NUT | LAC 4

Finished 2024
Installation Performance for Double Bass, Bass Drum and Electronics
duration: 40'

The NUT | LAC series is the outcome of a radical process of reduction. Slowly flowing streams of sound are broken by equally slow, drilling pulses. The relentless interruptions in turn create the impression of sliding back into a state of flow.
A continuous drone will, sooner or later, merge with its surroundings; steady beats bring about social synchronisation. The pulses and pauses in NUT | LAC throw us back onto ourselves, anchoring the underlying drones to the here and now. At the same time, they unsettle our perception of time: the formation of centres of gravity, accelerations and decelerations, shifts and broadenings — all of this takes place in the material, but just as much in the listener’s mind.

In NUT | LAC 4, the continuous sounds of double bass and bass drum remain acoustically open; the superimposed layer here takes the shape of a distinctly separate counterpart. Insistence and refusal, figure and metamorphosis, repetition and continuum, alarm, assault, trip, celebration.

Past Performances:


Feb 3rd, 2024
Stuttgart, Theaterhaus, Eclat Festival

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