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Performed by Jan Hendrickse
Jan Hendrickse (UK, 1966) Black Noise (2019) 15’
Black Noise is a work for solo flute, exploring the idea that an irreversible change in the materiality of the instrument becomes the work. The performer uses an acetylene blowtorch to play (and burn) a flute made from bamboo. It is concerned with the nature and function of materials within compositional processes, specifically, the preparation, modification, or destruction of an instrument.
The title Black Noise engages a number of registers of meaning. As a technical term in signal processing, black noise (as opposed to white noise) refers to an absence of perceptible sound. This silencing, or the absence of perception, reminds us of the precarity of human existence. Blackening also refers to a stage in the philosophy of Alchemy in which the human self, or subject, is radically decomposed. © Jan Hendrickse
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Getting There
Venue: Bates Mill Courtyard
Address: Colne Road, Huddersfield, England, HD1 3ER, United Kingdom.