FOR THE MOMENT AND FOR THE RECORD
Last year I had the honor to show this piece
@donaufestival .
The sound installation “For the Moment and for the Record” features two bodies that require their physical presence to demonstrate their properties.
In the juxtaposition of these two bodies, their touch becomes sound/gesture
- the gesture becomes communication.
It doesn’t actually say something,
but rather demonstrates the human existence in language as pure mediacy. Essentially, the gesture is also the “not finding oneself in language.”
A gesture of pointing, directed towards other people as an interaction between humans, can take on the character of a social gesture - even in music. However, what is crucial is not just what is said or done, but how it is done. The manner of a gesture, its “intonation” as well as its effect, removes a gesture from its original context. Thus, the gesture is not just the realm of a purpose in itself, but of pure and purposeless mediacy that communicates itself to humans.
If “the elevated quality in language is the unsaid, unarticulated,” then in music, the elevated quality might be the unanalyzable, unnotatable, perhaps even what goes beyond the articulable.
FOR THE MOMENT AND FOR THE RECORD
electric guitar, amplifier, arduino, synthesizer machine, pendulum,
2021
@donaufestival
#soundinstallation
#touch #presence
Photo
@eselat