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stable instabilities • animated objects
An idea which is many times taken for granted, is that of the piece of art-music as consisting of a collection of finely detailed and controllable sound events, conceived by the composer in a very specific way. In this sense the piece of music, like a painting or sculpture, is thought of as a type of inanimate object.
In this piece I attempted to create a sonic and poetic situation in which this ‘objectified’ perception of the musical piece is challenged. In it, I imagined a living and breathing essence breaking at the seams of a still object. The piece is predominantly composed of sounds which are on the one hand continuous and built upon a regular pulse, but on the other hand are to some degree unstable, unpredictable or difficult to control. In addition, the physicality of the performer is brought into play by incorporating inhaling sounds into the composition.
In this way, the usual dichotomy between the player and and the ‘pure’ music he aims to convey via his instrument is undermined – player, instrument and sound are fused into a type of one unified ‘animal’.
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