Andrew Blanton
Music is a universal language. My attempt in collaboration with Moin Samadi is to take different viewpoints of the subject that he has given me. I have used percussion to speak musically and in doing so; I can speak more universally. Audience participation is essential. I have tried to extend the conversation to the viewer with an aleatoric element of viewing and an indeterminacy in the sequence of the three videos. Working under the premise that I want the audience to engage the work, there are four basic elements shown in the video that are universal with three different sequences of the sound, a male and female expression of those elements, and one viewer. The percussion that I have chosen produces simple sounds that can be understood anywhere in the world and are just as foreign to western audiences as they would be to a Persian audience.
Moin Samadi
This is a project based on 4 principal subjects I think that the most suitable volume for this video was a volume in related to these 4 principal subjects. I tried to make it similar to ancient works because these works are not tangible in museums and in this exhibition we will have both works which will be visited and will be touched.