The Anatomy of Wire Music
A performance by Alastair Galbraith and Matt De Genarro
Produced by The Society for Old and New Media (De Waag),
and r a d i o q u a l i a
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the anatomy of wire music
[ - society for old and new media, de waag, amsterdam, netherlands -
]
a collaborative performance by:
+ alastair galbraith
musician and artist, from dunedin new zealand
+ matt de gennaro
musician and student of art and acoustics, from the usa
the theatrum anatomicum at de waag in amsterdam will be explored aurally
through a special performance, produced especially for the net. alastair
galbraith and matt de gennaro will find the resonant harmonics of the
waag building itself using long tension wires. this manifestation of
'wire music' is a the latest in a series of sound performances which make
audible the resonances of architectural locations, by stringing piano
wires up and playing them with rosined hands.
de gennaro first played wire music during the 1990's as a private
indulgence in his attic art studio. a personal friendship with galbraith
blossomed into
collaboration when they played a wire music concert in 1998 at the
'chip
shop', a music venue that had previously been a fish 'n' chips joint.
their rehearsal and concert became their first CD, 'wire music'
<http://noise.as/hermescorp/Wire.html>,
released by corpus hermeticum.
in july 1999, the duo took their music around new zealand, playing at the
major public art galleries, dunedin public art gallery, city gallery in
wellington, the robert mcdougall in christchurch, and artspace in
auckland, among others. de gennaro gave a brief lecture that positioned
their work within the multimedia endeavors of artists like harry bertoia.
then they played the wires, occasionally augmented by galbraith's violin
and tape loops."
tomorrow's performamnce will be the first time wire music has been
presented live online.
'de waag' was built in 1488 as a citygate and is the oldest secular
building of amsterdam. in the centuries that followed, the building
served successively as a weighouse, guildhall, fire station, municipal
archives and museum for jewish history. the various guilds that were
housed in the building left behind clear traces of their occupation. in
1691 the guild of chirurgeons added an octagonal domed tower. because of
the similarities with a roman amphitheatre, this new area, the anatomy
room was called the Theatrum Anatomicum. it was here, in this theatre
that the first northern european public dissections took place. rembrandt
was a regular visitor and immortalised the practice of anatomy in his
painting 'the anatomy lesson of dr. tulp'.
today de waag is home to the media lab and presentation space of the
society for old and new media.
to experience this live stream of audio and video, you'll need access to
a computer with a sound card, a connection to the internet (at least
56K), and the real player installed. this can be downloaded for free at
the real networks website:
<http://www.real.com/player/index.html>.
______ feedback
if you want to comment on the stream, or give any feedback to the
artists, email
<radioqualia@va.com.au>.