Yesterday@November Music Festival

When I first heard all of these music boxes, I was really not sure what the tune was or even if the boxes were playing the same melody. What stood out more was the mechanistic quality of the tines and the drone of motors. It is mildly disorienting.  

Despite the melody burning ghostly traces into my sonic memory, I enjoyed helping out Dyane and Evelien with their installation. I hope they will develop other projects centered on music boxes; they really do have nice sonic qualities. After all, there are not so many automated mechanisms which have survived for centuries. Certainly, none with so much poetic and nostalgic relevance. See more of Yesterday

Yesterday at Orgelpark, April 2011.