Message is a choreographed music performance with four drummers slowly walking through the
slowly through the six rows of the audience and is preferably performed in a public
in a public square or in an urban backyard. The
The clashing of the various cymbals during the performance can be heard
initially from the four corners of the room and gradually these sounds travel along the
through the audience along predetermined paths. Each individual visitor is given
cymbals is held directly to the ear of each individual visitor, creating an unexpected
spectral sound inside the body. After this central event
of the performance, the cymbal sounds move away and mingle again with the
with the others. The changing perspectives of the spatial perception of these
of these abstract musical signs make visitors think of a constantly
changing mobile. Some of the audience follow the action from outside the
the rows of chairs, but without being able to directly experience the kaleidoscope of cymbal sounds on their own
ears directly.
automatically translated from german
place: Kunsthof Zürich 1994, Tinguely Museum Basel 2002, Stromereien Zürich 2011, u.v.a.
Dokumentationstyp: Dokumentation einer Performance/Aktion / Documentation of a performance/action