“Muted Situation 1: Muted Classical Quartet” by Samson Young

Title:

Muted Situation 1: Muted Classical Quartet

Artist(s) and People Involved:

Exhibiting Artist(s):



• Samson Young -
  • City University Hong Kong

Symposium:

• ISEA2016: 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Art

Artist Statement:

In “No References”, two related works by Young quietly (literally) steal the show. Muted Situation #1: Muted Classical Quartet and Muted Situation #2: Lion Dance are two simple single-channel works whose dominant sound-producing constituents are suppressed. This was done “without a diminution in the energy normally exerted in the performance”. As Young writes:
The muting of sound layers does not translate into silence; nor does it equate to emptiness. Rather, the act of muting is an intensely focused re-imagination and re-construction of the auditory experience. It involves the conscious suppression of dominant voices as a way to uncover the unheard and the marginalised, or to reveal hitherto unconscious assumptions about hearing and sounding.

Category:

• Art Exhibition
• Video Art