The initial core of the project is an art performance in form of a chorus concert, in which a chorus with an accompaniment of a grand piano and a thereminvox performs five specially written for this project “Lyrical Songs about Physics“, devoted to such essential for contemporary physics theories as Set Theory, Theory of Supersymmetry, String Theory, Theory of Everything. The participants of this chorus-performance are 50 artists and 2 art critics from Belarus.
lyrics: Sergei Pukst & Maxim Tyminko; music/piano: Sergei Pukst; conductor: Olga Yanum; theremin: Alexander Havkin;
camera: Amir Fathi, Svetlana Kozlovskaia; production managers: Anna Novik, Daniel Einzinger; belarusian text editor: Aksana Zabashtanskaya; sound mix: Vaidas Thisen; motion tracking assistant: Sergei Terasuk
Installation:
a wooden platform with the screen, two green plants in two pots, HD video projector, a computer, stereo loudspeakers + subwoofer, leaflets with the lyrics and comments for the songs. Installation view. Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Lyrics here: .....................................................................
song #1
Set Theory If you happened to glance behind the surface you’ll see the mystery of sets that'll twinkle from the very depth. Through whimsy of the sight and light, bringing together nature and number the solid frame of objects, once drafted, manifests itself. The mathematical peaks above the clouds are clearly seen. Cryptic harmony of bushes. Linear infinity of fields. An extra element in nature reveals the kernel of the structure and the infinity of objects in depth of their architectures.
vocalise ('Ah')
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song #2
Supersymmetry The symmetry turns round from world to world. Between the lines and shadows interplay you understand that you are not alone.
vocalise ('Ah')
There is someone bodiless who is the product of the dark. With whom in rainbow spectrum we are forever linked.
vocalise ('Ah')
Dead and alive at the same time he was waiting for a glance from outside. Having opened another universe, he got invisible and vanished to appear in starry darkness of inside out space; to give uncharged canvas the clarity of new energies.
vocalise ('Ah')
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song #3
String Theory
The expectation of existence
in heavy silence of membranes.
There is no time. The minutes are not born.
The air and the earth do not exist.
They will appear in the plexus of the strings.
Replying to each other they will sing.
And maybe at the core of our tissue,
the secrets of the sun, a cup and a pine-tree
everything becomes just fluctuations
of one string.
On the worldsheet
On the worldsheet
We closely look into infinity.
Strings, like delusion, flashing in the dark,
vibrate into endless expanse
their tension concentrating in a point.
On the worldsheet
On the worldsheet
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song #4
The Theory Of Everything
The principal is not essential anymore.
The ground's cracking under our feet.
Time and space are not original.
They're just a mutual convention.
The fundamental is not steady
in superdimension of extra-space.
What’s later on? Just a serenity
in the vague that attracts us
by the power of emptiness
in a blank infinite scenery.
The fundamental is not steady
in superdimension of extra-space.
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song #5 An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything We cut down the thicket of formulas to discover clear shine and listen how in elegant description reality's obtaining its true shape.
vocalise ('Mm')
We cut down the thicket of formulas
to discover clear shine
and listen how in elegant description
reality's obtaining its true shape.
vocalise ('Mm')
comix:
a panel of 180 pictures glued on a wall. variable sizes.