“Cod++(e, a).choose” (Pronounced Code/Coda) is a sound installation consisting of 5315 miniatures for a text-to-speech application, a disklavier, electronically-generated sounds and ready-made audio samples, rooted in Eran Hadas’ poetry book “Code”. This book was written by a code designed to uncover all the Haiku poems, hidden in The Torah, which is an encrypted code, not yet cracked.
The musical structure echoes the book, where each and every miniature follows the meter of Haiku poems, each having the precise same length (14 seconds), adding up to a 372 minutes long music box. Each and every miniature serves as both an independent piece and a unit of the over-all composition.
The poet’s voice serves as the source for a text-to-speech application, developed especially for this piece. The disklavier plays chords rooted in a frequency analysis of Eran Hadas’ voice for each vowel and consonant. The sibilants are electronically generated and add diversity. In addition, ‘pictorial words’, based on ready made samples, pop up here and there to appeal to our contemporary collective memory, reflecting the media-consumeristic society we live in. These samples cover a wide range of contexts, from the classical repertoire to pop songs.
It is a multi-cultural secular homily, presenting a contemporary, digital interpretation of Moses’ five books which are the foundation of the Jewish holy law and code of conduct.
Live@Hateiva, 7.11.15
Quotes:
Haiku #588: Schubert, Der Erlkonig; The Beatles, All you need is love.
Haiku #589-590: Shuli Natan, Yerushalayim Shel Zahav
Haiku #591: Diana Washington, Mad about the boy; Genesis, Mama; Schubert, Der Erlkonig.
Haiku #594: Stravinsky, Abraham and Isaac; Survivor, Eye of the tiger.
Haiku #595: Genesis, Mama.
Haiku #596: Schubert, Der Erlkonig.
Haiku #600-601: Stravinsky, Abraham and Isaac.
Haiku #602-603: Diana Washington, Mad about the boy.