Ventilation, Clarinet, and Loops

In a system of reflective pipes, cubes, and welds, the sound of rushing air is created and heard as it caresses metal walls, flowing through openings of air and sound. The performance Ventilation, Clarinet, and Loops by Group ONO combines elements of classical and electronic music, directly referencing and utilizing one of the space’s features—the sound of the garage ventilation system. By playing repetitive clarinet sequences, recording them, and reproducing them live, a minimalist composition emerges that communicates with the empty garage space. This space, with its doors mostly closed, is traversed only by air currents in ventilation, whose fluidity becomes the subject of the performance’s sound. While the ventilation system over there churns smoke and breath through the walls, murmurs, currents, and air openings on this side create sound. After all, what is sound but vibration in the air?

Gallery

IMPRESSUM

Artists: Group ONO (Branimir Norac, Tin Dožić)
Text: Marija Kamber
Photography: Domagoj Hmura

Realization of the exhibition is financially supported by the City of Zagreb.

Biography

The ONO group is an experimental musical band of a nonpermanent cast. For the performance in Kamba Garage, members of the group are Branimir Norac and Tin Dožić. ONO group has so far had six concerts with different sets (Močvara, Greta Gallery, Z/KU-Berlin, SC Gallery – Concert for sleeping, MSU Zagreb).

Branimir Norac earned the title of academic clarinetist at the Music Academy in Zagreb. He is involved in composing post-minimalist music, theatre music and performs as a songwriter.

Tin Dožić is engaged in sound art, multimedia installation, radio and sound recording, has completed a MA study of New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and has participated in numerous performances and exhibitions in Croatia and abroad (V2_ lab for the Unstable Media Rotterdam, Showroom of Contemporary Sound, Sine Linea, Sound Art Incubator, CASS School of Art Architecture and Design London, Device Art Prague).