"Once I dissolved" is a sound work and sculptural installation that explores the joyful notion of spreading and scattering into the world.
Together with artist
Cecilia Bengtsson, Genetic Choir singers instantly composed the sound/music that will be heard from a four-speaker installation in the Wilhelmina chalet in the park of Paleis Soestdijk.
Cecilia's work (of which our music is just one ingredient) will be part of the exhibition
Voorlopers that will be open to the public from May to August 2022.
We recorded with a four-corner microphone set-up that mimicked the way speakers will be providing the sound in the Wilhelmina chalet. We worked with a varied palette of vocal sounds exploring feelings of falling, scattering and landing, using extended vocal techniques and straight singing alike.
The result can be heard the whole summer of 2022 in Soestdijk:
