Installation
Performance
Concert
November 26, 2021
November 28, 2021

Accumulations

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Photo: Franzi Zimmer

Accumulation of sound in a room.
Accumulation of experience over time.

Accumulations is an evening of sound that blurs the line between a concert and a sound installation by Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir, Eva Pfitzenmaier and Owen Weaver.

'Cumulus' by Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir a gathering of sound emitted from a singular source, capturing the sonorities and distilling, magnifying, combining and dissipating them over time. It is a small scale interactive performance installation. Performed in a concert-like setting by Owen Weaver, with the possibility of continuing on as an installation, it plays back the performance as a sculpture fixed in space.

As a performer elicits sound from a source in a repetitive, intuitive way, the sound is picked up, interacts with software, and is then sent back through exciters connected to drum membranes. As sound fills the space through the membranes, the reverberations from the space form sonorities that feed back into the exciters – creating an accumulation of the natural frequencies which sound out with the original sound events.

Eva Pfitzenmaier performs her piece 'Villgeiter, plastikk, fuglestøy & enveistrafikk', composed during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. The absence of human activity caused nature to reassert itself in many places. Birdsong in Paris, wild goats in Wales and clear waters in Venice were some of the phenomena that occurred when humans were shut indoors during the spring of 2020.

This phenomenon, as well as the absence of consumption and pollution, the concepts of personal freedom versus responsibility for others, and the desire for intimacy at a distance is at the heart of several miniatures for voice, percussion, and cassette tapes in Pfitzenmaier's performance.

With support from Bergen City Council, Vestland County, FFUK and BIT20 Ensemble.