The String Thing continues Heyse Ip and regiment’s collaborative exploration working on site specific and sound installations.
This sonic environment is in itself a machine that performs, staging for acts and actions that wish to move beyond the performer, trespassing an identifiable division of roles. For The String Thing they have drawn inspiration from a variety of fields, from Performance Studies and Philosophy, via Musique Concrète and the Theatre of the Absurd, to industrial music.

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Find a length of string and a space to string it across.
Are we pulling this thing, towards or away from us?
What is the limit you can push this thing you reckon?
Tightly. Or not tightly?
Too tight and the string might just snap and cut us.
Tension makes the sound audible.
Are you a good listener?
Now listen, this thing requires to listen.
Silence can be noisy.
A string strung tightly between two points in space is already a set of sounds sitting in silence.
And two strings are enough to make an ensamble.
Is this thing an instrument?
One may say it is almost an instrument.
Is this silence, tension?
Emptiness can also be tension.

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