Photos made in Quartair Den Haag by Ed Jansen
Koorvorming is a participatory performance. The audience is invited to sing together following a prerecorded voice, which functions as a musical score. The score is played over an array of custom made earpieces. Participants are blindfolded. One ear is used to listen to the score over the earpiece, while the other is closed with a earplug, so while singing participants are unaware of what is happening around them. Immediately after the performance every participant receives a CD with the audio recording of the performance and they can listen to it at home.
Installation-performance made possible by the support of iii
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http://ikob.be/en/programs/workshop-5-jo-caimo-korvoorming
Artikel in a German local newspaper
Koorvorming – music for the unconscious collective – is an installation that becomes a collective performance by the audience. All attendees sing while everyone holds a speaker to one ear, an earpiece in the other ear and a blindfold around the head. Through the loudspeaker you hear my voice giving you instructions to sing along. Afterwards everyone gets a CD with the recording of their voice together with the other voices. The choir can consist of up to 90 people. It is not necessary to sing in harmony or in rhythm.
Selected installation performances
- ‘Between Laughing and Crying’, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück (DE), 2019
- ‘Dark Habitats Dark Ecology’, Spektrum, Berlin (DE), 2017
- ‘Pre-SOTU’, Tetterode, Amsterdam (NL), 2016
- ‘November Music’, Kruithuis, Den Bosch (NL), 2016
- ‘Meervoud’, Emergent, Veurne (BE), 2016
Installation made possible by iii, The Hague.
