The Monument is Listening live performance KorSonor Festival 2023
The Monument is Listening live performance KorSonor Festival 2023
The Monument is Listening live performance KorSonor Festival 2023
The Monument is Listening.
The Monument is Listening is sound piece written using four hands, two brains, and two hearts, to reactivate Emilie Ding’s luminous installation "How High You Can Count - A Temporary Monument”. We took the outline of the work on the façade of the Mirabaud bank as if it were a musical score and used elements of field recordings of the location as well as found archives of Pauline Oliveros speaking about her practice.
Emilie Ding’s monumental work How High You Can Count (2017) is made up of luminescent tubes installed on the façade of the Mirabaud bank in Geneva. Six compositions of coloured segments reveal and amplify the grid structure of the façade. Pared down and enigmatic, they are the result of a rigorous protocol that translates the dates of birth and death of the American artist and composer Pauline Oliveros (30.05.1932–24.11.2016) into a code format, i.e. DD/MM/YYYY. A theorist and practitioner of Deep Listening, a principle based on the idea of listening in as many ways as possible to everything that can possibly be heard all of the time, Oliveros has developed a minimal sound language, born of attention devoted to the spatial and acoustic characteristics of places, which she reveals through the medium of sound. How High You Can Count pays tribute to the art of Oliveros, which is open to musical, philosophical and spiritual dimensions.
The Monument is Listening is sound piece written using four hands, two brains, and two hearts, to reactivate Emilie Ding’s luminous installation "How High You Can Count - A Temporary Monument”. We took the outline of the work on the façade of the Mirabaud bank as if it were a musical score and used elements of field recordings of the location as well as found archives of Pauline Oliveros speaking about her practice.
Emilie Ding’s monumental work How High You Can Count (2017) is made up of luminescent tubes installed on the façade of the Mirabaud bank in Geneva. Six compositions of coloured segments reveal and amplify the grid structure of the façade. Pared down and enigmatic, they are the result of a rigorous protocol that translates the dates of birth and death of the American artist and composer Pauline Oliveros (30.05.1932–24.11.2016) into a code format, i.e. DD/MM/YYYY. A theorist and practitioner of Deep Listening, a principle based on the idea of listening in as many ways as possible to everything that can possibly be heard all of the time, Oliveros has developed a minimal sound language, born of attention devoted to the spatial and acoustic characteristics of places, which she reveals through the medium of sound. How High You Can Count pays tribute to the art of Oliveros, which is open to musical, philosophical and spiritual dimensions.
