shut up and listen! 2011
Interdisciplinary Festival for Music and Sound Art
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Wysozky (FR/AT/CZ)
Musical Banks - Electro-acoustic composition, in collaboration with Arden Day
Musical Banks
Music for prepared piano, electronic bow & computer (ft. tape sample by Luc Ferrari), recitative from
Samuel Butler’s novel EREWHON.
Composed and arranged by Wysozky, piano and voice by Arden Day
We started this piece by devising an analogy between what appears to us to be two opposite ways of
confiscating time: music and money. Our attention was drawn towards a sample – or acoustic snapshot -
from the French composer Luc Ferrari that he identified as money machine and within this disruptive
process came the necessity to link the dystopia Erewhon written by Samuel Butler in the late 19th century.
We focused on the controversial chapter named Musical Banks - after which we titled our piece – where
Butler describes how money or currencies are reminders of our bygone relationship with gods, as an
anthropologist would do ; money is not only a commodity void of sacredness – if not a straightforward
profanation - but a paradoxical artefact whose sole purpose is to minimalise emotions within human
interactions. If this were the case then one could consider music as a social act to be the strict opposite of
money which is chiefly as an antisocial commodity.
(Wysozky & Arden Day)
Wysozky & Arden Day are currently collaborating in Paris. The piece Musical Banks has been broadcasted on
the Klangkunst slot of the Deutschlandradio Kultur.
Wysozky
Wysozky lives in Paris and Vienna and writes electro-acoustic pieces based on sonic microstructures and
subtle atmospherics. In his live work he collaborates with musicians and sound artists, and explores fields of
symbiosis of computers and acoustic and electric instruments. Visuals are a crucial component of his live
performances. As a composer and live performer, he cooperates with modern dancers and theatre artists in
his search for junction points of modes of human expression. Wysozky’s music is a universe, naïve and rich in
contrast, seen through the eyes of a child. It is a world, gentle and cruel, inhabited by lovers and mourners,
resounding with eerie melodies and roar of machines.
http://www.wysozky.com/
ABOUT PROGRAMME SUAL AWARD PRESS IMPRESSUM SUAL HOME
SHUT UP AND LISTEN! AWARD 2011
Wysozky (FR/AT/CZ)
Musical Banks - Electro-acoustic composition, in collaboration with Arden Day
Musical Banks
Music for prepared piano, electronic bow & computer (ft. tape sample by Luc Ferrari), recitative from
Samuel Butler’s novel EREWHON.
Composed and arranged by Wysozky, piano and voice by Arden Day
We started this piece by devising an analogy between what appears to us to be two opposite ways of
confiscating time: music and money. Our attention was drawn towards a sample – or acoustic snapshot -
from the French composer Luc Ferrari that he identified as money machine and within this disruptive
process came the necessity to link the dystopia Erewhon written by Samuel Butler in the late 19th century.
We focused on the controversial chapter named Musical Banks - after which we titled our piece – where
Butler describes how money or currencies are reminders of our bygone relationship with gods, as an
anthropologist would do ; money is not only a commodity void of sacredness – if not a straightforward
profanation - but a paradoxical artefact whose sole purpose is to minimalise emotions within human
interactions. If this were the case then one could consider music as a social act to be the strict opposite of
money which is chiefly as an antisocial commodity.
(Wysozky & Arden Day)
Wysozky & Arden Day are currently collaborating in Paris. The piece Musical Banks has been broadcasted on
the Klangkunst slot of the Deutschlandradio Kultur.
Wysozky
Wysozky lives in Paris and Vienna and writes electro-acoustic pieces based on sonic microstructures and
subtle atmospherics. In his live work he collaborates with musicians and sound artists, and explores fields of
symbiosis of computers and acoustic and electric instruments. Visuals are a crucial component of his live
performances. As a composer and live performer, he cooperates with modern dancers and theatre artists in
his search for junction points of modes of human expression. Wysozky’s music is a universe, naïve and rich in
contrast, seen through the eyes of a child. It is a world, gentle and cruel, inhabited by lovers and mourners,
resounding with eerie melodies and roar of machines.
http://www.wysozky.com/