Installations

The Loudest Points, 2008

the Digital Art  Lab (DAL), Holon

The Loudest Points, 2014

Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv

(A Quote from exhibition text by my wife and collaborator, artist Michal Naaman)

…”The Curator Neta Eshel had an idea to ask "living couples" to do joined projects in the DLA. Yossi Marchaim, my partner in life, worked a lot with long magnetic loops - in this case a loop that would pass through 2 equal tape players, each plays the same sounds - with a time difference  in an endless loop. We tried to make the longest - 11 meters  which  will give 77 seconds. I took a work of mine from 1977 – collage Of "fish bird", a scream siren, on which was written in letterset "הבשורה על פי הציפור" (The Gospel According to the bird) and enlarged it on cardboard to the size of the room ( 7*260) which allowed the tape to cover the long distance as if he was patting the figures. The sound track needed to consider the dialog between the 2 tapes and we picked the vocal  dialog that is created between two female tennis players in a famous game: Maria Sharapova against Venus Williams. The YouTube called it "The Loudest points" which became the name of the work. The Shouts went into process of distortion and ambient electronic low sounds which centered the piece into a close space and filled the void between the shouting.

The installation was shown for 3 months ,and since it was in the 2nd floor you could think that a giant bird penetrated the DLA.

Mussrara Mix Festival #14

Analog - Epilog: The Reel to Reel Show

Laptopia #5

Autopsy of the Vulgar

Photo: Goni Riskin

"DISRUPTED GOLDBERG" - 12/21

DISRUPTED GOLDBERG (for piano and ensemble - December 2021) commissioned by MUSICA NOVA GROUP for the concert "SPONTANEOUS STUCKNESS"

Though the ensemble part can be performed with any group who can move their instruments while playing, this score was written especially for the current nova ensemble: piano, melodica, bass clarinet, classic guitar, double bass and tenor saxophone. The piano is in the middle of the stage and the other performers are in the corners far away from the pianist. Each player has a bag which includes the score, ping pong balls, marbles and similar objects.

1) The pianist starts to play variation nr.25 from The Goldberg Variations by J.S. Bach. Whenever he stops the ensemble starts moving toward the piano while playing their parts. When the pianist starts playing everybody friezes, like in the children game "Red Light." this part ends when the players approach the piano.

2) once they are close enough, they put aside their instruments and start, gradually start to throw stuff into the piano/after a certain climax has been achieved the pianist starts to play the closing phrases of the variation and the players return to their instruments and play an 8- bar coda.

3) the players roll on the floor, towards the audience the remaining marbles.

On the premiere on 6/3/2022, the pianist Assaf Shatil conducted the whole piece.