Canción muda, 2017
Bird audio archive, bird cages, feathers, guitar strings, stones, cable & computer controlled dc motors.
Variable dimensions. Le Bon Accueil – Lieu d’arts sonores / Les Ateliers Du Vent, Rennes, France.
Cancion muda (en. muted song) is a sound installation that functions as the hybrid between an aviary and a precarious stringed musical instrument. It draws on the process of listening and observing bird songs recordings reproduced by mechanical means.
The installation is fed by an archive of audio recordings of different birds, which instead of being played back through common speakers, are reproduced as motion in a network of dc motors. The motors, tipped with bird feathers, hang inside bird cages prepared with piano strings, stones and tuning pegs. From the computer bird song recordings are converted into the electrical impulses making the feathers to scratch against piano strings which are streched and tuned inside the cages.
The sound patterns heard from the fluttering of feathers and the strings resonating in the metal, are articulated by dynamics of the birdsong´s audio characteristics, such as silence, repetition and irregularities in its melody structure.
Première exposition en France de cet artiste vénézuélien créant des installations sonores poétiques et méditatives en accumulant instruments de musique et objets sonnants mis en vibrations par de petits moteurs.L’artiste créera aux Ateliers du Vent avec une nouvelle installation sonore réalisée à partir de cages à oiseaux détournées. Munies de cordes de guitares et de plumes motorisées en guise de médiator elles deviendront elles-mêmes des oiseaux de métal au ramage inouïe.
First exhibition in France of this Venezuelan artist based in Berlin creating poetic and meditative sound installations by accumulating musical instruments and sound objects set in vibration by small motors.For his solo show at les Ateliers du Vent Ruben D’Hers is creates a new sound installation made from bird cages equipped with guitar strings and motorized feathers as a mediators. Evoking freedom, the whole creates a quiet soundscape made of the sound of the flapping wings of invisible birds and minimal composition for guitars.
Dimanche 22 janvier concert/cocktail dans un lieu insolite : la serre de production du campus Giorgio Frassati.
Un lieu exceptionnel pour découvrir un concert solo de Rubén D’hers et une sélection d’extraits du « Catalogue des oiseaux » D’olivier Messiaen
interprétés par les grands élèves du Conservatoire. A déguster autour d’un cocktail préparé et offert par la section restauration du lycée Saint-Exupéry.
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