MATEA ŠABIĆ SABLJIĆ

STOWAWAY'S MUSICAL SCORE 

or BLIND COMPOSITIONS  

OF TRAVEL SHORTS

BY AN IMAGINARY TRAVELER

2016./2017.

As  „imagined genre“ in the form of collection of travellers sketches that are translated in the letter for blinds ie. for „blind traveller“. „Transcripts“  of travellers sketches of „Blind Traveller“ are perforated with letter for blind people, and are to be wriggled through maschine from music boxes, where each leter concerning  position of its dots ( choreogra- phy of holes) on musical stave gets music notations ie. certain tones - translated to a sound. With this proces are appearing „blind compositions of travellers sketches of imagined travaller“ as collection of poetry in space installation  of graphic sign, sound, movement end text, in subtext of imagined voyage.

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IE. it is collection of poetry that is made of sketches of imagined voyage of blind traveller (paper strips with text), projection of groundplan of 3 cargo ships, and 3 music boxes machines . It is consisted of 33 texts of imagined blind traveller that are written  with letters for blinds - for „blind traveller“ (Braill letter).. ( Playing with metaphore of blind traveller as someone who travels illegal, „hidden somewhere in the dark“. In Croatian language for stowaway  is used frase „Blind Traveller“  ( Blind - like that the passenger or traveller is the one who can not see, he can not see wher he is going). Refearing on that blindes with poet approach I m writing with letters of blind man, of one who can not see .. ) As the „blind letters“ ( from Braill letters) are consisted of  combination of 6 dots ( 2 colu- mns of 3),I put them on music stave treating them as notes. With that procedure every letter - with act of wriggleing through music box machine , ie. mini vergl.. got its sound. So, text is been read with and from the sound as musical composition, by „poetry machines“ so, text is been read with and from the sound as musical composition, by „poetry machines“ that are performing movement, lumino-cinetic, light   movement of letters ie. signs, ie. mobile poems, ambient ....

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Technical preparation of letters  is  performed in measures and ratios that were needed to get sound on music box machine, ie. for instrument to function. On each strip is one poem ie. composition. They are in average 2m long. with perforated dots that became holes - touchable dots that by their postion on the strip trigger sound. Each letter got its tone, and when visitor would remember them, he would read letters, words, meanings, poems, collection - by the tones : without speach. Music boxes machines as poets machines for reading - decoding of poetry without spoken articulation, ie. through translation of Latin letter into letter for blinds into note letters into tone articulattion. Work is treated as trptych. It is consisted from projection of groundplan of 3 cargoships on whose stern are installed 3 music box maschines. On the side are 33 travellers texts of „blind traveller“. Visitor chooses poem and wringles it through „poet machine for reading-de/coding“. With parallel activity of 3 visitors on 3 instruments in 3 projections of cargo ships we are getting partiture of random combination of mutual interweaving of letters, texts, tones, and rythms „tone sailing“ .