UR KINDERSZENEN (NO. 13) AV ROBERT SCHUMANN
Galleri Konstepidemin, Göteborg 2014

sound and video installation: two channel video with two channel stereo sound, sheet of glass with surface transducers, loudspeakers
images: collage/ink on transparent paper

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Excerpt from exhibition text by Johanna Willenfelt:
A large sheet of glass is central in the double sense in Jesper Nordas exhibition From Kinderzsenen (No 13) by Robert Schumann at Gallery Konstepidemin in Gothenburg. The sheet hangs from wires in the middle of the room and is the first object the visitor meet when she enters the exhibition. The glass acts as a speaker membrane for the piece of music that gives the show its name. [...]
Through the transparent disc there is a clear view into the next room where the viewer get a glimpse of o video projection. Two films are screened in here, with the projection surfaces placed at right angles to each other. The same course of events are portrayed in both scenes, but from two different perspectives. The first film is a recording of the pianist's hands gesticulating as they hit the keys to Der Dichter Spricht. The second film uncovers the instrument internals, or, in other words, the mechanics of the piano. The two projections are in sync, but the audio that accompanies the films is still not the melody of which >the poet speaks< but what we hear is the sound that the piano gives off before the oscillations from the strings has reached a human ear. [...]

Download complete exhibition folder (pdf, swedish only)

Review Göteborgsposten 2014-03-15

Still image documentation by Hendrik Zeitler.

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No. 13: Der dichter spricht (ur Kinderszenen) av Robert Schumann
1 harmonics, 2 rythm, 3 articulation, 4 body.

Ink on transparent paper mounted on vintage music paper, 35X43 cm (framed).