Introduction
Louis Ucciani & Yvan Etienne
You can't believe your eyes and ears anymore
Rolf Sachsse
In search of unexpected beauty, as the outcome of concept, procedure and intuition
Jaap Bremer
Now Here
Paul Kuypers
Open systems, aesthetic
implications of the work
of Paul Panhuysen
Helga de la Motte
A canary will always be the best canary that he can be
René van Peer
Paul Panhuysen and the art of sound
Rahma Khazam
Chronologies
Biblio-discography
Colophon
Small Samples, Many Pieces (audio CD)
1. BLAAK 1977. 3'03
A design based on Fibonacci numbers, made for a long wall
in a subway station Rotterdam, is in this piece changed into
a musical score. The musician is Tibor Szemzö playing a bass recorder (1985).
2. CASIO SYMPHONY 1978. 3'00
Sample of a long composition automatically and simultaneously performed by 6 Casio VL-Tone VL-1 instruments.
3. EAST INDIAN CALYPSO 1983. 3'54
Improvisation by the Maciunas Ensemble: Paul Panhuysen
(piano and voice), Jan van Riet, Remko Scha
4. AUTOMATIC UKELELE ORCHESTRA 1986. 2'28
Galerie Gianozzo Berlin (g), Automatic performance of a sound sculpture, made of 6 ukeleles and 2 electromotors with long
nylon bands.
5. LOUISIANA PURCHASE 1987. 2'51
Improvisation by the Duo Geloso:
Arnold Dreyblatt (violin)
and Paul Panhuysen (accordeon).
6. REQUIEM FOR AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER 1987. 2'32
Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde (dk). Automatic performance of a sound sculpture, made of 4 French army organs, used on the battlefields in the second world war. Recorded in 1995 by Lennart.
7. MAGIC STICKS 1988. 2'07
Skulpturen Museum Glaskasten, Marl (g). Solo improvisation
by Paul Panhuysen on an acoustical long string installation against a resonating wooden wall. Installation made by Panhuysen
and Johan Goedhart.
8. TWO SUSPENDED GRAND PIANOS 1990. 3'31
The National Building Museum, the former Old Pension Building, Washington dc (usa). In this immense indoor piazza Panhuysen and Goedhart made a large long string installation with two grand pianos hovering in the air. The sound sample is taken from
an improvised concert by Paul Panhuysen, Johan Goedhart,
Douglas Quin, Alberto Gaitan (long strings) and Rogelio Maxwell (cello) and Ramell Moor (violin). Recording Douglas Quin.
9. SUGAR SUGAR 1990. 2'14
Theater Fletch Bizzel, Dortmund (g).
Performance on an installation with paper loudspeakers
and popcorn baked by Paul Panhuysen and Peter ten Lohuis.
10. SINGING THE WORLD INTO EXISTENCE 1991. 4'03
PS1 Museum, New York (usa). Improvisation on a long string installation in his exhibition by Paul Panhuysen and the Kanary Grand Band. Recording:
Phill Niblock.
11. CRICKET CONCERT 1991. 1'37
Stroomhuis Neerijnen (nl). In this concert Panhuysen manipulated and modified with effect pedals the sounds produced by crickets. Recording: Frank Donkersgoed
12. A SMALL LONG STRING INSTALLATION 1993. 3'01
Mills College for Contemporary Music (usa). An improvised concert on a small long string installation by Paul Panhuysen.
Recording: John Bishop.
13. MACHINERY OF THE MIND 1993. 2'29
Zur Zeit, Kunsthalle Krems (a). An automatic sound installation with 8 e-guitars, hovering in the air, played by electro-motors
and activated by motion-sensors.
14. A MECHANICAL LONG STRINGED GUITAR
BIG BAND 1993. 2'23
NIPAF Festival. Museum of Modern Art, Nagano (J). An automatic installation of 24 E-guitars in a concert by Paul Panhuysen
15. KANARY GRAND BAND FOR HUMAN EARS
AND ON HUMAN SPEED 1994. 3'00
A recording of birdsong, 25 times slowed down in speed and pitch. Published in the magazine MusicWorks nr. 59 Toronto (can).
16. BIRDS ORCHESTRA
OF CHESTER COUNTY 1994. 2'03
Yellow Springs Institute, Creekwood (USA). Recording of 25 parakeets in an aviary designed by the artist with homemade singing and contact microphones. Some other birds in the park around the birdhouse respond.
17. A MECHANICAL BIG BAND FOR ACOUSTICAL
STRING INSTRUMENTS 1995. 3'06
Warsaw Autumn. Museum Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (pl).
A sound sculpture, consisting of a collection of old acoustical string instruments, automatically played by dc electro motors with rubber bands, switched on with motion sensors by the passing visitors. Recording: Christoph Knittel.
18. MOCKING BIRDS 1 1995. 1'38
Composition, following the structure of the song of European mocking birds and of modified series of Fibonacci numbers.
The voice is taken from a record by the musicologist Jaap Kunst.
A radioplay commissioned by ncrv, a Dutch radio station.
19. MOCKING BIRDS 2 1995. 1'38
Composition, following the same score as the piece on track 18.
In this piece instead of the voice of Jaap Kunst samples
of birdsong are used.
20. THE BIRDS AVIARY
OF HET APOLLOHUIS 1995. 2'00
Recording of the birds aviary in Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven (nl). With homemade singing and contact microphones.
21. MECHANICAL BIG BAND
OF ACOUSTICAL INSTRUMENTS 1995. 3'04
NowHere Festival, Schellens Factory Eindhoven (nl).
Automatic orchestra of acoustical string and percussion instruments. Recording: René Adriaans
22. BIRDS IN CLOSE HARMONY 1996. 3'02
Confort Moderne, Poitiers (f). Performance on a long string installation with 12 monochords by birds singing in an aviary.
23. SINGING THE WORLD INTO EXISTENCE 1996. 3'02
Sonambiente. Ehemaliges Postfuhramt, Berlin (d).
Three automatic variations on sound art works with birds.
Recording: Frank van Donkersgoed
24. AIDA AND THE MISTAKES 1996. 3'53
Galvano recording of a multilayered piano work (multiplier music) performed by Paul Panhuysen
25. TOM AND JERRY 1997. 4'00
A score published in Four Hands, Music for two Pianists
by Red House Editions, Australia.
Computer performance: Leon van Noorden. This composition
is devoted to Tom Johnson and
Jerry Hunt.
26. LE VENT DU NORD 2002. 5'10
Kling Klang Festival, Lille (f). Recording of a large outdoor, percussive long string installation, played by the wind.
