Musical composition, audio, Digital graphic series, digital-print, 2015/16 ongoing
The Mortality project is a musical composition based on mortality rates. Twenty-three different mortality rates are used as the basis for the composition. A metronome was generated from each mortality rate. In the form of global mortality, this results in a rhythm with an interval length of 0.562 seconds.
By superimposing the 23 metronomes, a chaotic pattern of rhythms evokes the sound of a geiger counter.
https://soundcloud.com/fddoh/sample
In my discussion with the sound scheme, it is my interest to produce an audible breakdown of the 23 overlapping metronomes. The condition was both the preservation of all occurring signals as well as a musical access to the topic and the origin of the intervals. The base for this is laid by a marching drum as known from processions or parades. This makes it possible to use all signals as part of the drum vortex without exception. The basic mood of the piece moves between resistance and acceptance. The rhythmic misalignment of all soundtracks is constantly pressing on and still acts as a harmony-enhancing constant.
https://soundcloud.com/fddoh/mortality-1
Based on the image of the composition oscillation, a digital graphics series has emerged. The minimalistic structure of the individual graphics takes up the aspects of the music piece in their static appearance and simultaneous tornness, translating it into a visual form.
My thought is not founded on the fear of one’s own transience, but rather on the awe of our lives. The cycle of life appears monstrous and is hardly imaginable for the individual. Therefore I selected the 23 mortality rates witch are of cause based on my approach to generate a rhythmic pattern that should be seen as an excerpt of the inconceivable mass of individual fates. Nevertheless, we try to give a tangible figure with statistical surveys of the multitude of events, but only the abstraction remains for something we want to understand as a whole. At this point I want to investigate the interaction between our rational and emotional perception. Can emotions function as a tool, to gain access to rational thoughts without being stopped by their incomprehensible figure (The inconceivably of individual transience or even more abstracted in mortality rates.)?
