50 Hertz is a drone music performance played with a ceramic set and neon tubes amplified with effects. Ceramics are wet instruments that produce infra-low frequencies sprinkled by electrical abrasions. They define an obscur sound and visual atmosphere.

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The installation is entirely analog and reacts to the human body’s conductivity. The performance is a succession of contacts and body movements around the ceramics. 

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The insulating and conductive properties of glazes and clays used for the shaping of the instruments give a raw sound. This material is modeled by the gestures of the artist who composes an original sound piece.

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Thus, the choice of the ceramic ensemble allows
to obtain each time a new scenic configuration, since each ceramic piece possesses its own sounds and gestures repertoire.

 

The ceramics were produced during the CERCCO residency 2019 - 2020 – the Experimentation and Research Centre for Contemporary Ceramics of the Geneva University of Art and Design.

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50 Hertz has also been selected to be developed during the Fondation l’Abri residency 2020 - 2021.

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