PROTOTYPE [432] PROJECT

Subsidy for Art Projects

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon

2005/2006

Prototype [432] Project is a study of dodecaphonic composition methodology and it is directly related to concrete work of Arnold Schoenberg, Concert for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 42.

Concept: It cannot be a number but it should represent any convenient numeric group combination contented into the virtual numerical structure.

A form is seen as a structure constituted by system of relations and it is opposed to substance what they related. At this point, only the formal aspects of the form are constitutive of the value of a work of art and non formal elements of the work, such as representation, thoughts, emotion, information, morality, etc., are irrelevant, because the values of the work consists exclusively in the manner of presenting and expressing the meanings contained. It should be expressed and appreciated exclusively as an object in and of itself, or experienced, interpreted or valued within a boarder context; it is art object which is autonomous and self sufficient; it represents aesthetic ideal of “pure form” understood as a structure of elements, which is a certain multiplicity into a unity, a whole. It does not depend on the life feelings contained in life, nor does it consists in a recreation of objects, but consists only in the unity of pure formal structural elements.

Dimensions: 100x100x100cm

Materials: steel, 432 electric guitar strings, 864 electric guitar machine heads.

Sound project: 432 contact microphones, cables, 36 mixers (12 channels), amplifier, multichanel sound mixer with automation, AP.

Credits: Include 2007 Conference, Royal College of Art, London, UK. Prototype [432] project, NUMERO Projecta ´06, Lisbon, Portugal.

Photos © Edmundo Diaz Sotelo