Jingle
Speaker & photo-electric sensor installed adjacent to gallery entrance, audio with Morten Norbye Halvorsen & local farmer or accountant
2016–ongoing
Production image: recording farmer José Prates, Evora, Portugal, 2017
A series inspired by melodies used for interludes in American sitcoms, that connote scenic transition. The short musical compositions are activated by sensor upon entry and egress to cumulatively broadcast the arrival and departure of each visitor to the exhibition.
Edition:
Jingles ('Grazer Kunstverein, spring, summer, autumn, winter'), 2017–2020
Chronology:
Evans first asks after a host’s economic stability. If the host gallery’s financial situation is stable, a local livestock farmer is asked to mimic a non-specific percussive phrase, if it is unstable, an accountant is asked to do the same. A bass-line is then added and the Norwegian artist/composer Morten Norbye Halvorsen produces a composite from the recordings from which the jingle is made.
Vinyl LP published by Grazer Kunstverein
Chris Evans & Morten Norbye Halvorsen
12” vinyl LP in 6 signed editions of 25 copies each, with a series of silkscreened covers. This album is available for 30 euros via Grazerkunstverein.Bandcamp.com or all six colors for 150 euros available from Grazer Kunstverein at office[at]grazerkunstverein.org
Jingle (‘Coral what’ Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf), 2021
Speaker installed next to entrance, photo-electric sensor. audio with Morten Norbye Halvorsen & local accountant, Georg Gramman
Jingle (‘Spatial Bias’ Lesage, Brussels), 2021
Speaker installed next to entrance, photo-electric sensor. audio with Morten Norbye Halvorsen & local accountant, Carolyn Van Der Donckt
Jingle (‘Village Lawyer’, Markus Luettgen, Dusseldorf), 2019
Speaker installed next to entrance, photo-electric sensor. audio with Morten Norbye Halvorsen & local farmer, Heinz Willem Tolkes
Jingle (Hong Gah Museum, Taipei), 2019
Speaker installed next to entrance, photo-electric sensor. audio with Morten Norbye Halvorsen & local farmer, Yao Liang-Yi
Jingle ('Village Lawyer', CAN Centre d'Art, Neuchâtel), 2018
Speaker installed next to entrance, photo-electric sensor. audio with Morten Norbye Halvorsen & local farmer, Edouard Clottu
Jingle ('Bureau of Unspecified Services' SALT Galata, Istanbul), 2018
Speaker installed next to entrance, photo-electric sensor. audio with Morten Norbye Halvorsen & local farmer, Soner
Jingle (Para Site, Hong Kong), 2017
Speaker installed next to entrance, photo-electric sensor. audio with Morten Norbye Halvorsen & local farmer, Karen ____
Jingle ('Good luck with your natural, combined, attractive and truthful attempts in two exhibitions', Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Evora), 2017
Speaker installed next to entrance, photo-electric sensor. audio with Morten Norbye Halvorsen & local farmer, José Prates
Jingle ('The Oslo Museum of Contemporary Art', Kunsthalle Oslo), 2017
Speaker installed next to entrance, photo-electric sensor. audio with Morten Norbye Halvorsen & accountant, Sigvald Høye
Jingles ('Grazer Kunstverein, spring, summer, autumn, winter'), 2017–2020
Six speakers installed next to the six entrances of Grazer Kunstverein, photo-electric sensor. audio with Morten Norbye Halvorsen