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Silencing Part of an Orchestra

Samson Young’s Muted Situation began with a deceptively simple idea: what happens if one layer of an event is deliberately removed from what we hear? In an orchestra, muting pitched sound can reveal breathing, movement and physical effort that music normally hides. I like the thought that silence does not necessarily mean absence. Sometimes removing the thing we expect to hear exposes an entirely different composition underneath it.

https://www.mplus.org.hk/en/magazine/samson-young-unheard-sounds/

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mplus.org.hk Samson Young: Unheard Sounds | M+ Museum Artist Samson Young explains the origins of his Muted Sounds series, in which musicians are instructed to perform without creating music
Hong Kong

Music Without the Pianist

Samson Young’s Carillon includes a prepared Disklavier player piano alongside documents, books, tickets and personal objects. I like the contradiction of a piano playing while the performer is absent. Sound makes the archive temporarily physical again. Paper can describe a past, but a mechanical instrument fills the room with an event happening now. Presence survives even when the person producing it has disappeared.

https://www.mplus.org.hk/en/collection/objects/carillon-2019584/

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mplus.org.hk Carillon (2017) - Samson Young | Objects | M+ Museum Discover some of the world’s foremost collections of twentieth- and twenty-first-century visual culture.