during, lasting .. exhibition piece

Over the course of a number of consecutive days, an ensemble of musicians visits a space on a daily basis, unannounced and uncoordinated. Playing positions have been fixed in a spatial setting and following their arrival each musician plays a one hour part from the same position every day. With the permutation of the ensemble on a particular day left to chance, the piece displays an aleatoric process of dismantling and re-integration of its parts.

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More than being a work of long duration, ‘during, lasting..’ is comprised of reconfigured time. Accordingly, it can take the shape of a silenced space -an environment of no or few sounds or activity-, of a compositional space enveloped by progressing tones and including a multitude of instruments, or of one of the many transitionary stages in between.

during_lasting_01. during, lasting .. exhibition piece @ Nearly Not There exhibition, W139, Amsterdam 2015

. hear during, lasting .. exhibition piece @ Nearly Not There exhibition, DNK Ensemble

(full recording (55:00) available at Compost and Height

. during, lasting .. exhibition piece @ Errant Bodies Project Space, Konzert Minimal, Berlin 2014

. during, lasting .. exhibition piece at Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai 2014

. download score _during, lasting.._number routine_matrix