during, lasting..exhibition piece by Martijn Tellinga

during, lasting..exhibition piece

Apr 15 - Apr 17, 2014 13:00 - 17:00

Over the course of 3 days and within a timeslot of 4 hours, 7 musicians visit the museum on a daily basis. They do so without conferring with each other. Playing positions have been fixed throughout the public spaces of the museum and following their arrival each musician plays a one hour part from the same position every day. With the permutation of the ensemble on a particular day left to chance, the piece displays a serial process of  dismantling and re-integration of its parts. More than being a work of long duration, 'during, lasting..' is comprised of reconfigured time. Accordingly, it can take the shape of a silenced space -an environment of no or few sounds or activity-, of a compositional space enveloped by progressing tones and including a multitude of instruments, or of one of the many transitionary stages in between.

Score parts describe simple patterns of sound and silence; sustained distinguishable tones only, one by one, repeated to form units and generally quiet. Between two tones, a long or even longer rest. No intended rhythmical correlation between parts has to exist, they are to overlap freely, or not. The number of musicians present in the space at a certain moment sets the complexity of interaction between their parts, the daily assemblage of the ensemble over time the unfolding of a form.

Performer:Homda Chan, Fei Fei, Hu Dayang, Jason LI, Emily Liu, Su Bin, Wang Lingjun, Wu Yunxin, Xue Chenqian, Xueli Yu

Planner:Martijn Tellinga

Support:Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

• About the artist

  Martijn Tellinga

  Martijn Tellinga (1974, Netherlands) is a composer and performer of musical proposals and acoustical situations. His practice renders an ongoing meditation on the rudimentary condition of the sonic arts. Employing a variety of means and drawn from a reduced formalist-seeming vocabulary, his work centers on the intuitive bending of (music) systems and the use of sound to express ideas of space and process. It includes a wide variety of  conceptual actions and chance operations, probing the emergent field between intended and accidental
  occurrences.
  
  Traversing the planes of music composition and the concert setting as such, his works thoroughly intertwine parameters of both aural and spatial perception. Including aspects of concert, installation and performance, sound is used to establish forms transitive and sculptural. Engaged with the formative principles of music, the scores for his instrumental works are often open-ended proposing simple rule-based systems that provide performers with a way to listen, act and interact.

  
  Recently he has been disclosing sound pieces and performance works in the public space -often employing intervention style tactics and principles of acoustic measurement-, negotiating the acoustics and structure of urban and nature sites.