Visual artist and composer
Cycles and cycles is a listening device playing a sound composition whose structure is constantly changing. Four portable cassette tape players are playing cassettes of different lengths. The magnetic tapes are ‘looped’ so as to never stop and the motors of the portable players are not spinning at exactly the same speed. Thus, by de-synchronization, the structure of the piece is modified at each loop. Like the instruments of a quartet, each of the cassettes contains a sound track which, when coupled with the others, forms the soundscape of the piece.
All sounds originate from a room tone recorded in a morgue. They were freely transformed in order to extract musical qualities. The repetitive structure of the piece can evoke the cycle of life and death, as well as the cycle of labor and mourning which intersect daily in the environment of the morgue.