One Day I Will Find The Right Words

The video explores the possibilities of breaking free from the fixed and pre-rehearsed music, lyrics and visuals, opening up unpredictable, ever-changing intermedia spaces, with no option left but to react/create on the spot, with a gesture, movement, sound, spoken/sung word(s) etc. The only pre-assigned “parameter“ in the “performance“ was my own mood at that particular moment, which dictated the course of the creation/reaction.

In this piece, I explored the use of the sound mixer as an instrument for performing and composing music in real time. The sonic/music component was thus performed/recorded live on the mixer, consisting of 4 pre-recorded audio tracks (fixed media), and live input from an electromagnetic field microphone (non-fixed media).
The spoken text used for composing the 4 fixed-media audio tracks was “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple“, a quote from Jack Kerouac's novel The Dharma Bums, (pre-)molded using different audio effects.
Using the mixer and audio effects allowed me to go directly into each track and mold it as a sculptor would a piece of clay. As a result, the tracks would sound different with each new “performance“, both individually and in conjunction with each other, with virtually no way of predicting what the entire piece will sound like.