Adrien Missika: International Sound Biennale, Switzerland

We are delighted to announce the participation of Adrien Missika in the International Sound Biennale in Switzerland.

 

From 16.09 until 12.11.2013, Missika will be present the instalation RHÔNE BUMBLEBEE / RHÔNE DRONE  (2023).

 

Adrien Missika has inscribed Zs, also of all sizes. The polished stones are laid out randomly on a carpet where the lines of a 7-meter-long span run. Is it a musical tune? It certainly is. Contrary to museum rules, visitors of all ages are free to take the pebbles in their hands and arrange them differently, according to a known tune, or one composed on the spur of the moment, skilfully or randomly. Although this is a sound biennial, Adrien Missika also wanted to integrate touch into his work.

 

Why a Z? In reference to the bumblebee, that precious pollinator that accompanies its flight with a continuous thud. Adrien Missika has been interested in bees for several years now. His work includes Palazzo del Api (2018), an upside-down Aztec pyramid sculpture set in a Ligurian farmland, with some 2,300 holes of varying diameters to shelter insects, and Ein Horn (2023), a giant rhinoceros horn, also upside-down, with the same insect hotel function, set in the Berlin Zoo. The drone is also the continuous note or chord that underpins certain types of music, such as hurdy-gurdies and bagpipes, and is especially fundamental in Indian music, especially ragas. Contemporary composers such as La Monte Young have taken an interest in it. 

 

In 2022, Marble oracle, pebble gamble..., a first version of this work, in a more modest format, was made with pebbles from the Aegean Sea and called for murmuring, chanting, with M's and H's.

 

https://en.biennaleson.ch/artistes/adrien-missika-2

 

 

 

 

21 Oct 2023