171229 Mapping Paradise

Unicellular Music is focused on the material aspect of music and auditory perception. Where the musicality emerges from and how the musical form is generated? Exploring that Marika and Leopard invented new kind of musical instrument — Самотряс (that means “Shaky”) — electric analogue of the Pythagorean Monochord. They build them each time anew from the furniture, trees, stones, barks or doors. Chaos Sense Delight is a “nominological” game with Unicellular Music, multispeaker sound installation, objects, images, video-projections, documents as an elements. https://youtu.be/k6ZFn1xXwTc

— Да, песню с альбома. Сказать ему, что в самотрясе самое главное, к сожалению, невозможно передать в записи, потому что при записи музыка обретает время, которое вообще не заложено в философию этой музыки.

— И пространство. Мы, когда работаем со звуком и самотрясом, используем пространство как часть инструмента. И уши — как орган. И когда говорим, и когда играем — уши для нас часть инструмента, как и пространство. Это для нас чрезвычайно важно.

The Opera’s second major action, Corrida — the shifter was Brezhnev — took place during ZKM’s Open Day, which gave us the prospect of a mass audience. In the large hall we suspended all our belongings, tied together on strings, connected the wires and a specially developed software procedure. The strings’ vibrations controlled the generation of sound from a library we had collected during years of travelling. We operated the system through a performative practice: moving on wheels, interacting with the strings and striking them with absurd objects — a paper hammer, a thin hose, a chair, an oar, a small stick, and so on. Corrida lasted all day, with two breaks in which we repaired the suspended construction. It became a mocking clown show about the corporate, commissioned “technological” art officially professed by ZKM. That day we had an audience success unprecedented for us, and not surpassed since.