MADE IN CYLAND

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.

This work pays tribute to the spirit of early musical experimentation, which profoundly influenced subsequent developments and continues to inspire artists working at the intersection of sound and installation art.

In this version, the movement of a double pendulum is employed: its lower element is a shotgun microphone. By chance alone, the microphone encounters a speaker during the pendulum’s unpredictable trajectory. These fleeting moments of contact generate chaotic bursts of feedback — a sonified encounter shaped by dynamics invisible to the naked eye.