Music comes with light, inspired by the environment, the ambition of its listener. The multitudes of one or many worlds open up before us, from Abony to Milan, from the banks of the river Danube to Lake Titicaca. Whether you lock yourself out or enter in – You decide.
Christmas biscuit boxes, tea boxes, a small Globus can, and all sorts of things of this kind, turned into tower-like constructions that constitute the orchestra, while the solar battery is the conductor, and the strings, applied in a refined manner at various points, insure the melody.
What we usually hear is not music, but the monotonous sound of the spheres, which taken up by our souls turns into a kind of intermediary magic, then to emerge in the end as a concrete melody. Tunes composed of the sounds of the cosmic beat of the heart make the space resonate off either one, or more of the planets. The symphonic orchestra is under the control of the audience since sources of light may be manipulated if so wished. Every sculpture above which you turn on the light, you also sound a little chamber orchestra.
Bálint Bori was a member of the INDIGO group of artists in the '70s and the '80s, which is also known for its famous member Miklós Erdély. His sound installations are an extension of the openness to the sensitivity of existence, as dictated by the INDIGO poetics.
What we have here is a special form of art installation and sound-environment; that is, an aural definition of space. Bori created a dadaist ‘ready-made’ that can be taken for nothing but a challenge to find the “solution to an audio-visual puzzle.” This offers a wide range of possible experiences. Creating an aesthetically interesting, restructured world of emotions and sensation out of so called useless objects is an idea with a long history in art.
It was Marcel Duchamp, who in 1913 introduced the idea of the ‘ready-made’ and formulated the flexible rules of the game in its creation: every object can be placed in a new context, so to acquire a new meaning. This is a kind of poetry realised with objects. The magic of awakening mystical intuition and metaphysical sensitivity is manifest in this initiative taken to re-group ready-made objects whose essential meaning has been re-evaluated. Construction, reconstruction and deconstruction, the great inventions of the '10s and '20s of the last century acquire a new spirit in these works.
Bálint Bori uses solar energy to strike sound on the guitar strings installed in the metal boxes. The strings resonate, and the walls of the boxes echo the melody to a lamp switched on, or beams of sunlight. The use of sunlight or artificial light as driving force and creative element is one of the most beautiful components of this series of works that are built on tradition. The art works we know from the ancient world of Mexico, Egypt and others, that manipulate light come to mind. These twelve chime boxes revolve like the twelve planets in the Solar system.
