TIMEMONOCHROMES IN DIALOGUE WITH MORTON FELDMAN

As part of the project Timemonochromes, Silvia Marazzi and Guy Vandromme get in close collaboration with the early solo piano works of Morton Feldman (1926-1987) in order to organize a musical living intervention that will be based on the concept of a pop up living sounding installation.
Based on architectural spaces that will become sonoric environments, they will each time set up a temporally installation that will allow to use the space as a sonoric eco-system that is reflecting the outside reality identity of the geographical location.
In this creative exploration Timemonochromes, the movement is truly aimed at meeting the intimate encounter with the substance of sound. Morton Feldman's early piano pieces, have a poetical and painterly qualities. They are absolutely transparent and completely devoid of vanity. Predominantly slow and very quiet, they are also rich, subtle and elegant. Using the same principal of Feldman’s composition, the choreography is unpredictable and circular.
The performance, conceived as a product of a physical-sensitive space that the dancer  and the musician inhabit, is a totally abstract sonic and kinetic adventure.
In this dialogue between movement and sound, dynamics are independent and there is rhythmic freedom within the confines of the box that allows for little more than occasional displacement. The movement and the sound independent but eventually connected, they speak for themselves and articulate the silences.
Working on the silence, the lack, the emptiness as synonymous of infinite wealth of possibilities, openness and freedom.
Void, therefore, is conceived not as a simple denial of the full, but as an existing entity itself. It is not therefore an absolute value, but rather a dynamic and a method that invalidates prejudices to create a void in which everything is shown in its truth.The execution of artistic forms needs a great meditation concentration in order to reach the vacuum state. In this context, empty space should not be filled but enjoyed. In a same way Art does not look for the aesthetic purpose, but the act itself enriches the relationship. Relationship with people, relationship with nature, with objects.
The intuition of void is astonishing, discovering that it exists everywhere and that reality is basically one of possible manifestation of its endless possibilities completely changes the reference points of view.



A project by Guy Vandromme and Silvia Marazzi
Video by Giada D'Addazio
Photo by Timothé Fillon