A Sequencer (Yellow on Grey), 2013
HD-Video, eingelegter Bildschirm + Konstruktion, Ton, 3:52 min., Mobile, Edition 2/3 + 1 AP
HD video, inlaid screen and construction, sound, 3:52 min., mobile, edition of 2/3 + 1 AP

Installaton View
with second element (Mobile / Percussion Score) “

A Sequencer (Yellow on Grey) is a filmed situation: a set of cream and sand coloured plinths of different shapes and dimensions serves as a landscape for scallops, alive and occasionally clacking their shells.

Sometimes they do this when the camera is not looking; sometimes when the viewer is not looking. They slowly punctuate an otherwise silent film which calmly pans across this artificial landscape, in anticipation of action. Sometimes a shell falls, sometimes it seems nothing happens. Pointedly, a sequencer is a musical instrument – a machine which allows to define a sequence of parts, to form a rhythm, a song or even a whole musical work. Something which sequences events, in time. This artwork, then, is a very stretched, absurdly slow and extended version of a percussion composition, a rhythm.

There is a steel mobile in the room, which is designed from this very rhythm; each vertical line of this object is encoded from the soundtrack of the film – every line is a ‘clack’ and its sonic intensity defines the length of the line. The distance between the vertical rods is defined by the durations of silence between them.