Human Metronome (2019)
SPOR Festival, Aarhus, Denmark
"THE WIRE - Adventures in sound and music"
writes about "Human Metronome":
"...The following day’s events take a more cerebral turn with the minimalist vocal piece for four singers, Louise Vind Nielsen’s "Human Metronome". Each singer repeats one syllable, sometimes changing the volume. It feels like listening to radar swoops of celestial objects looping out of phase with each other, and predicting each singer’s changes becomes increasingly interesting as the piece progresses..."
Review of SPOR Festival 2019 by Emily Bick
THE WIRE, Issue 427, September 2019.
Four people performs as voice-based metronomes. They follow their own feeling of 24 bpm and are not synchronized or calibrated. They can’t help it. They keep going and continue even though it hurts.
Essential to the piece is the human being’s sense of time and “self-time” in a world in which the pace seems to be constantly accelerating and huge parts of society moves on the verge of exhaustion.
“Human Metronome” is sonically relatively minimalistic and because of the asynchronous beats that emerge the listening audience will probably feel it resembles electronic avantgarde music such as Steve Reich tape-loops, Caterina Barbieri’s modular synthesizer-patterns that continue infinitely, or polyphonic voice-based music based on repetitive patterns as in the traditional music of the Pygmy tribes.
“Human Metronome” is part of Louise Vind Nielsen’s sound-based performative works in which she lets humans take over the roles of machines and thereby embody musical instruments. Most recently in the performance “Human Amplifier” where her live music are exclusively amplified by human speakers.
Concept and composition:
Louise Vind Nielsen
Vocal performers:
Cilla Leitao, Golshid Rokhzan, Esben Staugaard and Prefix Suffix
Curation:
Spor Festival - Anne Marquardsen and Anna Berit Asp Christensen
Thanks to:
KH7 Art Space & artist Kamilla Jørgensen
»It appears that time as a universal human measure has been obliterated. Clocks and watches have been confiscated. A shield conceals the changing colour of the sky. Everyone is forced to become their own clock, teasing out a vague memory of what those mechanical measures used to feel like.«
- Jack Chuter about the tape release Louise Vind Nielsen - “Human Tape Metronome” (2018, MAGIA)
Human Metronome (2019)
SPOR Festival, Aarhus, Denmark
"THE WIRE - Adventures in sound and music"
writes about "Human Metronome":
"...The following day’s events take a more cerebral turn with the minimalist vocal piece for four singers, Louise Vind Nielsen’s "Human Metronome". Each singer repeats one syllable, sometimes changing the volume. It feels like listening to radar swoops of celestial objects looping out of phase with each other, and predicting each singer’s changes becomes increasingly interesting as the piece progresses..."
Review of SPOR Festival 2019 by Emily Bick
THE WIRE, Issue 427, September 2019.
Four people performs as voice-based metronomes. They follow their own feeling of 24 bpm and are not synchronized or calibrated. They can’t help it. They keep going and continue even though it hurts.
Essential to the piece is the human being’s sense of time and “self-time” in a world in which the pace seems to be constantly accelerating and huge parts of society moves on the verge of exhaustion.
“Human Metronome” is sonically relatively minimalistic and because of the asynchronous beats that emerge the listening audience will probably feel it resembles electronic avantgarde music such as Steve Reich tape-loops, Caterina Barbieri’s modular synthesizer-patterns that continue infinitely, or polyphonic voice-based music based on repetitive patterns as in the traditional music of the Pygmy tribes.
“Human Metronome” is part of Louise Vind Nielsen’s sound-based performative works in which she lets humans take over the roles of machines and thereby embody musical instruments. Most recently in the performance “Human Amplifier” where her live music are exclusively amplified by human speakers.
Concept and composition:
Louise Vind Nielsen
Vocal performers:
Cilla Leitao, Golshid Rokhzan, Esben Staugaard and Prefix Suffix
Curation:
Spor Festival - Anne Marquardsen and Anna Berit Asp Christensen
Thanks to:
KH7 Art Space & artist Kamilla Jørgensen
»It appears that time as a universal human measure has been obliterated. Clocks and watches have been confiscated. A shield conceals the changing colour of the sky. Everyone is forced to become their own clock, teasing out a vague memory of what those mechanical measures used to feel like.«
- Jack Chuter about the tape release Louise Vind Nielsen - “Human Tape Metronome” (2018, MAGIA)