Bloomsbury Video Library - Visionaries 21 : The Music Machines by Bosch & Simons, 1989-2012
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{"identifier":"BOS-Music_6311369023112","browse_author":"Peter Bosch (Artist), Simone Simons (Artist) and Bosch and Simons (Proprietor (Publisher Bloomsbury Video))","subscription_list":["bvl_visartssch"],"titleByTitle":"Yes","isbn":9781350910799,"description":"This set is a unique compilation of the works conceived and created by Peter Bosh and Simone Simons between 1989 \u20132012. Inspired by the physicist Nikola Tesla's legendary experiments in 1896, Bosch & Simons have produced a large series of works based on vibration and resonance. They created installations in museums, at International Symposiums on Electronic Art, concert halls and international electronic music conferences around the world. They turn their extensive artistic research into complex, unpredictable systems and unstable balances, into pieces which are part physics experiments and part new-media installations. \u201cAlongside unstable balances and order and chaos, another element is sound. The pure power of sound and the pure existence of sound (music) manifest remains an integral part of the installations we create. The medium sound gives power over a specific place, it occupies that space: Our vibratory projects permit us to generate vibrations with which we can fill the space. Sound waves are after all vibrations!\u201d (Bosch & Simons) While working on the theme \u201cResonances stimulated by mechanical vibrations\u201d their main interest was not to amplify just one existing frequency, but to create a complex system in which various frequencies influence each other. This to give rise to unstable balances, which the slightest change could disturb, enough to produce an unpredictable outcome. As in the Electric Swaying Orchestra (1991-92) forced and natural frequencies of objects, then pendulums now sprung constructions, are so attuned to each other that the movements and sounds created by the installations can change almost imperceptibly from order into chaos and vice versa. Part 1 1. Interview at Ars Electronica, Linz, 1998 2. Was der Wind zum Klingen bringt, ZKM, Karlsruhe, 1991 3. Electric Saying Orchestra, Arté 91, University of Twente, Enschede, 1991 4. Trajectversterker, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, 1993 / Vooruitgang, Tilburg, 1994 5. Krachtgever, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1995 6. A Castle for Kobe, Universidad Politécnica, Valencia, 1999 7. Cantan un Huevo, Metrònom, Barcelona, 2001 8. Aguas Vivas, various places, 2002-2007 9. Último Esfuerzo Rural II, Stenersen Museum, Oslo 2004 / Metrònom, Barcelona, 2005 10. Springtime in a Small Town, KLANKENBOS, Neerpelt, 2006 11. Último Esfuerzo Rural I, Re:New, Huset i Magstraede, Copenhagen, 2008 (48 mins) Part 2 1. Retrospective Bosch & Simons, Espace Pommier, La Tour du PIn, 2009 2. Aguas Vivas, Metronom, Barcelona, 2004 3. Bang Spring Time, Forja Arte Contemporáneo, Valencia, 2009 4. Chutes Libres du Printemps, Gare de St Sauveur, Lille, 2010 5. Bang Spring Time, Transitio, Fonoteca Nacional, Mexico DF, 2011 6. Mirlitones, Kunst Werkt, Dordtyart, Dordrecht, 2012 7. Wilberforces, Winter Sparks, FACT, Liverpool, 2012 (34:40 mins) Peter Bosch (1958) studied psychology at the Universities of Leiden and Amsterdam (1976-\u201883) and thereafter studied sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (1986-\u201887). Simone Simons (1961) studied at the audiovisual department of the Gerrit Rietveld Art Academy in Amsterdam (1980-\u201885). Since 1997 they work and live in Valencia, Spain. Bosch and Simons have been collaborating since 1985. Beginning with performances, concerts and theatre productions, since 1990, they have focused in particular on the development of autonomous \"music machines\". All their machines are dynamic: sound and movement are in constant development. 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