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Interpretation of Delphine Reist "Chorale"

by D'Incise

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"Chorale" Delphine Reist, 2014, installation.
Six vacuum cleaners, electric system (voltage dimmer)

Interpretation & peformance created by d'incise at Die Diele, Zurich, october 2018.

Audio recorded at Insub.studio, Geneva, october 2018.

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Relesased by Falt :
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Review:

The Futurists were intoxicated by the deafening roar of the age of machines, a prelude to the symphony of technological progress which by the dawn of the twentieth century announced itself as unstoppable. They wouldn’t have been equally satisfied, though, with the subsequent tendency to muffle and finally silence the “intonarumori” of everyday life, invested with the same poetic quality that in pre-modern times had been attributed to birdsongs. Instead, one that would have certainly deserved their praise is Swiss artist Delphine Reist, creator of self-propelled installations that give equal dignity to the physical object as to its ability to create sounds, also in relation to any possible “prostheses” applied to them.

Thus came to be this improbable performance conceived by Laurent “d’incise” Peter in October 2018, as part of a personal exhibition at Die Diele gallery in Zurich: Reist’s work “Chorale” from 2014 becomes here the hypothetical “chamber ensemble” in a concert for six vacuum cleaners (Proline1800, Quigg2000, Progress1600, Home2000, Panasonic1500 and Electrolux Clario) and an electric voltage dimmer. The latter, usually used in lighting systems, turns into a curious mixing board through which to regulate the power supplied to the engines of the machines, and therefore also their distinctive dull noise.

In this way, like a classical conductor, d’incise generates continuous hums, creaking motifs and other discreet counterpoints to silence, imagining the secret life of vacuum cleaners outside of their ordinary domestic use. The division into the two movements that occupy the sides of a cassette tape is not accidental, either: if the first half hour is a kind of laboratory, a timid and pensive exploration of the para-expressive properties of the vacuum cleaners, the final ten minutes represent the ascending climax of the electric “polyphony”, the gradual saturation of a drone-noise that we’ve been consciously ignoring our whole life, and which here instead becomes a concrete and dramatic presence.
The eye of the hurricane finally returns to subside as the surrounding models exchange the last sign of understanding, a mechanical rattle that takes them back to the inaction to which they are condemned for most of their days. Will you, too, recognize the cry of dignity, even the melancholy spirit, of these humble interpreters?

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D'Incise Genève, Switzerland

d'incise has no perticular instrument, using whatever can be considered as such, softwares, recordings, objects, percussions, harmonium, etc.
He's interested in radicalism, reductionnism, repetitions and conceptual approaches, building specific set-up for each new occasion, in improvised or composed context.
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