Friday
May 5
8 pm
installation for a variable number of balloons and prepared syringes, by
Serge Baghdassarians & Boris Baltschun
Serge Baghdassarians (*1972, Fürth) & Boris Baltschun (*1974, Bremen) are two Berlin-based soundartists working together since 1999. They have been working in a variety of fields within experimental sound practices: composed and improvised music as well as soundinstallations. Expansion into the areas of music-theatre and radiophonic work is planned. When they perform live they use electro(-acoustic)nic instruments, analog and digital.
Since 2005 they are working on the development of a new 'instrument', a system of interdependent analog and digital electronic devices, where every move of each performer effects the sounding result directley, thus creating one meta-instrument where the division between two instruments/performers is obsolete. the individual is the collective and vice versa.
Past projects include:
- a series of performance concepts
called 'now that this has been done it will never have to be done again' with
about 30 performances and recordings made between 2001 and 2004.
Recent activities:
- brownout, the first soundinstallation in the 'musica povera' series: a large
body of handbuild (and cheap) sound producing objects that resemble electronic
music and sound over many hours.
- 10¡ ('konservatorische ma§nahme'), number two in the 'musica povera' series:
a network of vibrating strings, driven by battery operated motors and using
tin cans as resonators. Here, the system setup determines the actual pitches
and resulting patterns in a very slowly but ever changing way. With the loss
of the batteries energy over time, the overall sound gets quieter and softer
and leads to changing overtones and ultimatley to the silence of the system.
- VOT, variationen ohne thema (variations without theme), a network performance
instrument used to remix and perform their latest cd (a studio work called
14:09\11:04\25:09 and released on charhizma).
future activities:
- a radiophonic piece -brownout II- about and around los angeles' mexican
(im)migrants / migrating music.
- a deconstruction and remix of the opera figaro by w.a.mozart (using only
historic recordings from the 30s to 50s as sources) combined with text by
carl schmitt.
- number 3 in the 'musica povera' series: small 'noise machines' driven by
natural energy.
furthermore, they have been continuously working with dror feiler (as KOMBINAT), Andrea Neumann/Annette Krebs (as HELIX), Günther Christmann (as mal d'archive), Alessandro Bosetti/Michel Doneda (as strom) and in a trio with Burkhard Beins.
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