November 12, 2020, 10 am – 2 pm
Many thanks to the artist & composer William Engelen for his lecture Notation and Sound and discussing the works of our participants within the Studio Program at BAI | Berlin Artist Residency, Art School, Arts Incubator, and Live Online Courses & Classes.
“In my lecture I will talk about my praxis as visual artist and composer. I will show examples of exhibitions, performances, and different forms of notation. I will talk about site specific composition, and their variable relationships between space, time, image and sound.” (Text by courtesy of William Engelen)
William Engelen is a visual artist and composer, born in the Netherlands, living and working in Berlin. His work traverses the spectrum between visual arts and music, poaching strategies from each field to test the boundaries between image and sound. The output includes installations, performances, videos, musical scores and even models.
His compositions are written by visually responding to a given locale—whether it be a museum, a church, a construction site, or the artist’s own belly—and then finding a method of acoustic translation. The final work might return to its site of origin or be transferred to yet other spaces such as parks, city squares, silos, museums, or programmed into mobile phones. His musical scores are not written using traditional notation, but with drawing techniques that in turn form their own musical logic. As a performance, they are a collaborative negotiation of the different variables set up by the artist. Though they are bounded by rules, they are irreproducible.
More information on the William Engelen Website.
