Caecilia Tripp
dal 26/4/2012 al 6/5/2012
Segnalato da
26/4/2012
Caecilia Tripp
Clark House Initiative, Bombay
Music for (prepared) bicycles. After John Cage & Marcel Duchamp. The project consists of seven bicycles in echo with "Music of change" by John Cage (1951) which will lead to seven sonic bicycle processions through seven different metropoles. The bicycle wheels are strung with musical strings of an electric guitar.
Music for (prepared) bicycles (after John Cage & Marcel Duchamp)
A project by Caecilia Tripp, 2012
“The image, the imagined, the imaginary – these are all terms that direct us to something critical and new in global cultural processes: the imagination as a social practice…. The imagination is now central to all forms of agency, is itself a social fact, and is the key component of the new global order.” (Arjun Appadurai)
The global project consists of seven « prepared » bicycles in echo with « Music of change » by John Cage (1951) which will lead to seven sonic bicycle processions through seven different metropoles. Each bicycle procession through the city is filmed, so that there will be seven films together with the seven bicycles in the end. The bicycle wheels are strung with musical strings of an electric guitar, and playing cards are placed in between the spikes, provoking musical sounds as the bicycle is on the move. The technique of the inserted playing cards translates John Cage’s « prepared piano » for the bicycle, but is also inspired by the vernacular culture practiced and invented by the teenagers in socially disregarded suburbs; relating both to each other. Beginning « Music for (prepared) bicycles » in Mumbai mingles further with John Cage’s entanglement with Indian philosophy and the act of civil disobedience initiated by Gandhi as an anarchistic means of change.
Rattapallax Films New York & Clark House Initiative Mumbai, India
Film screening & discussion at Alliance Française 7 May, 2012
Opening: 27 April, 2012
Clark House Initiative
8 Nathalal Parekh Marg, Bombay
Admission free