 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|---|
YVAT, IULIA POPA, ADRIAN TABACARU
AMUSIA Installation
Yvat, Iulia Popa, and Adrian Tabacaru are a trio of artists from Romania.
The idea was inspired by one of the early paintings of Rene Magritte: "The Voice of Space" (1928), which questioned the gravitation by representing the impressive stillness of spherical objects projected on a clear blue sky. This was enriched by inspiration from Tom Gutt's metal objects based on the same spheres. Thus, they created a system of 7 metal and polymerized plastic/carbonic structure spheres , totalizing a surface with a length of almost 3 meters. The installation proposes a minimal environment in terms of space and colours. As in Magritte painting, the two hemispheres of each sphere are detached and in the empty median space, thus created, people are invited to insert and move gently their hands. These movements make sensors responsive to light to react and to generate sounds. Three people can interact in the same time with the 7 spheres, creating together melodic or noisy sounds, collaboration between them being another challenge of this installation. Noises and music generated by this particular space and its transient inhabitants are audible for the ones interacting with the sphere, only, by headphones. This gives the title of the installation: Amusia, which is the inability to recognize musical tones and rhythms or to reproduce them, or, roughly saying, it is the lack of music.
Besides the interactive character of this work, it can function as a musical instrument. In this regard, we propose to sustain the exhibit of our project by a live concert of electronic music with a duration of one hour , which will use this installation as amusical instrument together with other analogue devices. The show will be performed by yvat (who also composed the music) and Adrian Tabacaru (a classically trained percussionist).Yvat is a professional sound designer and over the past 10 years he released more than 20 albums of electronic music on different labels from all over the continent.
This installation is sponsored by the Romanian Cultural Institute.
