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8.1 speakers, one performer
concept, compositions, performance: David Helbich
recordings: Frank van der Weij
edits, mastering: David Helbich
This work runs as an installation and can be performed live. At a first version at the In Situ Festival at Simian in Copenhagen (October 2022) the installation and the performance were two parts and aspects of the same material.
It is based and inspired by the version of 2016, where instead of recordings, 14 performers were slamming the actual doors of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, while the audience was walking choreographies in the space.
more on this:
https://davidhelbich.blogspot.com/2016/08/echo-ovations-2016-slamming-doors-at.html
program note:
Echoes come back to you, reverbs leave you.
"Echo
Ovation with Slammed Doors" ritualises the transformative power of
disappearing sounds. In contrast to the spatial overlays of sounds that
can be sustained, the reverb tail of explosive sounds gradually reveals
their entire inner life. Depending on the size and conditions of the
space and the presence of people, the components of the event unfold
differently, sometimes faster and sometimes slower, sometimes from top
to bottom and sometimes from bottom to top.
A performative act to impress the living and honor the dead.
For
this performative installation, the 14 doors inside the Oude Kerk,
Amsterdam's oldest church, were recorded. Under the church lie up to
10,000 people buried from 8 centuries. I can't help but imagine a
transmigration of souls with each slamming of the doors.
Distributed
over eight loudspeakers, ever new spaces are created in the
superposition of composed constellations, the space within the
recordings and the current space in which we are now together, a space
so reverberant, that once you lost certainty about when sound events are
done happening,
you might get uncertain as well about when they
start.
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