13:06
A Fusion of 5 Metres of White Paper, Embroidery Scissors, Light Mapping and Shostakovich’s 1st Piano Trio Opus 8 in C Minor
100 years after the tuberculosis-stricken and tempestuously in love Dmitri Shostakovich composed his landmark 1st Piano Trio Opus 8 in C minor, the Museum for Papirkunst presents the work 13:06.
For many, Dmitri Shostakovich’s 1st Piano Trio Opus 8 in C minor, for violin, cello and piano, can be experienced as a work that both captivates and allures our ears with its sound and harmonies. With the work 13:06, the audience is invited to experience Shostakovich’s 1st Piano Trio with both eyes and ears for exactly 13 minutes and 6 seconds. The work was also created out of a desire to give deaf and hard-of-hearing people the opportunity for a special musical experience, where the artwork and the trio are intertwined in one experience.
The audience will experience psaligraph Bit Vejle’s five-metre long paper frieze, created as a visualisation of Shostakovich’s piano trio from the first to the last note, with Dark Matter’s animations directly on the artwork accompanied by the Norwegian Grieg Trio’s recording of Shostakovich’s composition.
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“I listened to the music for 3 months, studied the score and read everything I could get my hands on about Shostakovich. I cut the piece as a 5-metre-long frieze where you can follow the themes of the music from the first to the last note, and where the pulse of the music is illustrated with a continuous network of wave and ellipse shapes. During the editing process, it occurred to me that if it were possible to animate the clip according to the time codes of the Grieg Trio recording, then the music, both sonically and temporally, would materialise in the present moment, directly in the psaligraphic work.”
— Bit Vejle about the work 13:06
