Triangular Waving for Solo Sax

Over the course of five decades, Nancy Holt (1938–2014) explored how we perceive our environment and how we attempt to understand our place on the surface of this world. Holt’s System Works reveal the mechanics of everyday technological structures for the circulation of electricity, heat and air. Electrical System exposes something so common to contemporary life that it often goes forgotten: light. Holt referred to the work as a “fountain of light”. Visitors are invited to move around the installation and the network of light and the sound of André Vida’s saxophone along the atrium. Light as well as music travel through waves – a phenomenon Vida is playing with.

 

André Vida (b.1974) is a saxophonist, composer and writer living in Berlin. He creates performance pieces developing presence through the materiality of sound, physical gesture and the moment. Vida performs widely as a soloist and has collaborated with artists including Tarek Atoui, Anthony Braxton, Evelina Deicmane, Hassan Khan and Hajnal Nemeth. He also worked with Anri Sala on performances at the Pinault Collection, Serpentine Gallery, New Museum and Buffalo Bayou Cistern. Vida has been commissioned by the Tri-Centric Foundation, Global Art Forum, the Berlin Biennale, Eyebeam, Hyper! at The Deichtorhallen Hamburg and the European Sax Ensemble. A three-volume set of his work from 1995–2011 was released on PAN, his piece for 41 saxophones, Minor Differences, was released on Entr’acte, and he has been featured in The Wire, TANK, Monopol, and Electronic Beats.