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Player 080
Alexei Borisov,
Olga Nosova and ::vtol::
The Fourth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
Commissioned by
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary for the 4th Moscow Biennial 2011
(23.09-30.10)
A collaborative project between three Moscow-based sound artists,
Player 0-8-0 functions as an audio-visual installation as well as an
interactive tool where abstract images and sounds are transformed
through audience participation, and it further extends into a number of
live performances.
Using audio-visual material drawn from the deconstruction,
reconfiguration and re-programming of a variety of objects, ranging
from electronic toys to music instruments and custom-made devices, the
artists apply the term “circuit bending” to
describe these
processes of audio-visual production, thereby relating them to the
mechanical manipulation of a perfect geometrical shape into a
non-conventional form.
Referring to audio material, this can be understood as the creation of
sounds outside a normative system by dismissing the intended use of
(sound-producing) objects or through constructing new audio devices.
The reference of a circular shape also relates to the numbers 0 and 8
mentioned in the work’s title, which hint at an
“endless
process of reproduction” (Borisov), with the synthesizers
used
for the work being able to process sound continuously over a period of
24 hours.
A combined object consisting of cassette players, audio and video
synthesizers, video-monitors and loudspeakers, Player 0-8-0
investigates the transformation of audio signals into video signals and
as a result, analog information into digital as a process of
codification. It also engages with processes of de-codification and
re-codification through its unconventional use of objects in order to
create sounds. The artists’ emphasis on
“code” as a
key element of their installation, however, suggests that their use of
the term is stretching beyond digital language into the social sphere
where the production of meaning with its relation to language and
perception is positioned within a shifting network of codes. Allowing
free interaction with the installation also ties Player 0-8-0 to more
performative aspects of sound production.
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