Together with Szabó we decided to improvise to five of her paintings in the hall. Since the goal of the performance was to focus the artworks, we decided to direct our visual attention to the painting at hand during each improvisation.
#Vernissage how to#
Even though it was decided that we shouldn’t use text, the communicative aspect of how to approach the audience needed to be regarded. We outlined possibilities of relating to the qualities of the paintings in terms of colors, shapes and forms, what we associated with these visual artistic expressions and how we could ’translate’ this into musical shape in terms of form, sound and interaction. Our sounding interactions focused the musical role taking, such as solos, imitation, or shadowing (an accompanying instrument relates to a solo instrument by making similar musical movements, reflecting rather than imitating them) and setting of instruments in the improvisations. The musical qualities of sound regarded dynamics, phrasing, musical form, and degree of stability, set in contrast to noice. We listed parameters and qualities regarding aspects of music as sound, our sounding interactions, the paintings and relations to the audience and the physical space. How could we create interactional strategies that were open, but not text based? Together we developed a set of strategies, based on a more musico-structural perspective. This brought some new and interesting challenges into the work. Magdolna Szabó’s work has an abstract, geometrical character, and we early agreed with the artist on improvising without using words or creating stories or drama. Together with soprano Tiina Markkanen, violinist Fritiof Palm and pianist and composer Jonatan Sersam, I decided to pursue this project, and we met for some rehearsal sessions during January and February 2015. The idea was to improvise music to her paintings during a vernissage at Staffanstorps Konsthall in February 2015.
This performance project emanated out of a contact from the artist Magdolna Szabó, who was interested in cooperating with musicians from Malmö Academy of Music.
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