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Type: Performance Video Interactive

Topic: contemporary

Keywords: choir hydraulic jacks tilting platforms a cappella movement sound breath gravity interactive installation robotic allegory

Materials: 9 A Cappella voices, 18 hydraulic jacks, tilting platforms, sound synthesis device

Country: Switzerland (based on artist's website and exhibition locations)

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pendulum-choir

Artist: Michel Décosterd and André Décosterd

Year: 2010

Pendulum Choir is an original choral piece for 9 A Cappella voices and 18 hydraulic jacks. The choir stands on tilting platforms, constituting a living, sonorous body that expresses itself through various physical states. The bodies of the singers and their voices play with and against gravity, creating subtle vocal polyphonies or breaking into lyrical flight or a dark ritual. The work combines technological complexity and the lyricism of moving bodies. The piece explores the breath as a... (full text available in original project page)

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