Playpausesong (2024)
(Desktopsongs Cycle)
Single-channel video piece, 3’28
16:9 / SD digital file / color / stereo
Mini Bear award, Small File Media Festival 2024
The Cinematheque, Small File Media Festival, Vancouver, Canada 2024
The Digital Depot, Beta, Dublin, Ireland 2024
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Playpausesong is a video piece, a musical system that exists only through a visual process. All spacebars around the world are sentenced together to the same music. It started in the 20th century and is still being played since. Each performer must execute the same gesture indefinitely, the frenetic gesture of media access and their mass consumption.
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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, and Playersong, questioning the mediatization of weapons over the Internet.