Rebecca Horn, sculpture with permanent sound installation in Naples Metro
Naples, IT (2022)
Sound piece composed for Rebecca Horn’s permanent sculpture in a Naples Metro station. Composed with voice and field recordings captured in Naples, both in public places and ancient Roman sites. As the music will greet thousands of people a day in one of Naples’ main metro stations, the composition was made to reflect the conversation of a large space for travel receiving many moving bodies in the day and then being empty at night, continuing in a loop. Voice and field recordings were slowed down and used to mimic the whistles of trains, the squeak of shoes running, the distant drones of machinery and human voices. The found sounds include preserved historical spaces, Mount Vesuvius, locals ruins, and a Roman aqueduct.
Sound Piece for Naples Metro
Karen Amiel, Dreams of the Alcazar
San Jose, CA, USA (2018)
Sound piece made in collaboration with Karen Amiel’s oil painting based on Diego Velázquez’s “Las Meninas”. The 40-minute ambient composition draws from the Spanish Phrygian Scale, common to music of 17th Century Spain. An improvisation was recorded with an analog synthesizer layered on top of evolving granulated voices, which were then all time-stretched to allow overtones and hidden sounds to emerge, much like the changing of memories over time.
Rebecca Horn, Passing the Moon of Evidence
Studio Trisorio, Naples, IT (2018)
Live vocal piece performed for Rebecca Horn’s exhibition Passing the Moon of Evidence. The lyrics of the piece were written based on the title of the show and also improvised on opening night. Pieces of poetry were written in Naples while collecting sounds of various geological and historical sites for use in a future sound piece. The performance evokes the ancient and volcanic history of Naples, the moon and stars, and the shoreline that frames the fiery city.
Rebecca Horn, Hauchkörper
Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, DE (2017)
Sound piece composed for Rebecca Horn’s kinetic sculpture Hauchköper. Arranged with live vocal loops and field recordings from the origin site of Rebecca Horn’s workshop and the forest around it. The piece was performed as an interpretation of the sculpture’s movements while it is in motion. It premiered on the occasion of Horn’s retrospective exhibition while receiving of the Wilhelm Lehmbruck sculpture prize.
Rebecca Horn, Tanz Im Pirouette
Moontower Foundation, Bad König Zell, DE (2017)
Sound piece composed with live voice loops and field recordings from the nature around Rebecca’s Horn’s studio in Bad König Zell, Germany. The piece was composed for Rebecca Horn’s kinetic sculpture Tanz Im Pirouette and performed on the occasion of the Moontower Foundation summer exhibition and dinner.
Rebecca Horn, permanent sound installation for sculpture in Naples Metro
Naples, IT (TBA)
Sound piece composed for Rebecca Horn’s permanent sculpture in a Naples Metro station. Composed with voice and field recordings captured in Naples, both in public places and ancient Roman sites. Since the music will greet thousands of people a day in one of Naples’ main metro stations, the composition was made to reflect the conversation of an empty space receiving constant moving bodies in the day, then retiring at night. Voice and field recordings were slowed down and used to mimic the whistles of trains, the squeak of shoes running, the distant drones of machinery and human activity. The found sounds include preserved historical spaces, Mount Vesuvius, locals ruins, and a Roman aqueduct. The piece is currently being installed.
Sound Piece for Naples Metro
Karen Amiel, Dreams of the Alcazar
San Jose, CA, USA (2018)
Sound piece made in collaboration with artist Karen Amiel’s oil painting based on Diego Velázquez’s “Las Meninas”. The 40-minute ambient composition draws from the Spanish Phrygian Scale, common to music of 17th Century Spain. An improvisation was recorded with a synthesizer, layered on top of evolving granulated voices, and then all together time-stretched to allow overtones and hidden sounds to emerge, much like the changing of memories over time.
Rebecca Horn, Passing the Moon of Evidence
Studio Trisorio, Naples, IT (2018)
Live vocal piece performed for Rebecca Horn’s exhibition Passing the Moon of Evidence. The lyrics of the piece were written based on the title of the show. Pieces of poetry were written while in Naples to collect sound of various geological and historical sites for use in a future sound piece. The performance evokes the ancient and volcanic history of Naples, the moon and stars, and the shoreline that frames the fiery city.
Rebecca Horn, Hauchkörper
Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, DE (2017)
Sound piece composed for Rebecca Horn’s kinetic sculpture Hauchköper. Arranged with live vocal loops and field recordings from the origin site of Rebecca Horn’s workshop and the forest around it. The piece was performed as an interpretation of the sculpture’s movements when it is set in motion. It premiered on the occasion of Horn’s retrospective exhibition while receiving of the Wilhelm Lehmbruck sculpture prize.
Rebecca Horn, Tanz in einer Pirouette
Moontower Foundation, Bad König Zell, DE (2017)
Sound piece composed with local field recordings and live voice loops. The piece was composed for Rebecca Horn’s kinetic sculpture Tanz in einer Pirouette and performed on the occasion of the Moontower Foundation summer exhibition and dinner.
