[mju: t]
Performance/Video Documentation. Impossible Community exhibition 2011 / MMI Gogolev Boulevard. Several musicians are jointly improvising, but the audience does not hear the result of their efforts. It feels like someone turned off the sound or the audience was deaf. Each instrument is dissected in such a way that it is impossible to extract a musical sound from it (the saxophone arm is missing the cane, the electrical tools are not connected to the power source, and there is no amplifier). However, participants [mju: t] continue, as envisaged by the rules of jamming, collective improvisation, to «play» in continuous communication with each other, including through gestures, views, mimics, as if everything was happening on a concert set with full technical equipment. But they really hear each other and play the music that comes from within the interaction of their professional community.
Konstantin Ager is an alt saxophone, Jana Aksenova is a terminwax, Maxim Gurin is a keyboard.
The audience is free to choose — or simply to watch the performance by limiting itself to «off» sound, or to try to activate its ideal inner music by engaging in a mental emotional and sound communication with musicians. The project [mju: t] exists in spite of formal impossibility and shows that internal music has no limitations, it has no stereotypes, lives on its own, does not need to be evaluated and is therefore as free as possible.
It was repeated by the International Festival for Creative Music Perspectives, Sweden, 2012 and the Dom Club, Moscow, 2015.
