Opera for a Small Room

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Opera for a Small Room

2005

Medium:
Mixed media with sound, record players, records and synchronized lighting

Duration:
20 min. loop

Dimensions:
2,6 x 3 x 4,5m

Cardiff & Miller

There are twenty-four antique loudspeakers out of which come songs, sounds, arias, and occasional pop tunes. There are almost two thousand records stacked around the room and eight record players, which turn on and off robotically syncing with the soundtrack. The sound of someone moving and sorting albums is heard. The audience cannot enter the room. To see and hear his world, they have to look through windows, holes in the walls, and cracks in the doorways and watch his shadow move around the room.

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