Photo: copyright by Antonio Ria
Jörg Burkhard
graffito sonore, Venezia poesia '97
miniature equipment from GELD general electric language districts. with
a pencil which is filled with electrodes the performer will be
writing/drawing/scribbling on a wet thin board. zapping tapes with
thousands and thousands of cuts, crap from the TV in all registers
conceivable, so that the own voice/text is going to fade away in the
panorama between the loudspeakers.
to mix further tapes simultaneously an optical mixer (optocouplers) will
be controlled via a headset microfone. by moving the fingers on the wet
'keyboard' the own voice, electromagnetic fields from the motors of the
walkpersons, radio headphones (noise) or the fifty hertz humming etc.
will be transmitted to open circuits whereby a defective walkperson will
be serving as a scratcher.
the instructions for the performance are quite structured. but playing
the tapes, the outcome is beyond the performer's control. you may call
it tronic poetry.
Further information about the work of Jörg Burkhard on the website of
Peter Engstler Publishing House.
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