Eduardo Moguillansky — Resilienztraining

Resilience is the euphemistic title for the bisected activism of those who are defeated by life. It comprises what remains for those who are stuck, on a permanent basis, in a position of precarity – their strategy of somehow coping with the situation until finally they reach a point where “nothing goes” any more.

In Resilienztraining, the reaction of a group of record players to various offensive strategies is being measured. The recordings are of sinus waves. Increased pressure on the turntable slows down its rotary speed. Well, every intervention creates a certain resistance, which is specific to the exerted pressure and to the dispositive itself. Next, the instruments reproduce the same sound.as on the record. Between original sound and transposition, beats are created which take the form of an acoustic signature of a system under stress.

If the frequency of the interference and the dynamic are much increased, the brain re-encodes this overstimulation as difference tones – our sense of hearing sings along.

The piece is constructed in the shape of several attempts at a continuing expansion. It could also go further. The resilient subject doesn’t give up hope.
—Eduardo Moguillansky, 2018