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pájaro suelto
pájaro suelto
'ohrenhoch -the Noise Shop' presents on Sunday 14 and 21 June 2015, 2pm - 9pm:
pájaro suelto
Sound installation
Bird cages, feathers, steel strings, guitar tuning pegs, dc motors and piezos
(2015, Premiere)
by Rubén D'Hers
Rubén D'Hers on 'pájaro suelto':
Inside two bird cages there is one small motor strumming steel strings that are stretched inside the cage. Different recordings of birds living inside a cage define the way the motor spins, making the feather attached to the motor to touch the strings slightly. The tuning pegs allow to tune the cage. So, when the birds are singing a chord / tuning emerges.
(notes about the cages while making the work)
the tuning |opens| or enclose what is inside the cage
|release|
but i don't know exactly what is inside the cage...
To tune in order to open and close
to expand and compress
to release and catch something
the cage is not blocking anymore
now, it becomes the resonating body of a “slight signal” *
* Levedad de una señal (Levity of a signal). Installation with found objects Ana Alenso.
Audio Field Report no. 32 / Sound activism 11: Interview with Rubén D'Hers by Knut Remond. Limited Edition Audio cassette, 8 copies numbered. Available at 'ohrenhoch - the Noise Shop' (and can be heard there on headphone no.1).
Rubén D’Hers is a guitarist and sound artist from Caracas, Venezuela currently living in Berlin. His focus on sound installation and playing techniques deals with the use of chords as autonomous sound spaces. He studied fine arts in Caracas at the Cristobal Rojas Art School and later electroacoustic composition with Robin Minard at the Bauhaus University Weimar.
In Caracas, from 1999 to 2007 he was co-founder and guitarist of the jazz-rock band kRé. Since then he works on his solo project which highlights the use of strings instruments as the main medium of experimentation. His works has been exhibited and performed at venues like ZKM in Karlsruhe (DE), Neues Museum Weimar (DE), Pure Data Convention (DE), SeaM Weimar (DE), LAB 30 Klangkunst Experimente Augsburg (DE), Heart of Noise Festival Innsbruck (AU), Netwerk Center (BE), Mochvara Gallery (HR) and at Oficina #1 Gallery in Caracas (VE).
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