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By Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir
Remix by Doreen Kutzke
Animation in collaboration with Cormac Walsh
Vocalists from the Hrynjandi Choir in Reykjavik
Rats make sixteen different sounds to express happiness in a frequency undetectable by the human ear. They name each other and play social games according to rules which they express with sounds, as their existence is mostly lived in darkness. Hauksdóttir created a score for human voices based on the rats’ social dynamics, sonographic images* of rat sounds and human phonetics, thus assembling the Rat Choir.
The Reykjavik based choir Hrynjandi decoded the voices of the rats in Kjarvalsstaðir, Reykjavik Art Museum, as a live performance for the premiere in 2020.
Composer Doreen Kutzke reimagined the composition in 2021 and created the remix. The drawings have been specially animated for the Remix in collaboration with Cormac Walsh, with the drawings dancing and jumping in step with the music for the display at Gallery Happy Hour.
*The sonographic images that form the base of the original composition come from lab rats from the University of Lethbridge, the lab of Professor Sergio Pellis (Animal behaviour and behavioural neuroscience).
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