Study for wave
The space was divided in half by a row of four wooden columns with a gap of about three meters between them.
I wanted to make a sort of moving wave of sound through the space and asked Paul, Horst and Leon to perform this work with me after just one short rehearsal.
Duration: exactly 30 minutes.
Performance:
The four people stood in the spaces between the columns, each looking in a different direction and holding a stopwatch.
Each performer had been asked to create a development of vocal sounds for 12 minutes that went from the softest to the loudest volume possible without forcing the voice.
The process was reversed during the next 12 minutes.
The first person began at zero with long low tones, the next people started two minutes after each other.
As well as executing his cycle of 24 minutes, each performer had to turn around twice.
The result was a growing but fumbling and uncertain vocal sound which reached four successive peaks to diminish again and end in silence.
The whole sound wave spread down the length of the space and, by means of the performer's rotating, went in all directions as well.
year | 1986 |
date | 01.05.1986 |
location | Experimental Intermedia Foundation New York |
performed by | Leon van Noorden, Horst Rickels, Paul Panhuysen and Toine Horvers |
curator | Paul Panhuysen, Phill Niblock |
photography | Phill Niblock |
project or event | Apollohuis festival |