Quartz Music
2021


In this long music, the apparatus of timing is the player, its instrument, and the music itself. In an ideal situation, this performance would include all kinds of timekeeping instruments: water clocks, candle clocks, pendulum clocks, mechanical clocks, quartz clocks, atomic clocks ...... The presented work is therefore a part of this ideal performance, which uses jumping-second quartz clocks - the last perceptible ritual of timekeeping technology - to realize this music. Five quartz clocks are switched on at the same time, and the tremors of their second hands will gradually shift out of sequence with each other.
Full text:On Quartz Music(中)