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Maximilian Marcoll: NUT | LAC 4

Installative performance for double bass, bass drum and electronics

(2023/2024)

The NUT | LAC series is the result of a drastic reduction process. Roughly flowing streams of sound are broken up by slowly changing, drilling pulses. The incessant interruption in turn results in the impression of tipping back into a flow.

A continuous drone sooner or later merges with its surroundings, continuous beats lead to social synchronization.

The pulses and pauses in NUT | LAC throw us back on ourselves and bind the underlying drones to the here and now. At the same time, they unsettle our perception of time: the formation of focal points, accelerations and decelerations, shifts and expansions all take place in the material, but also in our heads.

In NUT | LAC 4, the continuous sounds of the double bass and drums remain acoustically open, the transformation here forms a clearly separate counterpart. Insistence & refusal, tilting figure & metamorphosis, repetition & continuum, alarm, attack, trip, celebration.