In his installations, performances and media works, Dreyblatt creates
complex textual and spatial metaphors for memory which function as a
media discourse on recollection and the archive. His installations,
public artworks and performances have been exhibited and staged
extensively in Europe. "Dreyblatt's project, maintains its edge--and its
importance for the rethinking of identity, history, culture, and
memory--by refusing to retreat from or transcend [...] public, archival
traces." - Jeffrey Wallen, Hampshire College.
Among the second generation of New York minimal
composers, Arnold Dreyblatt has developed a unique approach to
composition and music performance. He has invented a set of new and
original instruments, performance techniques, and a system of tuning.
His compositions are based on harmonics, and thus just intonation,
played either through a bowing technique he developed for his modified
bass, and other modified and conventional instruments which he specially
tuned. He originally used a steady pulse provided by the bowing motion on his bass (placing his music in the minimal category), but he eventually added many more instruments and more rhythmic variety.
Quelle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Dreyblatt
http://www.dreyblatt.de/
The Wunderblock, 2000
In 1925, Freud wrote a text that compares the faculty of memory to a
child's toy known as a Wunderblock. It consists of a wax slab stretched
with cellophane, upon which a text may be inscribed, and just as readily
erased by lifting the cellophane layer up and away from the wax slab.
In contrast to Freud's model, in which the pressure of the act of
inscription onto the cellophane surface continues in the direction of
the underlying layer of wax, in 'The Wunderblock', the original
selection and entry of data has been concluded in the past. The
movement originates from ROM and is held in RAM, before travelling up
towards the surface.
The ReCollection Mechanism
data projection, circular wire screen, sound, 1998
Black room, computer data projection, suspended wire mesh, sound equipment. Size variable.
An automated writing and recitation machine is found in a darkened black
space. One enters a three dimensional data architecture where the
process of searching, sorting and locating words and the overlapping
inter-textual linkages of information are simulated optically by
metaphors of transparence and complexity. Projected onto a barely
visible cylindrical screen are multiple transparent layers of
continually flowing historical data, which appear to be suspended in the
center of the space, and which delineate the room contours with textual
landscapes.
