Zin Tuig (Sense Machine)

ZinTuig (Sense Machine) is a composition for Electric Guitar with live electronics and video images created for the Turkish/Dutch jazz virtuoso Timuçin Sahin. The piece takes advantage of the specific talents of Sahin, who plays a unique doubleneck 7-string fretless electric guitar. The video images portray a startling physical manifestation, which forces the viewer to question whether they are seeing something real or something which has been rendered digitally.

René Descartes was first to point out the special relationship that exists between our mind and body: if I were to lose my arms or legs I would still be "me", but it is illogical to believe the same is true of my mind. And considering that every few years all the cells in my body are replaced with new ones, how can it be that I still consider myself to be the same "me" as ten years ago?
This is why images of people are so fascinating -- they are representations of both the somatic and transcendental elements of existence. The pope Innocent X was startled when he saw his own image in Velazquez' painting: "it is too real!" he shouted. Picasso later showed us that no amount of realism can reflect the full being of a person. Clearly we are more than what we see, but what that actually is, is hard to describe.

This project is supported by the Netherlands Fund for Performing Arts+

Music: Marcel Wierckx
Hands: Tarik Barri
Hands Choreographed by: Sabine Linz

Category:

Music

Tags:

• guitar
• hands
• fingers
• senses
• teaser
• guitar solo
• shred

[katyarose]

brilliant, & great playing