介绍:
Traditional composers write their music on paper. Modern musicians compose using computer programs. Although both of these methods of making music are used by Italian-French musician Jacopo Baboni Schilingi, he also composes his music by drawing notes and line on the body of human beings.
"In 2007, it started like a game with some friends. I started writing music on the neck, on the face, and on the arm. One of my main sources of inspiration is the link with people. Writing on the skin of men and women creates a very close connection (with them)."
The exhibition, Body Scores, brings together music and photography. The lines, notes, clefs and dots are written on the skin of real life human beings. Schilingi says the process requires a lot of concentration.
"Body Score is, first of all, a necessity for me to be in the present. And when you write music on a person that you don't know, often you have pay for it. First idea is that you cannot correct so you have to be as much as possible concentrated on what you are doing. Second, you are writing on living people. To me, it's a way of being in the present because they breathe with you and the breathing always brings you back to the present."
The music scores look like Chinese calligraphy and they are authentic compositions written by the composer Jacopo Baboni Schilingi. The pictures of his past works display scores that have already played in concerts and creations to be performed in upcoming events. In Schilingi's own words, these are all real scores on a real body, captured through photographs.
In Beijing, he is working with photographer Philippe Bouvet. On the floor of La Plantation art gallery in Hegezhuang Village in Beijing's Chaoyang district, Schilingi is hard at work composing. He has already painted his work on several Chinese models and the photos taken by Bouvet will be exhibited at this location in October. Schilingi explains what the visitors will see.
"The idea is when you approach the picture, thanks to some infrared sensors, the music written on the picture comes out from some loudspeakers. So it's an interactive installation."
Similar to Chinese calligraphy, the scores are written in ink and like ink, they are destined to disappear. The only way of recording and saving these images is through the medium of photography. In addition to allow the public to see how a composer composes music, the Body Scores project also reveals an implied intimacy between composer and the score.
But is writing on skin any different than writing on paper?
"The skin of each of us is different so the quality of the writing depends on the person I'm in front of. If the person in front of me is inexpressive, the music I'm writing would be different. So generally, it's not a good working session. On the contrary, when you write on people who are generous, automatically, there is a connection. And the quality of the music I'm writing is different."
Schilingi says although the photos showing music notes drawn on people looks like art pieces, he would still like visitors to his exhibition to focus on the music.
"What I want is not just people looking at the score, I want to them to listen to my music and I want to people to like or discuss about my music."
But how would music composed on a human body sound? Here's Schilingi's opinion.
"When you listen to my music, the quality is there. To ensure the quality, twice a week, I would write for 10 hours."
Ultimately, the judges are the audiences.
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