Pavilion (Excavation)
2021
collaborative performance project
CR David Helbich
Materials
Score - PDF
Mobile app - available on request
Instrumentation
Percussion x3
Saxophone x2
Accordion x1
Performers (with microphones) x2
Live electronics (Pure Data app for mobile phone, wireless microphones, amplification)
Performances
Music in the City, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, August 2021
Documentation
About
A summer pavilion for Darmstadt, created through sound.
Spatial sketch and movement chart
Eight musicians become an archeological team on an excavation site, looking for traces of lost structures in the city. Somewhere not far from the Wilhelminenplatz, where this performance takes place, a pavilion used to stand – the Ludwigstempel. Traces of this pavilion still remain beneath the surface. So, too, do the sounds and memories of a city that has remained under construction for the last 70 years.
For a fleeting moment, these lost structures and sonic memories of Darmstadt are excavated from the ground, and translated into resonances in the air.