE
sound sculpture / installation (2020)
sound sculpture / installation (2020)
Two electro-mechanical devices are hanged on two opposing walls (left and right). The 1/4inch tape runs down slowly from each of them, pilling up on the floor. Each device is a box with a marble plate and imbedded loudspeaker. The tapes leak gently to the floor with pauses in between and after a while, each at its own time, they are being rewinded. The process repeats endlessly. Opposing the entrance, there is an object covered with a massive beige cloth. Underneath there are two loudspeakers. At the back of the room, left and right from the entrance, there is a sound coming from two floor monitors. The sound from the back fills up the room like the light.
Photos from the exhibition opening at the Weisser Elefant gallery, Berlin , 2020
This is an audio mix of the 4 elements from the installation.
Background sound is played through the floor monitors, stereo, and they are placed on your left and right as you enter the room. This sound fills up the space like the light and opens it up beyond the walls of the gallery space, implying a reverberant, large, empty room/hall. The sound is composed by layering the multitude of oscillators coming from the EMS Synthi 100, covering each part of the spectra.
The sound played through the speakers in front (which are covered by the cloth), are scattered sonic artefacts in low and mid registers, that should appear to be almost tangible and "real", as if something is moving beneath the cloth.
Devices hanging on the left and right wall are winding and unwinding the tape. They are sonified from within the box by the ready-made loops that consist of material produced by sampling the working procedures of the reel-to-reel tape recorder.
Durations of the tracks in the installation, differ from the ones in this mix which is made as an audio preview.
Background sound is played through the floor monitors, stereo, and they are placed on your left and right as you enter the room. This sound fills up the space like the light and opens it up beyond the walls of the gallery space, implying a reverberant, large, empty room/hall. The sound is composed by layering the multitude of oscillators coming from the EMS Synthi 100, covering each part of the spectra.
The sound played through the speakers in front (which are covered by the cloth), are scattered sonic artefacts in low and mid registers, that should appear to be almost tangible and "real", as if something is moving beneath the cloth.
Devices hanging on the left and right wall are winding and unwinding the tape. They are sonified from within the box by the ready-made loops that consist of material produced by sampling the working procedures of the reel-to-reel tape recorder.
Durations of the tracks in the installation, differ from the ones in this mix which is made as an audio preview.
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The installation premiered at the Weisser Elefant Gallery in Berlin in January 2020 at the group exhibition "Infinite", dedicated to Eliane Radigue |