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Picklesong (2025)

Single-channel video piece, 3’50
16:9 / SD digital file / color / stereo

“ Picklesong is a video piece, a musical system that exists only through a visual process. Here, we examine the question of gesture in a fixed-media work, a work with the notion of “expanded” music. Where does it belong? Is it that of the recorded performer, or that of the medium's manipulation? Is it the result of writing before, during or after recording? And are these different temporalities really what define the gesture? Since inevitably, the only time that exists is the one of the work at the moment of its playback. “


Desktopsongs is a cycle of video pieces questioning our relationship with technology. Each work - inspired by desktop movie practice - is a musical system dependent on a visual process, tending towards an economy of the device. The cycle includes Screensong, questioning data privacy, Simonsong, questioning technological hegemony in the world of contemporary music, Playpausesong, questioning mass media consumption, Playersong, questioning the mediatization of weapons over the Internet, and Picklesong, questioning the idea of gesture in “expanded” music.