Pierre Bastien (F) Somewhere in the Dark musikprotokoll installation
24% video 56% music 20% electronic
For fans and tracing paper, drums, blowers, thumb piano and voice
A voice emerges from out of the dark Somewhere. Robert Wyatt sings his version of Thelonious Monk’s “Locomotive”. Pierre Bastien conducts his mechanical orchestra in accompaniment, on paper organs and paper drums. And to the quiet rustling of a film screen made of tracing paper, we see Pierre Bastien’s thumb piano, that seems to lend a face to the voice, as if our African ancestors were rising from the dead.
