30 min. cluster chord meditation for 10 singers with Ligeti, Penderecki, Riley and Glass in the background.

Performance at Kopenhagen Art Week, 2010, at The VM Mountain by Bjarke Ingels in the final stages of construction. The audience arrived to a mash-up of voice compositions by famous modernist and minimalist composers Ligeti, Penderecki, Riley and Glass playing from large outdoor speakers. When they arrived on schedule, a bell sound would indicated the beginning inside the raw building and then the singers slowly began to blend in with the audience, listening and reacting towards each other. They were instructed to mirror energies and moods, becoming a collective, improvising voice-composition entity. The title of the performance was a page-long essay about the artist and a mountain in Korea and when one singer began to read, everyone would follow and then slowly go back to singing.

Filmed by Sun Hee Engelstoft

Below: 1st ACTS Performance Festival, cluster chord performance at The Museum for Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark, 2011.

© Jette Hye Jin Mortensen