As time goes on: 100 hours sound installation at PIKSEL Festival, Bergen, November 19-22th 2015

As time goes on: 100 hours sound installation at PIKSEL Festival, 

Bergen, November 19th - 22th 2015

http://15.piksel.no/?s=gavaz

http://piksel.no/ftp/piksel15/design/catalogue/piksel15_catalogue_WEB_11112015.pdf

As time goes on

“The phenomenon of music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the co-ordination between man and time.” Igor Stravinsky, Chroniques de ma vie)

As time goes on (*1) is a Pure Data patcher that manages sound files in relations with running time, starting from a given moment considered “the beginning” ( [bang] ).

Conceived in October 2011 for Arte Nova art gallery As time goes on, took the start, in those occurrence, from the recording of the opening concert of a contemporary art exhibit: three different audio samples – each of 100”, recorded during the opening concert – were fragmented and played throughout the duration of the exhibition (100 days), endless (24 h day), every day longer and longer up to the full 100% sample at the end of the exhibition, 100 days later.

This crescendo molto lentamente has been ruled by the tactus of 3 different metronome (timing):

1 – normal western actual time: 100 days/24 hours/60 minutes/60 seconds
2 – french revolution time: 100 days/10 hours/100 minutes/100 seconds
3 – smooth time: every sample of a fixed duration (1 actual normal second) performed at time intervals ever shorter, up to saturate the 100 sample; a rhythmic glissando.

I look for a space, time and meaning specificity to set the parameter of As time goes on in strong connection with the context.

This version uses three samples of my voice reading the present statement in three languages: English, French and Italian. This seems to me coherent with the triple time core (see up 1,2,3) of the project and with the fact I live and work in France and Italy and I was very often in Bergen (sorry, not enough to speak fluently Bokmål or Nynorsk ….)

(*1) … wie die Zeit vergeht … is the title of a famous essay written in 1957 (the year I was born) by Karlheinz Stockhausen

Something new is an irregular new(s)letter about me 

(Giuseppe Gavazza)