Of Sound in the Landing Page

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REEVE, Hester (2015). Of Sound in the Landing Page. [Performance]

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Documentation photograph by Christoph Hochenbichler

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Sculptural object housing visual foley score

Creators:	REEVE, Hester
Abstract:	'Of Sound in the Landing Page' was commissioned as part of the festival ‘Philosophy on Stage 4 –The Artist-Philosopher’ at Tanzquartier, Vienna. This was the culmination of a series of workshops where philosophers and artists came together to explore Nietzsche’s notion of the artist-philosopher. Artists work with and think through ‘matter’ – something Nietzsche was sympathetic to even though he, like all philosophers, created almost exclusively through words. To challenge this, 'Of Sound in the Landing Page' re-articulated 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' as a soundscape, liberating the physical forces described by Nietzsche to convey his ideas and honouring his conviction that music is the highest form of philosophy. I produced a ‘foley’ score and conducted two professors of philosophy in using their hands and everyday objects to simulate the sounds thus conflating philosophy, action and matter. Collaborating on the work were the trumpeter Franz Hautzinger who developed and performed sounds to convey all animal life in the pages of ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’ and electronic composer Wolfgang Mitterer who created a spatial sound to evoke all references to the spinning wheel of the eternal return.
Official URL:	http://homepage.univie.ac.at/arno.boehler/php/?p=9...
Item Type:	Performance
Additional Information:	My performance was part of a large international project, 'Peek Artist-philosophers/philosophy as arts-based research,' lead by Arno Böhler, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Vienna
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018:	Cultural Communication and Computing Research Institute > Communication and Computing Research Centre
Date:	28 November 2015
Funders:	Austrian Science Fund
Related URLs:	http://www.tqw.at/en/events/scores10-phi...
Event Location:	Halle G, Tanzquartier, Vienna
ID Code:	14593
Deposited By:	Hester Reeve
Deposited On:	25 Apr 2017 13:41
Last Modified:	18 Mar 2021 17:45

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