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yesterday
(2024)

composition & sound performance

beauchamp*geissler - yesterday
marta beauchamp - cello, balls, tubes
stefan geissler - tubes, balls, electronics, toy piano

Size: Variable




Photos © 1-4 Mika-Nikolas Mahringer 5 Gerhard-Himmer


Presented at the closing event of Ma Jia's art show “Yesterday", featuring large scale metal pipes at gezwanzig gallery Vienna, this sound performance develops around the variance in resonance, frequency and timbre of the pipes.
The composition orchestrates sounds generated by hitting and scratching the pipes, cello and toy piano imitations of the pipe sounds and electronic manipulations of pipe sound samples. The pace of the composition is set by the irregular beat of bouncing balls, whose disappearance into the tubes marks the end of the performance.


Video © Mika-Nikolas Mahringer