Saturdays
January 8, 15, 22 & 29
6 PM - Midnight
Grundik + Slava
Diapason Gallery, NYC, January 2005
with video projections by Shige Moriya
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The space of the
sound installation Diapason Gallery, NYC January 2005 is divided
into three partitions (room A, room B and virtual space C). Room A (the
big room) is sub-divided into thirteen sectors. Each sector contains a
sound source (speaker). Room B (the small room) is sub-divided into five
sectors. Each sector contains a sound source (speaker). The virtual space
C is sub-divided into two sectors. Each sector contains a sound source
(headphone).
Each sound source is connected
to the bank of sounds and silences. Each bank can contain from 11 to 349
sounds and silences. All sounds are taken from our earlier works or from
occasional field recordings.
Each bank stores specific types of sounds (music boxes, flutes, sine waves,
small noises etc). Every sound has a silent attachment (period of emptiness
of certain duration attached to the end of sound file). Each bank of sounds
and silences is played by an audio player. All the audio players play
sounds and silences simultaneously with random repeat mode on.
The title of this piece simply indicates the time and the place of its
realization.
I would like to dedicate this work to my two-month old daughter Lizaveta.
Grundik+Slava is the long time collaboration between Igor Grundik Kasyansky and Slava Smelovsky. They first met in 1994 in Israeli Bar-Ilan University. Slava studied computer science and Grundik was a poet. Very soon they found themselves producing sounds often using intuition and chance as doubtful substitution of knowledge and experience. Anyway it was a perfect combination, diabolic mixture of physics and lyrics. Slava gradually changed his life approach into the metaphysical one (which clearly harmed his career as software engineer) and Grundik bought his first computer. It took them five years to release their debut album One Second before the Planet Blows Up on the underground Jerusalem label Fact. And it took them another three months to emerge as the key figures at the small but active Israeli experimental and electronic scene. In 2001 Grundik has married and moved to New York, so now they call themselves sometimes intercontinental project. Today G+S continue to release albums, perform live, construct installations, write music for film, video, theatre and dance and do other interesting things. For more information about the duo go to www.grusla.com .
