Humming, 2021.
8-channel sound composition, 48 prints on paper, 6 ink and colour pen drawings on paper, draft paper, and film.
“What happens to the fleeting sounds of slogans chanted on the streets? Humming is a sound work that draws on six chants from Thailand, Russia, the United States, Chile, and Hong Kong, such as ‘no justice no peace’ from the Black Lives Matter movement in America. Maridet breaks these down into syllables, which are then transformed into individual notes collectively forming 48 notes that can be arranged to recreate sonic variations — a stream of musical humming of global slogans combined. Each syllable-note has a distinctive profile of pitch, colour, and tone, and is catalogued into a chart. The six slogans are also transformed into a two-dimensional soundscape placed on music stands like score sheets, set among a cluster of figure-like speakers. Viewers walk between this crowd of ‘sounds,’ creating their own sonic encounters of broken-down notes that once shook the world. Every two hours, the soundscape swells into a performance of chants.” — Yeewan Koon, curator of So long, thanks again for the fish, Levyhalli, Suomenlinna, Helsinki.
Exhibition:
“So long, thanks for all the fish!”, 8th June – 29th August 2021, Suomenlinna, Helsinki. https://www.hiap.fi/event/so-long/
curated by Yeewan Koon
Participating artist:
Luke Ching Ching Wai / Christopher K. Ho / Lam Tung Pang / Cédric Maridet / Angela Su
Exhibition design: COLLECTIVE
Video documentation of the six different compositions and tutti version [headphone listening (binaural recording)].
Artist panel discussion:
