composition of mistakes
solo concerto
COMPOSITION OF MISTAKES: SOLO CONCERTO started out as a private performance, as an attempt to master, within just one weekend, a violin concerto by Bach again, a piece that I often played as a child. At the end of this weekend I made an audio recording of the result of my attempts. This recording was subsequently translated by a specialist into the binary music notation that is used for pianolas and barrel organs. I asked the specialist to also translate the original score of the concerto into this language. The result was two paper rolls with a length of 12 meters each: one contained the correct version, and the other presented my own attempt, including the mistakes I had made while trying. After that I asked him to make a book out of only my mistakes. Every hole in the cardboard book is a tone and represents a misreaching for the right note. This is the COMPOSITION OF MISTAKES, a book in which a form has been given, in a very precise manner, to failing.
photo G.J. van Rooij