civyiu kkliu + ilya monosov cartolina postale

Civyiu Kkliu and Ilya Monosov have picked up on the postcard aesthetic of this label and contributed an artefact that fits right into that schema. Cartolina Postale presents Compostion No 2, a very sketchy graphic score which is printed directly onto the postcard sleeve, and in whose creation both artists had a hand. They may have sent their drawings to each other on postcards for all I know. The graphic scores, tinylittle back- of-envelope sketches, have somehow been translated into a text instruction for the realisation of a tiny little piece of sound art, which involves a metal plate, a piece of vinyl without grooves,toothpicks, and a music box. The metal rubs up against the vinyl which is revolving at the time, at a speed left undetermined. The toothpicks brush against the music box while this is happening. This all appears to be happening on a minuscule scale. I’d be less surprised if I woke up one day and found a flea circus playing the entire works of Christian Wolff in the back garden. If you can endure these 24 minutes of infuriatingly fiddly sound events which appear to be taking place on some sub-atomic level, you might be able to match what you hear to the graphic score. Kkliu has some creditable ideas about what he calls the 'charged space' of a postcard and its relation to place, time, memory and distance, which to some extent carry across into the finished work. A very nice artefact.

reviewed by Ed Pinsent issue 17 in the sound projector
9/14/2008