Calligraphy: Kaho Izumi
Bonnō is a 108 movement work written for the Bozzini String Quartet 2021-2022. Each movement explores a world within a single bow stroke.
Bonnō is the 108 wordly desires from Buddhist thoughts. In the musical work Bonnou, connections between sound, gestures, verbal and written language are made, as the performers play the kanji on their instrument. The piece is fairly long and quiet, but utmost intense, as the players perform the 108 movements and the silences between them.
“What is the nonvisual force, and how has it been rendered visual? The answer lies in the interplay of the brush and the surface, or, rather, in that which exists between them. If understood as a documenter of physical forces, paint functions to trace the line of flight of its applicator, as well as the force with which it has been applied onto canvas. The paint traces its trajectory and freezes it; proves that the collision has happened and documents its force, density and violence. I use the term “violence” because the momentary, microscopic space contained between the brush (and its thousands of brushes) and the surface (and its thousands of surfaces) is a highly chaotic, violent space-it is a catastrophe.”
-Timothy McCormack, on painting
From a concert in Tøyen Kirke, Oslo, Norway. Photo: Kristian Trana.
Video: Maya Wilhite-Hannisdal
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