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Bernhard
Gal: Installations
(Book & CD)
Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg | Gromoga Records 2005
In his intermedia art projects and sound installations, Bernhard Gal combines
sound, light, objects, video projections and spatial concepts. This publication
provides a comprehensive overview of Gál’s artistic output between 1999 and 2004,
documenting Gál’s solo works as well as his collaborative installations with the
Japanese architect and artist Yumi Kori. The book is accompanied by an audio CD
containing previously unpublished sound excerpts from all documented works.
Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg | Gromoga Records; 80 pages, hardcover, 70 photos.
Published by Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg, ISBN: 3-936636-53-2; CD: gro 10501
Edited by Ingrid Beirer / DAAD Berlin; with texts by Barbara Barthelmes, Stefan Fricke and Bernhard Gal.
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Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg | Gromoga Records 2005
In his intermedia art projects and sound installations, Bernhard Gal combines
sound, light, objects, video projections and spatial concepts. This publication
provides a comprehensive overview of Gál’s artistic output between 1999 and 2004,
documenting Gál’s solo works as well as his collaborative installations with the
Japanese architect and artist Yumi Kori. The book is accompanied by an audio CD
containing previously unpublished sound excerpts from all documented works.
Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg | Gromoga Records; 80 pages, hardcover, 70 photos.
Published by Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg, ISBN: 3-936636-53-2; CD: gro 10501
Edited by Ingrid Beirer / DAAD Berlin; with texts by Barbara Barthelmes, Stefan Fricke and Bernhard Gal.
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'Installations' is also available as a 'CD
only' version:
Audio-CD
'Installations'
Gromoga Records; 19
tracks, length: 74 Min.; gro
10501
Exclusive audio CD edition of 750 copies.
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Track
list:
1.
belit (part I)
2. bestimmung darmstadt
3. Dissociated Voices
4. Dreiband
5. enelten
6. Hinaus:: In den, Wald.
7. I am sHitting in a room
8. Klangbojen
9. Night Pulses
10. RGB
2. bestimmung darmstadt
3. Dissociated Voices
4. Dreiband
5. enelten
6. Hinaus:: In den, Wald.
7. I am sHitting in a room
8. Klangbojen
9. Night Pulses
10. RGB
11.
soundbagism
12. zhu shui
13. Oelbilder
14. Trändi, händi, yo!
15. Machina temporis
16. Defragmentation/red
17. Defragmentation/blue
18. Green Voice
19. belit (part II)
12. zhu shui
13. Oelbilder
14. Trändi, händi, yo!
15. Machina temporis
16. Defragmentation/red
17. Defragmentation/blue
18. Green Voice
19. belit (part II)
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Supported
by SKE / Austro Mechana, Austria.
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Review
- Rahma Khazam (The Wire, UK, 03/2006)
Austrian composer and artist Bernhard Gál has been interweaving sound, music, light, and space in intricate, carefully constructed installations since the late 90s. The monograph Installations documents these works by means of texts, lavish illustrations and a 19-track accompanying CD (also available in a CD-only version from Austrian label, Gromoga). It highlights the breadth and richness of Gál’s soundworld. The unrelenting rhythmic whirrs of an oldfashioned matrix printer printing out a quotation from the testament of Austrian playwright Thomas Bernhard turn the spatial layout of the text into a temporal-acoustic structure. Elsewhere, compelling, layered ‘voice sculptures’ derived from interviews conducted by Gál demonstrate the musical and sonic potential of language. Meanwhile, the haunting, harrowing belit, a composition for 8 musicians and 16 light sources, stands in stark contrast to Trendy Cell Phone, Yo!, whose absorbing sonic interplay of shrill, sharp beeps highlights the performative potential of mobile telephones. Taken together, the tracks make up an autonomous composition that can be listened to without referring to the images – for in Gál’s installations the emphasis is on the sound component, which is not permitted to recede into the background, as is often the case with mixed-media installations. On the evidence of the photos, however, the visuals are as exquisitely crafted as the sounds, and it would be a pity to miss out on them. In the photograph of Oil Paintings, a hidden light source illuminates lush, softly glowing motifs painted with cooking oil, lubricating oil and essential oils, which set off the dreamy, tinkling soundtrack to perfection. Green Voice, one of several collaborations with the Japanese architect and artist Yumi Kori, was conceived for the four-storey archive of an old public library in Tokyo. It featured recordings of statements by local residents as well as the latter’s light boxes. Their green booklike shapes glowed eerily in the dark, while the recorded statements, transformed into a weightless, echoey vocal composition, filled the archive, connecting the interviewees with the library as a site for the collection and dissemination of knowledge. An unmissable publication.
More reviews here.
Austrian composer and artist Bernhard Gál has been interweaving sound, music, light, and space in intricate, carefully constructed installations since the late 90s. The monograph Installations documents these works by means of texts, lavish illustrations and a 19-track accompanying CD (also available in a CD-only version from Austrian label, Gromoga). It highlights the breadth and richness of Gál’s soundworld. The unrelenting rhythmic whirrs of an oldfashioned matrix printer printing out a quotation from the testament of Austrian playwright Thomas Bernhard turn the spatial layout of the text into a temporal-acoustic structure. Elsewhere, compelling, layered ‘voice sculptures’ derived from interviews conducted by Gál demonstrate the musical and sonic potential of language. Meanwhile, the haunting, harrowing belit, a composition for 8 musicians and 16 light sources, stands in stark contrast to Trendy Cell Phone, Yo!, whose absorbing sonic interplay of shrill, sharp beeps highlights the performative potential of mobile telephones. Taken together, the tracks make up an autonomous composition that can be listened to without referring to the images – for in Gál’s installations the emphasis is on the sound component, which is not permitted to recede into the background, as is often the case with mixed-media installations. On the evidence of the photos, however, the visuals are as exquisitely crafted as the sounds, and it would be a pity to miss out on them. In the photograph of Oil Paintings, a hidden light source illuminates lush, softly glowing motifs painted with cooking oil, lubricating oil and essential oils, which set off the dreamy, tinkling soundtrack to perfection. Green Voice, one of several collaborations with the Japanese architect and artist Yumi Kori, was conceived for the four-storey archive of an old public library in Tokyo. It featured recordings of statements by local residents as well as the latter’s light boxes. Their green booklike shapes glowed eerily in the dark, while the recorded statements, transformed into a weightless, echoey vocal composition, filled the archive, connecting the interviewees with the library as a site for the collection and dissemination of knowledge. An unmissable publication.
More reviews here.
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