Time Exposed and...
/ Hommage à Hiroshi Sugimoto and La Monte Young (2021)
for bass flute, 2vibraphones, 2keyboards, electric guitar, string quartet and electronics

Performed on 31.10.2021 by Vertixe Sonora in Auditorio Martín Códax (Vigo, Spain)

Performance Video : https://youtu.be/hBE9Pd0_3Bc

Covid-19 and the climate change that we are experiencing right now are calling for major changes in our daily life, politics, and economic system, which have been formed for the last 200 to 300 years by a machine civilization, capitalism, and globalization.
This requires a big shift in the positive sensibility of the vertically upward energy that we have so far in our senses and fantasies.
In this piece, I tried to explore the possibility of horizontal time through Bergsonian duration time and phenomenal time in our nature rather than the typical and traditional developmental musical time. Also I tried to approach the possibility of our sense of artificial but continuous time in a affirmative way.
From this idea, the thoughts and works of Hiroshi Sugimoto and La Monte Young gave me huge inspiration. In particular, the word „Time Exposed” in the title of the work is one of Sugimoto's series of works, in which he shoots phenomena caused by pushing the camera's exposure time to the extreme by exceedingly long exposure times of the camera. The work produced in this way shows the transformed space that the photographed space already has but could not be seen. Similarly, La Monte Young transforms the space surrounding the music by choosing reduced sounds within an extremely long musical time.
With this concept, rhythm, the anthropologic material, and the timbre of instruments are crucial elements for this transformed space. The meeting of random and intentional rhythms in an accidental space, and the timbres of the instruments with specific connotations make this space not just as a simple abstract space but also a complex theatrical space. This artificial soundscape is my own dialectical exploration of the continuous of time.

Time Exposed and...

I xxxx you because you xxxx me; entangled 
for amplified ensemble (2021)

November 29, 2021 - Basel, Gare du Nord, mirror///error
kinnect kollektiv
Live recording

I xxxx you because you xxxx me; You xxxx me because I xxxx you; I don’t xxxx you because you don’t xxxx me; You don’t xxxx me because I don’t xxxx you; I am you because you are me; A xxxx B because B xxxx A; I'm small, if you think I'm small; I'm big, if you think I’m big; I'm xxxx, if you think I’m xxxx; You are xxxx, if I think you are xxxx; It is about relation and dynamic; It's not about simple logic but about desire of life.

When I die, everything is lost to me. So I want to be with more desire, even though I know it's all gone when I die.  I don't live with the thought of dying. I think it's someone else's story. I after dying am to me  a stranger. It is about relation, that exists, but doesn’t exist. So things we can think are easy to fool. So things the earnestness can be more sincere. It is about the dynamic the relation creates.

I can not control even my shallow feelings. On the one hand, what can a very weak human  being, bound by memories from a very young age, really control anything? How I think about you affects you is that you become me, and vice versa is of course possible. If something happens to the beings which are very far from each other at the same time for no reason, it is an event that is out of their will, whether material or spiritual, existential or non-existential. It just happens regardless of our will.

Music not music, and music without music are music in the present time. I not me and I without me am me in the present time. I am denied by this time and this space and I resist it. I xxxx you because you xxxx me. You xxxx me because I xxxx you.

I xxxx you because you xxxx me; entangled (2021)

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