The piece was created for an exhibition by the artists' collective No More Shame (https://www.facebook.com/vairakkaunanav/) held at Artist Cafe Fukuoka (https://artistcafe.jp), Japan, in April 2024.

The piece consists of two parts, the first being 6 minutes and 4 seconds long and the second 3 minutes and 44 seconds. The structure of the composition comprises 16 overtones, each of which is divided into various lengths. For example, the first overtone (the lowest one) is divided into 13 parts, with the longest one being 52 seconds and the shortest one 4 seconds. In the second part, the shortest sound is 6.2222222222224 seconds long, while the longest is 49.777777777776 seconds, and there are 8 such sounds in total. The next overtone is divided into 14 parts in the first part and into 9 parts in the second part, respectively. The durations keep getting shorter and shorter. By the 16th overtone, it is divided into 28 parts in the first part and 23 parts in the second part.

The result is a sound field that becomes denser as time progresses in the first part and reaches a culmination when all sounds occur simultaneously, then dissolves again in the second part.

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Untitled (2024)

Oskars Herlins