deaf (2011) – Serge Baghdassarians / Boris Baltschun

installation
modified pitch tuners, cable, 35 × 12 × 5 cm, 2′
Baghdassarians und Baltschun

Serge Baghdassarians

* 1972 in Fürth (DE), lives in Berlin (DE)

Boris Baltschun

* 1974 in Bremen (DE), lives in Berlin (DE)

deaf consists of four pitch tuners in foot-pedal form whose LED displays together spell out the notes D, E, A, and F in fluorescent letters. The tuners are linked with each other in a closed circuit and translate the temporal dimension of tuning (and temporary illumination) into an LED-track animation.

In deaf, a constellation of sounds becomes a word, reversing the old procedure of translating names into musical motifs. This occurs while alluding to an action that normally precedes music-making: the act of tuning. Via spelling out being-unable-to-hear, it highlights the relationship between visual perception and acoustic imagination.

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Sound sequence: Serge Baghdassarians / Boris Baltschun, abwicklung (2011)

Further works in the exhibition

abwicklung (unwinding) (2011)
volume (2010)