composition – Caroline Siegers

VISUAL SIGNATURES

A project by Andrei Loginov and Caroline Siegers

CONCEPT

The artist Andrei Loginov captures the ephemere in three-dimen- sional images. Talking to me about the question how music could be condensed in a picure, we developed the idea to visualise the ballistics of the violin bow.

This makes it possible to receive VISUAL SIGNATURES from past times. For this purpose, the project uses a selection of musical ex- cerpts from four centuries.

The illuminated bow is photographed using lenticular photography, the sound is recorded. In the lenticular print, a three-dimensional effect is achieved. The recorded audio can be retrieved via QR-Code, or alternatively be installed together with the image, if the surroundings allow to do so.

This way, a musical fragment is transformed into a sculpture of light and sound.

The fragments have been taken from the following works:

Lisa Batiashvili:

Johannes Brahms, Violin Concerto
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdi, Violin Concerto Karol Szymanowski, Violin Concerto No 1 Maurice Ravel, Violin Sonata
J. S, Bach Sonatas and Partitas
Gya Kancheli, Miniatures

Sara Ferrández:

Henri Vieuxtemps, Capriccio op. 55 (two excerpts)
Johann Sebastian Bach, Suite No 1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sinfonia Concertante (II. Andante)
Benjamin Britten, Suite No1 op. 72 III. Serenata

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Lisa Batiashvili playing Andante from Solo Sonata No 2 by Johann Sebastian Bach

Lisa Batiashvili playing Miniature No 9 (Dolcissimo) by Giya Kanceli

Lisa Batiashvili playing „Blues“ from Sonata No 2 by Maurice Ravel

Lisa Batiashvili playing excerpt from Violin Concerto by Felix Mendelssohn

Lisa Batiashvili playing excerpt from Violin Concerto by Johannes Brahms

Lisa Batiashvili playing excerpt from Violin Concerto by Karol Szymanowski

Sara Ferrández playing excerpt from Capriccio op. 55 by Henri Vieuxtemps (bar28)

Sara Ferrández playing excerpt from Capriccio op. 55 by Henri Vieuxtemps (ending)

Sara Ferrández playing excerpt from Prelude to Suite No 1 by Johann Sebastian Bach

Sara Ferrández playing excerpt from Sinfonia Concertante (II. Andante) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Sara Ferrández playing excerpt from Suite No1 op. 72 III. Serenata (bar 1-5)

Sara Ferrández playing excerpt from Suite No1 op. 72 III. Serenata (bar 15) by Benjamin Britten

A SENSE OF TIME

Lab concert, feat. a song by Mikis Theodorakis, ADAF Greece online 2022

In our laboratory, Stock and I are using our newly built MIDI-controllers pendulum and crank for the first time. The piece is a vivisection of Mikis Theodorakis‘ song „Tin porta anigo to vradi“, from Ta Lyrica, lyrics by Tassos Livaditis.

Since the basic idea of cranking a MIDI-Sequence is derived from the functionality of a music box, the original music box needs its place in the lab as well. And since the „triplet“, an instrument initially used in a theatre show in 2015, is still working, this punchcard dj instrument appears likewise.

Thank you Philipp for your lovely camera work.

ADVENT CALENDAR (2021)

Punchcard Records is a label for mostly punched music. In Dec. 2021 an entire advent calendar was released. Some of the short films are just as nice in summer.

BERLIN AUTOFREI PODCAST (2021/22)

Berlin autofrei feels that a city like Berlin could be lovely with a good public transport infrastructure, bicycle lanes and less cars.

Here is the podcast.

EXCALIBUR CITY (2020)

Late nineties. Two vietnamese sisters escape from Czech Republic to Germany trying to find their mother. The older one knows that there are cristals in the jacket of the younger one, to pay the human trafficker. In order to protect her younger sister, she makes up a story that the cristals are not Crystal Meth, but a substance that gives you the power of a wolf. This will have terrible consequences.

Teaser Excalibur City, courtesy of DFFB

directed by: Clara von Arnim

film score: Caroline Siegers

The film will be presented at Hofer Filmtage 2022.

MUSIK BAUEN (2020)

We developed this podcast together with Jill Hesse during the pandemic facing the challenges of home schooling. Two kids regularly came to my house to practise musical intervals.

RIVALE (2020)

Rivale is located in Ukraine/Germany, 2018. When his grandmother dies there is nobody to take care of 9 years old Roman. Hidden in a truck, he sets out for his mother in Germany. She has left two years earlier to work as a caretaker in an elderly couple’s home.

He finds his mother in a relationship with her employer. Roman is frantic with jealousy and fights for her attention.

Directed by Markus Lenz

Produced by Hanfgarn & Ufer

Music: Caroline Siegers

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TURN OFF THE MOON (2019)

TURN OFF THE MOON is an EP by Berlin-based duo St.Claire’s.
Anna Holmes: singer, songwriter, texter
Caroline Siegers: instrumentalist, songwriter, arranger