Sheet Music: the Performance (2019-2022)
"sheet music: the performance" are loop animations and kinetic sculptures that give motion to otherwise static graphics of Johannes Kreidler's notation based pieces "Sheet Music", where this movement wants to become the sounding of the graphics. These interpretations are imagined to be the objects of sound and music giving their eternal music performances, yet remaining truthful to composer's original intentions with the "Sheet Music" works, to 'convey the aura of sound and allow the viewer to imagine music'.
For a musician and a performer, sheet music represents a recording of a sound in the form of text and symbols. Symbols that they are then to set in motion by translating into sound and music. To play music and make sound is to make air move in a particular, hearing-perceivable way. Kreidler says for "Sheet Music" that it is imaginary music. The pieces are not to be interpreted by playing on an instrument, and certainly not improvised. They become only when imagined in one's head. As Kreidler gives no specific notes nor restrictions about the movement itself, as a performer, there had to be a way to make these pieces move. Without sounding. Without improvising. The following are music performances of these pieces, subtracted of sounding, of the presence of the performer's body, of the instrument... There is only the movement. The sounding, the music, is still left to be created in the imagination of the perceiver.
Pieces from Johannes Kreidler's "Sheet Music" featured in "Sheet Music: the Performance" include:
Alcohol Bed, All hung, Aura, Box Unlocked, calm rhythm, Candle, Depo 10, Forest, Getting Less, grid, Intelligence, On the Scale, one step further, Panorama, Side Effect, Sunset, That's You, There, Tombeau, Turm 5, Turn 6, Turm 9
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▓ "Side Effect" (2020)
▓ "Aura" (2020)
▓ "Tombeau" (2020)
▓ "On the Scale"[#1] (2020)
▓ "On the Scale" [#2] (2020)
▓ "There"(2020)
▓ "one step further" (2020)
▓ "Forest" (2020)
▓ "Chorest" (2019-2020)
14-static-piece installation with 43 individual drone-navigated elements
*this video is a simulation
Each of the 14-static pieces, the chord trees (“Chrees”) is a 2.5m tall installation.
43 individual drone-navigated elements are in the sapes of alterations (sharps, flats, natural).
The work functions as a self-standing installation (with sound), but it can also be a live-performative field.
Piece "Magical Chorest" is set for this installation, and is adjusted site-specific, with live performer(s).
▓ "Turmobiles" (2019-2020)
▓ "Candle" (2021)
candle is a music performance that is not a music performance but a book and a book that is not a book but a music performance
The installation-performance piecec is a flipbook and accompanying sheet music sheet the piece "Candle".
The installation is to be interacted with by the spectator.
The work is made as a series of 5 (five interpretations).
Dimensions: 14,5x20cm + 26x30cm (without installation)
Year of creation: 2020/2021
Materials:
candle#1/5 [in private collection, 2020] pencil on satin off-white paper (in the book); linen structured acrylic 230g canvas paper (for the sheet); hand bookbinding using a variation of the kettle stitch and various cutting techniques for the book cover; book cover: linen structured off-white canvas paper and black cardboard.
candle#2/5 [in private collection,2021] ink on matte white paper (in the book); hand bookbinding using a variation of the kettle stitch and various cutting techniques for the book cover; book cover: white canvas paper and black cardboard.
candle#3/5 [2021] ink on satin white paper (in the book); linen structured acrylic 230g canvas paper (for the sheet); hand bookbinding using a variation of the kettle stitch and various cutting techniques for the book cover; book cover: white canvas paper and white cardboard.
Exhibitions:
- May 3-9, 2021 [candle#3] Noisbringers transmedia exhibition-album "...IS THE NEW PUNK" at Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva/Switzerland
▓ "Into the Chorest" (2022)
The installation-performance piece is based on the "Sheet Music" piece "Depot 10".
Year of creation: 2021/2022
Materials: 320g paper, acrylic paint, clear fishing wire, stitch binding, bookbinding spine tape
Technique: hand cutting/carving and stitch binding
▓ "Sheet Music: the Performance" - installations [exhibiton simulation]
▓ Exhibition situations [simulations]
Exhibitions featuring Dejana's interpretations (installations, kinetic sculptures, loop animations...) and original Johannes Kreidler canvas'
•instances when interpretations are loop animations: wall projections
•instances when interpretations are installations/kinetic sculptures
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inspiration + sources + links
⊶ Johannes Kreidler: 'Sheet Music'
⊶ selection of 'Sheet Music', published by Éditions Allia, Paris, 2018
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