wood, metal, bicycle wheels, steel pipes, aluminum bowls, pans, plastic jugs, metal and plastic buckets, sheet metal, miscellaneous hardware
A dual-spinning double decker
stand, on which various percussion
instruments are hanging or are
attached. Surrounding the stand is
a 16-sided wooden frame. To the
side in a container are 16 elongated
drumsticks of different lengths.
Inspired by Zimoun’s large sound installations,
where he repeats small mechanisms over and over into
a large noisy installation , I chose to create a
similar pairing, but replaced all motorized processes
with people! I was very interested in carving out a
balance between competition and collaboration that
would lend itself to the most chaos and excitement. I
also found inspiration in a variety of non-artistic
games and devices (Fooseball tables, tandem bikes,
Tetherball), as well as my own musical practice as
a drummer, and my visit to the the Anarchestra
instrument library. With this piece, my goal is to
motivate individuals to connect to each other in a
way that goes beyond words, in a collaborative creative
experience where they are strangely connected into
reveling in a obnoxious cacophony of their own creation.
With this piece, each performance is forcibly totally
improvised, is completely unique, and resists any skill
barriers towards musical playing (no time signatures,
tempo, or scale can be adhered to). The point is to
foreground connection and creativity, and to put art-
making processes first over any final aesthetic output.