VALIE EXPORT
Anagrammatical Compostion with Dice by VALIE EXPORT (W.A. Mozart, Piano) for Soprano Saxophone
2010
Video (black and white, sound)
Not on view
The starting point for this video is an eighteenth-century musical dice game attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A sequence of short, precomposed musical options are randomly selected through rolling dice and following a table of rules; these sequences are then patched together to create a new composition. Here we see one possible result of this chance procedure, which, the artist explained, “in a long, intensive time process . . . was rolled by me.” The unpredictable sound of the dice interacts with that of the newly generated melody, becoming an integral part of the musical experiment.
2020
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VALIE EXPORT
Austrian, 1940–2026 76 works onlineWhen VALIE EXPORT (born Waltraud Lehner) was 13 years old, she wrote in her notebook, “In the beginning was the word and the word was a man.
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