The Goldberg variation (Bach clock)
Sammanfattning
The Goldberg variation (Bach clock) is based on Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg variations. But whereas Bach’s version takes around 30 minutes to play from beginning to end, this version is stretched to 12 hours and 25 minutes. Each note in the original score is struck at even intervals, every two seconds. The rythm is evened out, the dynamics are flattened: every sense of musical direction is gone. What remains is a solemn enumeration of all the tones that make up the original piece – a kind of clockwork.
Beskrivning av projektet
Artist Jesper Norda + rojal förlag (Olle Essvik, Joel Nordqvist)
Book + usb [sound files] 300 * 210 mm, [20+4 AP] [468 pages]
The Goldberg variation (Bach clock) is based on Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg variations. But whereas Bach’s version takes around 30 minutes to play from beginning to end, this version is stretched to 12 hours and 25 minutes. Each note in the original score is struck at even intervals, every two seconds. The rythm is evened out, the dynamics are flattened: every sense of musical direction is gone. What remains is a solemn enumeration of all the tones that make up the original piece – a kind of clockwork.
Typ av arbete
Book
Offentliggjord i
Book + book release Gothenburg Art Museum, bookstore.
Datum
2017-01-15Upphovsman
Norda, Jesper
Essvik, Olle
Nyckelord
PUBLICATION
book
Goldberg variation
Publikationstyp
artistic work
Språk
eng