PARTITUR – Take ONE

The visual artist Marianne Lindow creates an alphabet of signs that acts as an interface between her and other artists. She passes on her questioning of a generally valid form of design within art and music to her colleagues. What began as schematic representations now takes its course as a score and is transferred by other artists and musicians.
The visual composition is available in a catalog with all 96 elements and was passed on to each artist to animate the signs in their video. Later, the musicians received the catalog and video to add their sound to the moving signs. egister.

The trilogy is made up of three duets:
the first, “Take ONE” with computer animations by Michael Baumann and music by Harald Blüchel, is carried by a bright soundtrack of shimmering rhythms. Over seven clocked minutes, we find ourselves on a walk through the world of geometry, whereby the reference to the clear aesthetics of form towards the end of the 1990s can be clearly seen here. The structure of “Take ONE” follows the presentation scheme of a freestyle, a short-format presentation of the aesthetic potential inherent in a construction kit of forms. For a few seconds, the lines and figures seem to orient themselves on the white picture surface, unfold and pause, only to disappear again as calmly as they appeared.
The ethereal quality of Harald Blüchel’s music is reminiscent of the post-techno phase of Mille Plateaux and other representatives of the Clicks n’Cuts wave of the time. The soft, marimba-like synthesizer patterns, the constant build-up and breakdown of the streaks, the flowing linking of dots and two-dimensional polygons become an experience of endlessness. “Take ONE” does not impress with compositional leaps or incredible, eye-watering visualizations of mathematics. Rather, it is the quiet surprise that makes it so appealing, because it becomes clear after the first few seconds: it doesn’t take much to take us on a journey with just a few means. (…)
The “Partitur” trilogy combines contemporary visual art, music and computer animation and bows respectfully to the zero hour of digital audio vision, full of playfulness – and glitches.

Lea Pischke, 2020

Music:
Composed & performed by Harald Blüchel
All rights by Cosmic Enterprises music & publishing GmbH, 2018