In Neon Meditations by Per Hess and Risto Holopainen sensors and colour filters are used to transform colours and denominations into a sound image. This happens in the same way as when the eye registers colours and denominations, transmitting signals to the brain.
The sound does not illustrate – but is directly related to the colours and denominations that are read. Even the smallest movement of the sensors provides changed reading and changed sound, a very sensitive system where no readings can be repeated without any deviations.
The sound image gets an organic course, not a mechanical one, and each feed is unique.
Colours can be seen as energy processes where matter both retains and reflects energy, and tells us something fundamental about our reality. But what can sound tell us in this context?
Sound expands our sensory presence and enhances our spatial experience. Soundspace and colourspace meet. The publication 'Neonmeditationer i teori och praktik' is launched at the opening, and for sale in Lydgalleriet's listening library.
Neon Meditations is curated by Julie Lillelien Porter and realised with support from Arts Council Norway, the Norwegian Composers' Association, NOTAM and the Norwegian Visual Arts Remuneration Fund.