UTI#2

U.T.I#2 from daniel davidovsky on Vimeo.

U.T.I #2 – A Sound Approach to Instability

In this composition Davidovsky plays on a system based on unstable elements. The common denominator of these elements is the use of audio feedback and the disruption of conventions.
Davidovsky uses an idiom of his own by playing the soprano saxophone in an unstable fashion, “feedbacking” and forcing the instrument to do what it doesn’t mean to do; approaching it as a metal pipe in the hands (and the mouth) of the composer.

This work transitions between different layers: the material layer (metal pipe and ceramic plate) and its sonic properties and the language layer. Spanish, English and Hebrew are mixed up, coming out as a single flow; an improvised speech of ritualistic texts merging into the music as an expression of an unstable state of mind.

 

There are many ways of looking at this work: the collective view, social and political, in first person, since for the last 20 years Davidovsky has lived in the tragic reality of Israel where the instability is an existential question, literally, and not only a philosophical issue. The other view is the individual and psychological aspect. This work deals with Davidovsky’s experience of an immigrant observing the blurring process of the cultural baggage. Mother tongue and the childhood memories move in an oneiric way to that certain point where history and reality turn less tangible.

As a summary, this work concludes with some field recordings that have been taken with a cellular phone at the Intensive Care Unit where Davidovsky’s parents were hospitalized after a traffic accident. The work is an improvised composition with a given structure (movements) and fixed references. The general color of the composition transits from reductionism to drones to dense masses of noise.

The piece U.T.I #2 has been presented at the AudioArt Festival In Poland

21-11-2008 @Kronika Bytom

22-11-2008 @Bunkier Sztuki Krakow

25-11-2008 @CSW Warsaw

26-11-2008 @Museum of Gdynia City Gdynia