Static

Static is a collaborative art work by visual artist Ilkka Pitkänen and composer, musician Ilari Edelmann. Static depicts the constant state of change in natural phenomena. The name of the work means immobile and unchanging as well as disturbance – especially in a radio or television signal – i.e. the so-called “snow screen”. Both the soundscape and the video shot in one take are static on a macro level, but on a micro level, the movement is never the same. The music is built around the repeating pulse of one note and the Phrygian mode. Like the visual imagery, the soundtrack does not repeat itself, but rather consists of subtle rhythmic and compositional changes.