B.O.D.Y. 2-2 Sound composition, 2010, Berlin

by Erika Matsunami

Audio Engineer: Niklas Schmincke

(Please listen on headphones)
The wall installation “B.O.D.Y.” of Erika Matsunami consists of a series of 20 fine art archival prints sealed with Fotosec and presented in a 20 x 100 cm space, as well as seven different sounds which can be heard through binaural haedphones and consist of recordings of people of different nationalities, gender and age groups. The 20 photos of different human bodies have been hung next to each other at 10–25 cm intervals, arranged from light to dark or dark to light gradients (there is no beginning or end of an image). In addition, seven sounds which individual guests can listen to through binaural haedphones supplement these images. Physical sensitivity is intensified together with the dual intimacy of the acoustic setting – a physically “attached” way of listening through binaural headphones where synthesised sound with an “intestinal” imagination evokes the function of internal organs (the steady rhythm of a heartbeat, breathing and the tentative sounds of organs). The intensity in both the audible range and field of view stimulate the onlookers’ imaginations, which in turn leads to a sensitisation for the otherwise invisible details of living bodies. This wall installation was created with a collage technique and the audio is based on the Surrealist method of dépaysement. The effect of the installation is intensified by the sounds, which, as a sensual audible expression, are completely devoted to the audience and allow onlookers to ultimately make their own free associations with the images.
The gradient from light to dark or vice-versa is a metaphor for “time, space and bodies” in nature, for life and for death.

concept:
Erika Matsunami
sound composition:
© 2010/Erika Matsunami and Niklas Schmincke (GEMA, Germany)
Image: from project "B.O.D.Y."© 2009/Erika Matsunami, Germany

B.O.D.Y. - 2-2 original

Project "B.O.D.Y."

piece of glass-for spiral form by Erika Matsunami, 2012 (This is a core (heart) of my concept for the spatial installation (8-ch-soundinstallation) and for the audiovisual work B.O.D.Y. 2012-2013.  It's a part of my sound work for the Sonority also.) (miniatures-through the simple repetition will be abstracted and finally it's not "piece of glass". This piece is a part of my sound composition which is created with pieces of broken glass.) 
©Erika Matsunami/GEMA, Germany
Image; from project "B.O.D.Y."© Erika Matsunami, Germany, 2012

piece of glass-for spiral form (bits of broken glass) by Erika Matsunami-original

Project "B.O.D.Y." - piece of glass-original by Erika Matsunami and Niklas Schmincke, 2012   
A part of this sound is created/generated with Shepard tone.
A Shepard tone, named after Roger Shepard, is a sound consisting of a superposition of sine waves separated by octaves. This creates the auditory illusion of a tone that continually ascends or descends in pitch.

This piece is a part of my sound composition with Nikals Schmincke which is created with pieces of broken glass.

©Erika Matsunami and Niklas Schmincke

B.O.D.Y.-piece of glass-NiklasSchmincke-ErikaMatsunami-original

4 ch Sound "Les coloris" (2010/2012)#01 by Erika Matsunami

©Erika Matsunami

"Les coloris" (2010/2012)#01 by Erika Matsunami-original

Project "B.O.D.Y."

Piece of glass-02(bits of broken glass)
This piece is a part of my sound composition which is created with pieces of broken glass.

©Erika Matsunami

Image; from project "B.O.D.Y."© Erika Matsunami, Germany, 2012

Piece of glass-02-(bits of broken glass) by Erika Matsunami-original

B.O.D.Y.-2-1 by Erika Matsunami

Audio Engineer: Niklas Schmincke
http://erika-matsunami.bildkunstnet.de/

(Please listen on headphones)
The wall installation “B.O.D.Y.” of Erika Matsunami consists of a series of 20 fine art archival prints sealed with Fotosec and presented in a 20 x 100 cm space, as well as seven different sounds which can be heard through binaural haedphones and consist of recordings of people of different nationalities, gender and age groups. The 20 photos of different human bodies have been hung next to each other at 10–25 cm intervals, arranged from light to dark or dark to light gradients (there is no beginning or end of an image). In addition, seven sounds which individual guests can listen to through binaural haedphones supplement these images. Physical sensitivity is intensified together with the dual intimacy of the acoustic setting – a physically “attached” way of listening through binaural headphones where synthesised sound with an “intestinal” imagination evokes the function of internal organs (the steady rhythm of a heartbeat, breathing and the tentative sounds of organs). The intensity in both the audible range and field of view stimulate the onlookers’ imaginations, which in turn leads to a sensitisation for the otherwise invisible details of living bodies. This wall installation was created with a collage technique and the audio is based on the Surrealist method of dépaysement. The effect of the installation is intensified by the sounds, which, as a sensual audible expression, are completely devoted to the audience and allow onlookers to ultimately make their own free associations with the images.
The gradient from light to dark or vice-versa is a metaphor for “time, space and bodies” in nature, for life and for death.

concept:
Erika Matsunami
sound composition:
© 2010/Erika Matsunami and Niklas Schmincke (GEMA, Germany)
Image: from project "B.O.D.Y."© 2009/Erika Matsunami, Germany

B.O.D.Y.-2-1 original

Erika Matsunami is a visual artist, sound composer and artistic researcher (practice-based transmedial transdisciplinary research that includes sculpture, music and choreography in the art discipline), who lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Erika Matsunami

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