Rolling 3
Audio tape:
During a stay in Ireland, I made recordings on the smallest of the Aran-Islands of waves entering and leaving a deep grove in the rocks and dragging stones up and down with them.
Performance:
Two drummers stood on one side of the high, long space of the Leergangen building and on the other side was stereo equipment with speakers from which one could hear the sound of the tape.
The drummers sounded a drumroll.
In front of them was a small cupboard with two roses of lamps by which one could tell the volume of the sound. One row indicated the volume of the tape, the other that of the drums.
The drummers employed these givens so that they drummer harder when the sound of the sea was quiet and vice versa. Because of the jagged rocks along the coast where the sound was recorded, the beating of the waves had no constant rhythm.
It was as if the drummers were being constantly confronted both physically and mentally with this rockiness.
| year | 1986 |
| location | Tehatex art school Tilburg NL |
| performed by | Geert Koevoets and Toine Horvers |
| photography | Henk Geraedts |
| technical | Technical assistance: HAVEP Amsterdam |