HC Gilje and Emi Maeda “Storm”

Gilje/Maeda: Storm

 
HC Gilje and Emi Maeda were both taking part in the project Exchange where we matched two artists together, two artists that had never been working with each other before or even heard of each other. They were asked to make a piece together. Just the way of curating was mash-up and perhaps Gilje and Maeda’s piece was the most mashed-up of the Exchange pieces with the one by Kirkegaard and Röed as a close second. The other artists collaborated more while Maeda and Gilje hardly saw each other. They just illustrated each separate work where Gilje worked with the visuals and Maeda with the audio.

Maeda is a classical trained harpist and studied at the academy in Helsinki. But she was also making electronic noise music. She was complaining that the Scandinavian cities were far too quiet and so was the music. Even Scandinavian noise she claimed to be too modest. She wanted something more. Interesting was that Gilje directly asked to work with a good noise musician, someone really aggressive since it would fit his visuals.

It was then a big surprise that the music was a quiet and light and the visuals was very soft and bright. Instead of the expected dark and noisy burst out Storm was a well tuned and elegant piece. Still it was disturbing enough to make the staff at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, where it was screened among any other venues, to constantly turn the sound off because the security guard couldn’t stand the sound, claiming it sounded like the fire alarm!

Emi Madea: webusers.siba.fi/~emaeda

HC Gilje: www.nervousvision.com/