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Éva Polgár and Sándor Vály _Nervous System_ AV Installation

Éva Polgár and Sándor Vály _Nervous System_Installation. ektro records 2021 The introductory text can be found under the "Milky Way" project. ... Nervous System The human nervous system evoked roots, paths, and relations in us, thus we chose to work with it based on an associative and visual experience. Unlike the Milky Way, this is a symmetrical system, and we were intrigued by how it would manifest in music. At the same time, we faced difficulties by turning the clearly symmetrical shape of the nervous system sidewise. In the new horizontal layout we lost the transparent quality of the subject, which makes it impossible to process the music holistically. Even though the symmetry transformed into ‘chaos’, the notes still related to one another in a symmetrical fashion embedded in an all-inclusive disorder. While we remained faithful to the notation technique used in Bruegel Variations, Nervous System shows similar features to Mondrian Variations in its sound aesthetic. Whereas we aimed to preserve the original tone of the acoustic instruments in the first and third parts of our music series, we achieved a more experimental sonority in the second and fourth parts through the preparation of the piano and the application of various sound filters. We wrote the score of Nervous System for prepared piano and two hands. On the recording we kept the right hand’s line untouched. To imitate percussive instruments, we subjected the left hand’s line to distortion and transposition. The elements that hold the piano and percussive parts together are distortion, extension, fade-out, and interruption. These means create yet another layer of sonic effect in which notes and motives react to each other in alignment, anticipation, or decay. In conclusion, Mondrian Variation and Nervous System carry in themselves the noise and pulse of society, built environment, industrialization, and machine work; the Bruegel Variations and Milky Way represent a purer and ethereal world.  Éva Polgár / Sándor Vály