Triptyque of De Stijl. Part 3: Rietveld invented space within architecture. In this last episode, Roland Kuit as ‘sound architect’. How to construct sound fields?
Roland Kuit first has to invent/build sound according to the principles of The Nieuwe Beelding. Pure notes are the building blocks of spectra. This means having to stack energies to build a harmonic content. Spatially, this is done by choosing carefully considered points in the exposition area to divide this spectrum and letting it be reflected through bare speakers, like incorporeal sounds. Either by standing still or by following a route through the space, creates these sound fields, that coincide with projections by the artist Karin Schomaker.
Just like the De Stijl artists were working on creating a New World from ‘het Al’ (the All), by making and dividing space, a sonologist, an expert on sound, can create ‘het Al’ himself. Silence is ‘het Niets’ (the Nothingness), since there’s no energy to create a sound, no vibrations. To create het Al, a sonologist creates Ruis (Noise), a constructed chaos. In white noise are all the available spectra. Mondriaan wanted note sounds and noise sounds without emotions. Apart from de Witte Ruis (White Noise), there are numerous other static sounds waiting to be formed. Kuit works with the Kyma system, which can literally disentangle new sounds from the chaos of this Al, that can be placed in the space like stacked pillars of sound. They are monoliths as spectral stacked sounds and sound noises.“Op het Snijvlak van Toon en Kleur” (On the Edge of Sound and Colour) will be displayed in Paris, London, Sydney, Melbourne, Buenos Aires and Kansas City by the Art Research Center during the 50th Anniversary celebration tours 2017-2020.
Piet Mondriaan envisioned a building where de Nieuwe Beelding and sound meet and form a whole. Open and spacious.
“Op het Snijvlak van Toon en Kleur” Radio version – Roland Emile Kuit, 2017.
