Ice record

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Sketch for performance with ice records, Claudia Märzendorfer

An ice record or record made of ice is a sound carrier made of ice , similar to a normal record that is played on a record player . The acoustic and visual perceptibility changes during the playing time due to the melting process .

origin

The Eisschallplatte is an artistic creation by the sculptor Claudia Märzendorfer and the sound artist Nik Hummer . Work on the development of the ice record began in 1999. The world premiere took place on June 8, 2005 in the Kunsthalle Wien under the title "Much Ado About Nothing" as part of the concert program of the exhibition "Lives and works in Vienna 2." The concert program was curated by Hans Groiss for the Music Information Center Austria .

Ice records by Nik Hummer and Claudia Märzendorfer have been presented since 2004 as a concert performance, on artistic photographs, in film documentations, videos, on photos and drawings under the following titles: "Frozen Records", "Frozen Records Edition", "Much Ado About Nothing" , "Frozen Archive".

This resulted in two limited art editions: a book portfolio with photographs, drawings and a CD, as well as a flight case with a kit for an ice record. Subsequently, a CD edition and a shellac record with recordings of ice records were created (2006).

Emergence

The Viennese sculptor Claudia Märzendorfer has been developing molds for ice sculptures since 1996. While she was still studying sculpture, she showed her first work made from frozen water under the title "Cold Wash" (Semper-Depot, Vienna 1999). During this sculptural performance, items of laundry modeled from clay were poured into silicone molds . These molds were then filled with water and the contents frozen.

In the following years Claudia Märzendorfer published a number of autobiographical works, including the ice works "Perfect Disappearance", "House and when he threw the knife into the sun" and "Ice records". The recurring moment in her sculptural work is the process of change and a temporal component that is an essential factor in the work. A typical feature of Claudia Märzendorfer's artistic work is the fragility of the object.

From 1999 she developed several sound performances , films and installations with ice cast works together with Nik Humme . At that time, Nik Hummer was a member of the electro-acoustic formation thilges3, which staged a series of performances and actions in urban space. The first Eisschallplatte featured a composition for Trautonium that thilges3 recorded for the setting of a play by Samuel Beckett .

The direct predecessor of Eisschallplatten, a cooperation between thilges3 and Claudia Märzendorfer under the title "Much Ado About Nothing", was "perfect disappearance" (Vienna 2000). A film and the mini CD “rosner” from thilges3 were also produced for this purpose.

Performances with ice records

After numerous appearances with ice records, Claudia Märzendorfer developed the work "Frozen Archive" between 2005 and 2007, in which she envisaged the steadily growing archive of recordings and audio donations as a large installation for the 2007 Vienna Secession . At the same time, numerous works were made from frozen water in the years that followed.

The biggest performance to date with records made of ice was created for the Vienna Mozart Year 2006 with over 2500 ice records (including covers and sleeves ), which were played on four turntables by Nik Hummer and Claudia Märzendorfer. For this performance 25 Viennese musicians were commissioned to write a 10-minute composition for ice record. Between 2005 and 2007 the two artists presented around 5000 ice records to the public. The process of making it was public from the start. In 2006, in cooperation with Bill Drummond, the KLF production Chill Out was poured into ice.

Performances

  • VLUN [= Much Ado About Nothing], Kunsthalle, Vienna, 2005, curated by Hans Groiss
  • VLUN, Garage Festival, Stralsund, 2005, curated by Carsten Stabenow and Gesine Pagels
  • VLUN, Stop Spot Festival, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, 2005
  • VLUN, Fresh Trips Festival, Kunstraum, Innsbruck, 2005
  • Frozen Records, Tesla, Berlin, 2006, curated by Carsten Seiffarth
  • Frozen Records, Wellengrad Festival, Radio Orange, Vienna, 2006, in cooperation with Bill Drummond
  • VLUN, Modernist Mozart Festival, Vienna, 2006
  • Frozen Records 2, Tesla Open Studio, Berlin, 2006, curated by Carsten Seiffarth
  • Frozen Records, Todaysartfestival, The Hague, 2007, curated by Remco Schurbiers
  • I love God, Minoriten, Graz, 2012, curated by Zenita Komad

Female composers (selection)

Exhibitions

  • Galerie Strickner, Vienna, 2009
  • Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, 2007

literature

Impact history

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  • Shout out loud,
  • Katie Patterson,
  • Lyota Yagi,
  • Ivan Abreu,
  • Optimal: media,
  • Ulrike Mohr,
  • Blenno sausage bridge

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