Peter Bosch and Simone Simons
dal 1/4/2009 al 7/5/2009
Segnalato da
1/4/2009
Peter Bosch and Simone Simons
Forja Arte Contemporaneo, Valencia
Bang Spring Time. A new piece that emerges from a long history of vibrating works with metal springs. It is a long piece, both audibly and visually. A work that needs time to develop and to occupy the space for which it has been designed.
Bang Spring Time is a new piece that emerges from a long history of vibrating works with metal springs. It is a long piece, both audibly and visually. A work that needs time to develop and to occupy the space for which it has been designed. As in all of our previous work, the challenge has been to find a way of staying with the essential out of infinite artistic, mechanical and digital possibilities that appear. It is a journey that becomes more complex during the trajectory of its creation, a long process that ends up disposing of the extraneous in order to keep only what is necessary to let the poetry speak. Its sound is genuine, produced in real time. What you see is what you hear. Very long springs between two resonant bodies. Metal bars strike the springs and a wave is set in motion, traveling between object and object. The sound is born at the same time as the wave, and when the wave dies out the sound also fades away. Or is it the other way around?
The resonant bodies are made of urban industrial containers. Containers that once transported materials, often of great value. Without contents, these objects become only a worthless capsule: Immaterialized. In Bang Spring Time they are made useful again to be filled with vibrating air, and together they compose a musical delicacy. An experience that is immaterial, unique and unrepeatable.
Bosch & Simons have been focusing since 1990 on the development of ''music machines'', inventions that play largely their own game in a fascinating world somewhere between order and chaos. These machines are all dynamic: sound and movement are in constant development. The resonant frequencies of the constructions and the vibrations that they generate are so keyed into each other that the movements and sounds created by an installation can change almost imperceptibly from order into chaos and vice versa. Krachtgever is their best-known work for the Golden Nica it received at the Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, 1998. Other projects are Cantan un Huevo, that obtained a Mention at edition XXIX of “Bourges”, 2002, or Aguas Vivas, awarded with a honorary mention at the competition VIDA 6.0., Madrid, 2003. They have shown their work and have participated in numerous festivals in Europe and abroad, at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Z.K.M. Karlsruhe, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya and ACMI, Melbourne, among others. They participated in various editions of the symposia ISEA (International Symposia on Electronic Art) and ICMC (International Computer Music Conference). In Spain they have shown their work at Metrònom, Barcelona, Museu d´Art Modern, Tarragona and at the festivals Escena Contemporánea, Madrid, MEM, Bilbao and Ensems and Observatori, Valencia, among others.
Peter Bosch (1958) studied psychology at the Universities of Leiden and Amsterdam and thereafter studied sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.
Simone Simons (1961) studied at the audiovisual department of the Gerrit Rietveld Art Academy in Amsterdam. Since 1997 they work and live in Valencia, Spain.
Forja Arte Contemporaneo
Lebon 19 Bajo Derecha - Valencia