pasdedeuX—reduX, 2023
performative sound installation for 16 turntables, 2 performers, and discarded media
Two performers enter a turntable field.
Slowly, they begin to play vinyl records and operate the 16 turntables.They move and communicate quietly, listening to each other through the turntable field, watching each other’s actions. They pause, move again, and react ‘musically.’
The turntables, each playing an eight-minute sound or voice composition, transform into instruments—playing solos, forming groups of musicians, or sounding like an orchestra that simultaneously animates the performers’ movements within the field. Gestural space-sound constellations emerge.The performers communicate live, referencing and playing back their own voices from the vinyl records: a dialogue may arise between recorded voices as well as among micro-looped, scattered, and spatialised sounds. Every switch, every movement recombine fragments of sound, voice, and memory, continuously rewriting the narrative.
From the very beginning of the performance, the audience becomes an observer of a laboratory that remains unaware of its observation.
Performance & Voice: Verena Lercher & Mikolaj Szatko
Sound Archive: Gerriet Krishna Sharma
Premiere: Sound Chamber Funkhaus Berlin, 2025
