This is a homage to Pendulum Music, a 1968 piece by minimalist composer Steve Reich. As Reich described it, the work was created “for fun” as an experiment driven by curiosity. It is both a phase piece and a process piece — a composition that runs autonomously once set in motion, allowing the composer to step away.

The time signals have a strict utilitarian purpose and are used as a reference to determine the time of day. Not only humans, but machines too, are sensitive to them. Coordinated Universal Time — an imposed time — splits space into time zones and divides days into slots for labor and leisure. A seemingly ordered and planned timing of the day bends the stream of life. It establishes hours through a hierarchy of choices we make throughout the day.

The installation is an 8-channel sound work, where time signals are subsequently interfered with children counting out rhymes. The time signals have a strict utilitarian purpose and are used as a reference to determine the time of day. Not only humans but machines too are sensitive to it.