performance – 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.

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

Turn Off The Moon

Soso

Angel Of Mine

Please order by mail to carolinesiegers@me.com.

UNUSUAL THOUGHTS (2017)

Unusual thoughts features the side effects of valium, a fascinating piece of everyday text.

Voice: Anna Holmes
Beats: Toby Deschamps
Composition/arrangement/montage: Caroline Siegers

CLOSEUP WEBERN (2018)

INTRINSIC LOOPS #2, Barenboim-Said-Akademie uses this Webern 12 tone row

as a playground for active and passive improvisation.

Barenboim-Said-Akademie, 20.Mai 2018, ©Philipp von Recklinghausen

Keine Fotobeschreibung verfügbar. — Closeup Webern

TRIPLETTE (2015)

The triplet was designed as a motor driven punchcard DJ set in collaboration with Milan Siegers. The purpose is to play several punchcards at the same time, loop them and have hands free for other instruments. It premiered at the occasion of Büchner’s Leonce und Lena, Theater Koblenz, directed by Matthias Schönfeldt.

PINK ELEKTRON (2014)

The original Pink Elektron project is a mission to outer space started by Susanne Paul and me in 2014. We unpacked all our guitar effects, played our string instruments into loop stations, and added some distorted music box phrases and weird samples – while traveling to the remotest places of the universe.

Laika’s Lullaby

Behind the Moon

SONAR KOLLEKTIV ORCHESTER (2007)

I had the pleasure of playing violin in the legendary SONAR KOLLEKTIV ORCHESTER. The concept was to present electronic music with an acoustic big band. Apart from performing in Berlin, the orchestra traveled to Warsaw, Milano and Hamburg and recorded a wonderful CD, featuring artists like Clara Hill, Jazzanova, Thief and Meitz.