Paul Frankhuijzen

Visual art

Echo's
Frames without skin and human soul, but still with their timeless connection of the collective memory.
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What inspired me:

During a museum visit I saw a harpsichord in a corner. It stood there like a soundless object with only its shell as an echo. I got the idea this instrument has gone through quite a few metamorphoses over the course of its history. The harpsichord from the 15th century developed after the piano in the 17th century, an instrument with a larger sound box and new strings, from which the grand piano emerged in the 19th century.
In the 20th century there were experiments with the sound of the piano, the prepared piano. The instrument lost its sound box and strings in the 21st century with the advent of the digital keyboard and ends up in a sampled sound for computer software at the end of the 21st century. rr
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At the same time, I heard through the open window, the public noise flowing in from outside. This moment inspired me to 'Echo's'. Nowadays just about everything is digitized, frozen data is arranged as objects, only public life is still an analogue in a continuum.
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'Echos' has a still pulsating effect in a ruin with open data of frozen elements. It is like a landscape on canvas with architectural lines of disappeared structures. Our skin and soul seem to disappear more and more into a sampled and mysterious algorithmic data. Frames without skin and human soul, yet with their timeless connection of the collective memory.
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From the sonata K87 b-minor for harpsichord by Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) I have used different fraces and processed them into a new item, but keeping the old data code in it. The last romantic, pianist Vladimir Horowitz, performed this work regularly. In his performance every note was a given in the whole. The lines in the work refer to remaining architectural lines of the museums themselves. The human bodies have disappeared, only the clothing is present as sheaths. But the spectator's fantasy reflects its spirit.

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Echo's (2021)
Duration:7:00

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Rebirth, a poetry of chance and change.
During the first days of covid-19, the pandemic seemed so far away in the Western world.
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But here too came the fate.  The general concept of time came to a standstill. People experienced the environment in which they lived differently. This sudden silence gave us an opportunity for change and opportunity.
The texture of 'Rebirth, a poetry of chance and change' consists of different elements. Visually there is a cornfield and its horizon. The stems rise and fall, giving us a sign of awareness of the eternal. It is also a source of nutrition for life. The empty seats is another element, asking who was sitting on it? Who can sit on it to reconnect each organism?
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The external ambient noises are both sounds that were heard in the previous period and during the pandemic. During the lockdown, the inaudible became audible, as it were, including a protest demonstration against nationalists, indicating that the sowing of unrest was already present before the pandemic.
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The music is inspired by the romantic pinnacle of chamber music, namely the first movement of Johannes Brahms clarinet quintet Op. 115 (1891). The theme here is being missed and the eternal fate of storm and urge. The search for peace and value.

This theme plays out throughout the course of 'Rebirth, a poetry of chance and change'.

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Rebirth (2023)
Duration:10:00

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Mouvement
It is not about the highlights of the cities and its associated culture, but its movement.
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Mouvement was created through a partnership based on the concept of Paul Frankhuijzen. His idea was to work together with artists from different disciplines to create the video installation Mouvement.
Concept music Paul Frankhuijzen, video Judith Leysner, text Florette Dijkstra, image The City One Minutes, Sandberg Institute Amsterdam, producer Axes jazzpower Eindhoven.


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Mouvement expresses and depicts the movements and tensions within a city. This is expressed in music, video and text. In the performance, each discipline stands on its own and forms part of the whole, as it is for the inhabitants of a city, who live their individual lives and contribute to the large, organic network. Mouvement does not reflect the cultural highlights, but ordinary life and its actions.

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Exhibition Mouvement:

Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven 2013
Stedelijk museum 's-Hertogenbosch 2013
Museum de Pont Tilburg 2013
Novembermusic festival 2013
Mouvement (2013)
Duration:11:00

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